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Pretty sure it is. From a battery pull, phone will not power up. After pressing the power button the phone will vibrate once after a few seconds, but nothing else. Attempting to boot into the bootloader (power+volume down) does absolutely nothing. Any suggestions?
Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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Pull the battery then plug it into the charger and let it charge for about an hour then try to turn it on.
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It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.
misery in motion said:
It's not due to a drained/dead battery. I should have mentioned I already ruled that out. I did just that, plus tested with a spare battery. No change.
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Dang sorry to hear it misery. What exactly did you do to brick it, if you dont mind me asking.
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I'm happy to report I've successfully unbricked my phone. For those curious about the actions I took, continue reading.
First off, what caused my phone to behave the way it did is beyond me. I had a hunch the phone was powering up and booting though as it was giving me that vibrate.
Here's what I did. Pulled the battery and let it sit for 5 min. Reinserted the battery and connected the phone to my computer. It gave me the charge indicator LED. I pressed the power button and let sit for about another 5 minutes. No indication from the phone that anything was happening mind you.
I ran a RUU to see if it saw the phone. Low and behold it did. The phone still appeared dead. I let the RUU run and do it's thing. After completion my phone successfully rebooted and loaded up just fine.
Although I do not know what caused the anomaly, I suspect firmware corruption/malfunction.
Anyway, all seems to be well now.
*phew*
I just received my T-Mobile galaxy S2 an hour ago, no root... completely stock.
I powered it down and tried to turn it back on... but the screen is just black nothing will bring it back.
tried volume + power to get into recovery... nothing
is this thing dead? or am i missing a hard reset?
Help?
dills84 said:
I just received my T-Mobile galaxy S2 an hour ago, no root... completely stock.
I powered it down and tried to turn it back on... but the screen is just black nothing will bring it back.
tried volume + power to get into recovery... nothing
is this thing dead? or am i missing a hard reset?
Help?
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Take the battery out for 2 minutes. put it back in. Do not turn it on. Then plug it into the charger for 10 minutes and then power it on. Might sound like joke but I'm dead serious.
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Its possible the things battery just died. If its completely dead it wont do anything I've scared myself like this once as well. If this does not work try download mode. The fact alone its not rooted tells me it might just need some more charging time.
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Take the battery out for 2 minutes. put it back in. Do not turn it on. Then plug it into the charger for 10 minutes and then power it on. Might sound like joke but I'm dead serious.
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Its possible the things battery just died. If its completely dead it wont do anything I've scared myself like this once as well. If this does not work try download mode. The fact alone its not rooted tells me it might just need some more charging time.
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Ill give it a shot. Thanks!
Still no luck... what a dissapointment.
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Still no luck... what a dissapointment.
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What about download mode? Maybe the thing wanted a custom ROM from the get go lol
No download mode either. Doesn't even show the green charging battery.
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No download mode either. Doesn't even show the green charging battery.
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Can ADB recognize it?
No adb... seems like there's no power at all. I appreciate your recommendations!
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does it vibrate? that should be the key factor
Teo032 said:
does it vibrate? that should be the key factor
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it literally does nothing... just stays black. no green battery while charging... nothing hah. Guess i got a lemon.. wellp... good by tmobile... hello galaxy nexus.
My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.
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My wife is on vacation driving down to MS (from WV) and her phone died.
She was talking on it and co-pilot was running and then the phone shut off.
She couldn't reboot it, it would boot, then try and reboot and make a vibrate pattern like "beeeeeeppp beep beep" repeatedly and never boot. I told her (on the phone) that it might be that her battery was just dead.
So i had her turn the phone off and then put it on the charger.
Well, it's 10 hours later on a charge and the same thing is happening. She can't boot, she can't get into recovery, when she does the 3 finger salute the same thing happens....the vibration pattern.
She's been running aristodemos without problems up until now.
What do you think could be the problem? Battery? Charging port dead?
She said she's going to find an AT&T store while she's down there and tell them that her phone won't charge...could they charge her battery for her.
What do you think? Should we wait until she's back here and just put my battery in the phone? I ask because I don't want them to figure out that she's rooted and not help her.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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Sounds like what happened to my cousin's Note. I tried to root it and it did 3 beeps and boot loop. It might need recovery. If a nandroid is available on her phone then she needs to restore it if possible. If not, recovery via Kies is the next option. Unfortunately, Kies wipes everything.
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She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.
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She can't get to recovery so how is she going to get to a nandroid backup?
How could she use kies if the phone won't even boot? Not understanding.
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Sorry, I missed that somehow. A new battery might be worth a shot. Try yours when she gets back. AT&T will get another battery and see if it works.
It sounds more like a hardbrick. I hope it's not.
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Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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Do you know if she can get into download mode?
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I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?
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I don't think so...I'm not sure why but when she tries, nothing happens. I'm coaching her remotely so It could be that she's just not doing it right or that the battery won't even get her to that point....i'm not sure why but at this point, she can't.
If she could...we'd be in good shape, I'd have her wipe the phone and start over.
I'm not sure whether I should tell her to hold off until she gets home to try my battery or go to the ATT store...I'd hate for them to put a new battery in and have it do something that shows that it's running a leaked rom and rooted....though I'm not sure what they'd do.
Would they just tell her to go away or would they note it on the account like we were somehow not entitled to warranty assistance even if we put it back to stock?
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They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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They might report it, but when I had a hardbrick on my Atrix, I took it there. They didn't report it. If all else fails, report it lost and get another one. The best way to know is wait for her to get back.
Does the phone even turn on for a split second?
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It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.
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It turns on but tries to boot....black screen and vibrations is all that happens. When that has happened to my phone I just recovered it so I'm not sure why hers isn't recoverable...operator error or it's just bricked.
I guess I'll just tell her to wait until she gets back unless someone has a better idea.
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If it turns on even for a second there might be a good chance to save it. Best thing to do is to wait. You can probably recover it using odin. My cousin's Note did that too, but he got lucky. I managed to fix it using Kies. I hope it works out.
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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You can get 2 batteries and charger for $24. It's on Amazon
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escocrx said:
I went camping and my battery drained all the way to 0v. Had the same symptoms. I bought the charger with battery kit from samsung for 30 bux. Fixed it and fixed the original dead battery. The phone wouldnt charge the dead battery but the external stand alone charger did.
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Are you saying that your phone won't charge now? You have to take the battery out? Or are you saying that once you got it above 0v then you were back to normal?
OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.
The phone was unable to charge it. The stand alone battery charger could. I just dont let it go zero anymore
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OK.....situation solved!
Here is what happened:
She was using Co-Pilot and talking on the phone with the phone plugged into the charging jack in the car. It wasn't charging fast enough to keep up with usage, so it went dead dead dead.
So after she hooked it up to the charger...it still didnt' charge fast enough to get enough charge in the phone to enter recovery.
She got to the motel, plugged it in and left it overnight. Rebooted into recovery this morning and did a factory wipe and all is well.
Thanks for the help guys.
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Good to hear. Keep a spare battery as back up I guess.
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Guys im having an issue with my week old s3...my battery power hit 0 percent and phone turned off and now when i plug it in it wont turn on. It will give me the little battery icon for less than a second before shutting off. I am getting no response from the phone and dont know what to do. I tried volume+ up and volume +down to no avail. Im pretty irritated at this point and need some insight. Have tried diffrent chargers and they all give me battery icon before shutting of.
What room are you on?
Have you tried just letting it charge and sit there
When my s3 but zero I plugged it in
Didn't lead power till like 5 min afterwards and it worked fine
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gtuansdiamm said:
What room are you on?
Have you tried just letting it charge and sit there
When my s3 but zero I plugged it in
Didn't lead power till like 5 min afterwards and it worked fine
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Im on freegs3 latest.... It wont charge or anything...its 4am here and this just happened after i was in the middle of making some random homescreen edits. Hit 0 and when i plugged it in it would just be unresponsive. I dont even know if its charging but its been plugged it for well over 5 minutes i believe. Could undervolting have anything to do? I just dont have the time to go to the sprint store and need phone for work.
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Having the exact same problem on my phone as well running FreeGS3 v3.0 and Ktoonz kernel.
This is how I fixed mine.
Plug it in and get it to show the empty battery with a circle in it. Once you see that plug it in and leave it alone for a while at least five minutes, yes the battery sign should only stay for a second. It should just go black screen no charging light.*After five minutes or so unplug it, pull the battery, and put it back in leave the phone unplugged and hold the power button a while. Some times they act weird when they dieThis is how I fixed mine.
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Guys im having an issue with my week old s3...my battery power hit 0 percent and phone turned off and now when i plug it in it wont turn on. It will give me the little battery icon for less than a second before shutting off. I am getting no response from the phone and dont know what to do. I tried volume+ up and volume +down to no avail. Im pretty irritated at this point and need some insight. Have tried diffrent chargers and they all give me battery icon before shutting of.
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When you plug it in, and see the icon, let it go for on charge for about 10s, unplug the usb, then hold the power button and see if it turns on then.
Mine will be in my pocket and won't respond like it is off. I have to hold the power button for 10seconds and it will come back on This is only happening shortly after a full charge. FreeGS3 Rom.
So is this a rom issue?
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This is how I fixed mine.
Plug it in and get it to show the empty battery with a circle in it. Once you see that plug it in and leave it alone for a while at least five minutes, yes the battery sign should only stay for a second. It should just go black screen no charging light.*After five minutes or so unplug it, pull the battery, and put it back in leave the phone unplugged and hold the power button a while. Some times they act weird when they dieThis is how I fixed mine.
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And i can confirm this fix worked for me. Thanks a ton friend. I appreciate everyone's help on this little weird issue.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=35987091#post35987091
I made a thread because I was having the exact same problem. Click on the link I attached in my first post. It's from the T-Mobile GS3 because they are having the same issue. The last post said flashing back to stock fixed the problem.
Just ran into this issue yesterday. I threw the battery into a standalone Anker charger for a while to get some juice back, and the phone powered up and charged fine from there.
I'm also on FreeGS3/ktoonsez.
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Borrow a friends battery and switch roms
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Also had this issue with ktoonz's kernel and freegs3. Went back to stock kernel and it's fine. I ended up using a friend's phone to get battery to charge.
So, first thing in the morning just pulled it off the charger with 100% battery. There I was sitting on the stool browsing my phone, as usual, when suddenly BLACK SCREEN... Pushed power button... nothing... pulled battery, held power button.... nothing.... plugged into charger, held power button... nothing... Pretty sure my phone just died. It was running 100% stock, without any rooting... Has this happened to anyone else???
EDIT: Also tried to plug it into my computer to see if i could access USB storage... nothing happens...
EDIT2: Went to Tmobile store, got it replaced... guy said this is the first one he has seen do that...
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So, first thing in the morning just pulled it off the charger with 100% battery. There I was sitting on the stool browsing my phone, as usual, when suddenly BLACK SCREEN... Pushed power button... nothing... pulled battery, held power button.... nothing.... plugged into charger, held power button... nothing... Pretty sure my phone just died. It was running 100% stock, without any rooting... Has this happened to anyone else???
EDIT: Also tried to plug it into my computer to see if i could access USB storage... nothing happens...
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Damn. What'd you eat for dinner?
Anthony820 said:
Damn. What'd you eat for dinner?
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Haha, it WAS very spicy food.
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Haha, it WAS very spicy food.
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have you tried holding down the lock and home buttons for 30 seconds? And the lock alone for 30 seconds?
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So, first thing in the morning just pulled it off the charger with 100% battery. There I was sitting on the stool browsing my phone, as usual, when suddenly BLACK SCREEN... Pushed power button... nothing... pulled battery, held power button.... nothing.... plugged into charger, held power button... nothing... Pretty sure my phone just died. It was running 100% stock, without any rooting... Has this happened to anyone else???
EDIT: Also tried to plug it into my computer to see if i could access USB storage... nothing happens...
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And I thought I was crazy. Mine did the same thing yesterday. I tried everything before taking it in for an exchange. The new one works now.
aooga said:
And I thought I was crazy. Mine did the same thing yesterday. I tried everything before taking it in for an exchange. The new one works now.
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Lets hope this isn't a common thing...
I remember this type of thing was happening to S3s back in the day.
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Reasons like this are why i am waiting to root mine...hoping a work around will be found, but ill prlly give in around christmas if it is deemed impossible.
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Lets hope this isn't a common thing...
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Well the rep at the store had one himself and he said that he has no problems with it (of course). Now my replacement has the crooked home button issue. I hate this. But at least the phone turns on
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have you tried holding down the lock and home buttons for 30 seconds? And the lock alone for 30 seconds?
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Just happened to me!! WTF ughhh back to t-mobile i go. I had my screen freeze then turned black, pulled battery then held power turned back on, then happened again, now it's completely dead.
Mine has freezed 3 or 4 times but has recovered by itself. I can't even reboot cause it's frozen. Wth, I'm stock not rooted.
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Just happened to me!! WTF ughhh back to t-mobile i go. I had my screen freeze then turned black, pulled battery then held power turned back on, then happened again, now it's completely dead.
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Uh oh. This isn't good.
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Uh oh. This isn't good.
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Yeah not good at all. All happening around the same time frame as well, weird.
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Yeah not good at all. All happening around the same time frame as well, weird.
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I'm on my 4th unit now. I think the reps at the store are getting suspicious.
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ZombieSixShot said:
Reasons like this are why i am waiting to root mine...hoping a work around will be found, but ill prlly give in around christmas if it is deemed impossible.
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Maybe that's why you SHOULD root and or get off the stock ROM. So far, it all looks like its happening to stock phones, unfortunately.
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Maybe that's why you SHOULD root and or get off the stock ROM. So far, it all looks like its happening to stock phones, unfortunately.
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Thats just dumb. No offense
If there is a problem after you root, you're done. The Knox flag will be permanently (at least until someone figures out how) set to 0x1.
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Thats just dumb. No offense
If there is a problem after you root, you're done. The Knox flag will be permanently (at least until someone figures out how) set to 0x1.
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Im rooted but if they cant turn on phone how would they know lol
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Im rooted but if they cant turn on phone how would they know lol
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Well yeah, but I meant if the phone did turn on, then its incredibly easy for them to check. It even says "Warranty Void: 0x1".
EDIT: Hey, its my 1000th post. Yay me.
I'm in the UK and this thing is freezing really bad. I'm hoping it survives this trip without the black screen of death.
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So, first thing in the morning just pulled it off the charger with 100% battery. There I was sitting on the stool browsing my phone, as usual, when suddenly BLACK SCREEN... Pushed power button... nothing... pulled battery, held power button.... nothing.... plugged into charger, held power button... nothing... Pretty sure my phone just died. It was running 100% stock, without any rooting... Has this happened to anyone else???
EDIT: Also tried to plug it into my computer to see if i could access USB storage... nothing happens...
EDIT2: Went to Tmobile store, got it replaced... guy said this is the first one he has seen do that...
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This has happened to me several times on my Note 2. The only remedy I could come up with was to play music while I slept since I charge my phone overnight while I sleep
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