Phone shutting off - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

Anyone know what could be causing my phone to just shut off randomly. It's been doing it heavily the past few days.
Ahh should have put this in Q&A sorry wasn't thinking.
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Are you stock/unrooted? Stock/rooted? Custom Rom?

Morghan said:
Anyone know what could be causing my phone to just shut off randomly. It's been doing it heavily the past few days.
Ahh should have put this in Q&A sorry wasn't thinking.
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What custom ROM are you running, if one at all?

Rooted and custom rom. It doesn't matter what ROM I'm using either. Does it for all.
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Morghan said:
Rooted and custom rom. It doesn't matter what ROM I'm using either. Does it for all.
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Of course it does! The rom, the kernel, any tweak apps your running, regular apps... Lots of things can be responsible. Since no one here has your device in their hand it's very difficult to assist you without you providing as much information as possible. Your asking for help, you have a problem not the ones trying to help you. So do yourself a favor and give the information requested, unless you like your phone re booting constantly.
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I had this issue once actually, lay your battery on a flat table, does it lay totally flat or does it have a little wobble?

I meant that it does this for every rom I'm on.
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badhabits727 said:
I had this issue once actually, lay your battery on a flat table, does it lay totally flat or does it have a little wobble?
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I'll find out. I've also tried two different batteries. Phone shuts off with both.
It's weird I don't understand what could be the problem.
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Different batteries, different ROMs... Sounds like you need to get it serviced.

Morghan said:
I'll find out. I've also tried two different batteries. Phone shuts off with both.
It's weird I don't understand what could be the problem.
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How is it shutting off, does it vibrate when shutting off or just straight to black, like you just pulled battery. If it vibrates as it powers down, likely a rom and/or kernel related issue, if it's just straight to black like you pulled the battery, likely a battery, battery pins or a failing power control module.

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How is it shutting off, does it vibrate when shutting off or just straight to black, like you just pulled battery. If it vibrates as it powers down, likely a rom and/or kernel related issue, if it's just straight to black like you pulled the battery, likely a battery, battery pins or a failing power control module.
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I want to say it vibrates before turning off. Although I think it just goes off. Guess I'll have to take it in or something.
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Another user was having this problem before. Random reboots no matter what setup. He had to take it in and get a replacement and then the probldm vanished.

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Bricked, or Broken?

I've had a G2 for a couple of years now that hasn't been working. I've exchanged batteries, but cannot get anything to boot. The phone was having problems with freezing prior to the supposed brick, and the phone is completely stock.
As of now, I have it plugged in via USB and I didn't hear any sort of notification that the computer even recognizes the phone, my other android phones will get picked up with the power off.
Long story short, is there a way to get into "upgrade mode", or something similar that HTC might have? Something from ADB that could trigger the phone to power on in the hardware doesn't power on itself?
Thanks.
EDIT: The charge LED does NOT come on while plugged on to the charger.
well before i say no can you get a battery that you know works and try this first
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demkantor said:
well before i say no can you get a battery that you know works and try this first
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Try what? I've tried another battery in the past. But shouldn't the LED come on when plugged into USB with or without battery?
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Check that the leads on the battery are touching the contacts in the phone properly!
captainreynolds said:
Check that the leads on the battery are touching the contacts in the phone properly!
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All good there.
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stevew84 said:
Try what? I've tried another battery in the past. But shouldn't the LED come on when plugged into USB with or without battery?
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not always, if it were just a weak battery than yes but if it malfunction in some ways than no. our phone need to send power through a working batt to turn on
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demkantor said:
not always, if it were just a weak battery than yes but if it malfunction in some ways than no. our phone need to send power through a working batt to turn on
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Well I can't get power to it what so ever.
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well chances are you will need to open it up and use a soldering station to fix it then. maybe someone else here has a good tip for you to try but my best guess is it will be sold for parts
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My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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travis2387 said:
My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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Well that certainly contributed to this thread.
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travis2387 said:
My G2 is freezing constantly.its a few years old with very light use.I think its just the phone.I prefer Samsung over HTC
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HTC is way better imo charging port could be dead.
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Stupid thing has water damage..the VOID sticker wasn't where it was supposed to be, but I saw some pink residue from the sticker. I'm gonna take it to see if I can get it fixed. I believe it's worth it, it isn't the first batch of G2's, it was one of the warranty replacements that didn't have those weird issues.
Take a multi meter to the contacts with the phone open. See if any power is getting through.

I think CM 10.1 killed my GS-III

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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shahkam said:
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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Android_Monsters said:
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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Android_Monsters said:
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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shahkam said:
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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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
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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
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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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Screen off during phone calls

I am having a problem that every time I make a phone call my screen shuts off. Its annoying because I can't get the screen back on unless the person I call answers and hangs up, or I pull my battery. Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and if there is a fix? It used to only happen on aosp based Roms but now it doesn't seem to matter what the base is ljc, lk8, ma5 or aosp. I am currently running the latest paranoid android from slick rick with the latest twrp; I've yet to try an ma5 ROM, but it was happening on a stock lk8 ROM.
Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Most likely a faulty proximity sensor. Probably need a replacement, I did.
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RTC88 said:
Most likely a faulty proximity sensor. Probably need a replacement, I did.
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what was the code to enter test mode? I cant remember.
I thought mine was faulty but turns out it is my defender case
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Sorry I can't remember. If the guy has a screen protector, I would try removing that first. The test should show all zeroes though.
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RTC88 said:
Most likely a faulty proximity sensor. Probably need a replacement, I did.
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thank you, im gonna take it into a sprint store today if i can. I thought it might be something like that but was hoping it wasnt.
No screen protector either, or a case, just phone.

Phone not realizing its been unplugged.

Hey XDA,
For a little while now, whenever I unplug my phone, it doesn't realize that is not charging for about 5 seconds or so. I find this pretty strange, does anyone know why this happens, and a possible way to fix it?
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What rom are you using, and have you tried using a different charger or cleaning the port
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EpiclyEpic said:
Hey XDA,
For a little while now, whenever I unplug my phone, it doesn't realize that is not charging for about 5 seconds or so. I find this pretty strange, does anyone know why this happens, and a possible way to fix it?
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I had this problem a while back, a new micro USB cable fixed the issue for me.
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ayeitschris said:
What rom are you using, and have you tried using a different charger or cleaning the port
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I'm actually not rooted at all. Just stock. And I haven't, I'll try it.
I've seen that happen with mine, also the reverse - not recognizing it's been plugged in for a few seconds. No problem - don't worry about it.
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Hey XDA,
For a little while now, whenever I unplug my phone, it doesn't realize that is not charging for about 5 seconds or so. I find this pretty strange, does anyone know why this happens, and a possible way to fix it?
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its happened to me with both stock and custom roms. not really a problem to worry about
That happened to me but I don't think its normal because it wasn't like that at first, till eventually I changed the cable because mine was acting up and now it works fine
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Lgog getting really hot.

Alright so the back of my phone (near the camera) has been getting really hot recently. Idk if it's the summer heat, my usage or what, but if I even use it for like 5 minutes it starts to warm up. Has this been happening to anyone else?
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Kman355 said:
Alright so the back of my phone (near the camera) has been getting really hot recently. Idk if it's the summer heat, my usage or what, but if I even use it for like 5 minutes it starts to warm up. Has this been happening to anyone else?
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what ROM are you on?
I'm on lifeless right now
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Same here, and once the CPU gets over 50 C the screen even starts to get this weird yellow line across the bottom and right sides... goes away as soon as it cools back down
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Kman355 said:
I'm on lifeless right now
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Stock kernel?
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Stock kernel?
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Yep, it was just heating up pretty bad compared to me OG evo. I flashed over to CM10 to try it, so far it hasnt really heated up. Only when playing the games, i just wish we could get this stupid camera issue fixed. That makes me want to go back to Lifeless.
check out spleefs AOKP rom, my temps have gone down significantly from the stock rom which would get hot AF
Mines cool with stock but with aosp its hot AF
It's a glass phone with a quad core processor i think you can figure the rest out.
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This issue seems to vary from person to person there seems to be no "fix-all" solution. Personally the only time my phone's ever gotten absurdly hot for no reason was when I ran the first build of Cyanogenmod for this device. On stock it took some nasty 108 °F weather to make my phone boil. By now though my phone always stays reasonably cool AOSP or not. You can try changing governors or whatnot with a non-stock kernel or maybe even try eco mode if it isn't already on. That's all I can think of.
I've definitely experienced some heat on mine. Lol
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I've definitely experienced some heat on mine. Lol
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Dam!! That's hot
Mine's been getting really high temps too, even while just browsing the internet!
At some point while I was flashing a rom, it crashed and gave me a soft brick.
It was hell to remove the back and now I even accidentally detached the connector that hooks up with the battery!
I can still charge it (sorta) but my battery is all glitchy.
I'm gonna try switching to aosp.
Its WiFi I made a post about it ....
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yea
My phone reaches 120f when playing game but averages 90-100f, its fine
I've noticed that only Stock ROM's have this problem. When I go from Stock to CM, I notice the change of temp right away and vise versa. I get the worst heat from charging. I have a 2.1A home charger and charges the phone quick on CM but with Stock it heats up to almost 130F and doesn't charge at all. There is something wrong with Stock. (I tried Lifeless, VectuS, & nexOGen).

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