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Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery

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Suriyan72 said:
Screen is all black and keeps vibrating, unable to enter recovery
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They say you can't help those people who doesnt want to be helped themselves.. you sound like one of those. You spent 20 seconds of your life writing this on the wrong forum.
How about more details on how it got to that state? What did you do?

Didn't do anything phone just rebooted and won't boot up and continues to vibrate

What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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rivas741 said:
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unable to enter download manager or recovery

I second the others. DETAILS MAN. DETAILS. are you rooted? What rom are you on? Gb or ics? Do you have a stock kernel or a custom kernel?
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DarthxTyler said:
What was the last thing you were doing? We can't help you unless you tell us what you were doing.
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the last thing I did was play words with friends

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rfail1988 said:
And just to be clear... Are you saying your phone wont boot, or just wont enter recovery mode?
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rooted on darkside ucle beta 7 and it wont boot up or enter recovery. i take the battery out and put it in and the samsung logo shows up and then screen turns black and starts to vibrate

You might be hard bricked unfortunately :-/ someone posted here recently how to unsoftbrick yourself although i didnt read it. It might be your saving grace. Otherwise... See if odin can flash you back to stock. If that doesnt save you then pray that the T mobile gods have mercy on your soul...
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Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the retail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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rivas741 said:
Try going to T-Mobile. I'm sure the ratail stores can't check if you're rooted if the phones doesn't boot. Maybe they'll exchange for refurbished.
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cant it shows the darkside boot animation for a little before it goes black and vibrates

Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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rfail1988 said:
Then you might be in luck... If you ge to thr boot animation then try flashing stock recovery then stock rom via odin. I have faith itll work...
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it wont go into recovery and odin recognizes the phone for about 5 seconds before it reboots and vibrates again.

What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
Odin will work you just have to get to download mode. Unless you really messed up something you should still be able to gert into download mode. The phone should not reboot once in download mode. Try pulling the battery then reinserting it but do not turn on the phone then plug the usb wire into the pc then hold both vol buttons and power and insert the usb right away hold until you see it enter download mode then follow the instuctions on the screen. You press vol up to continue into download mode or vol down to cancel and reboot.

Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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mojorisin7178 said:
What procedure are you using to get into download mode?
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pulling out the battery, plugging the usb in, then putting in the battery and holding the volume and power button down, its shows the download screen then reboots

Fly2Deaf said:
Make sure its not completly dead. If it is then plug it up and dont touch it for about 10-15 minutes.. It will reboot and you should be fine
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my phone has been vibrating forever now, probably wont stop until the battery dies out

May sound dumb, but pull out battery and hold power button for 15 seconds? Lol
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T-Mobile Galaxy S3 won't boot after Odin-HELP

So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.

I believe It is hanging on the kernel (panic.... not you, the phone). Have you tried booting into recovery and wiping cache? (volume up + home button during hard reset)
Edit: Also what are you flashing from (i.e. CM, AOKP, TW custom ROM)?

if you were on a custom rom prior to reverting to stock, you need to do a wipe in recovery

Serious_Beans said:
So I just flashed the stock image through Odin (used the USB cable that came with the phone) and it boots past the boot animation(the T-Mobile 4g one) and then just hangs on "SAMSUNG" and it's still glowing and so is the notification LED but it won't boot, it just stays there. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this thing going? Is this a brick? I don't know what is wrong with it.
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It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.

Go into stock recovery and do a factory reset. Then reboot, that should do the trick.
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Reboot after ODIN
sswb27 said:
It took mine a very long time to boot after odin stock flash. But i dont think your screwed since it still powers on. Can you still get into download mode? Try to flash it again and see what happens.
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OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!

rvshaw said:
OK, I am sure I am going to get blasted for putting this on the wrong thread but I have search!
Ran the boot program through ODIN on the Sprint version SPH-L710 and phone will not reboot now and cannot power on
toolkit says waiting for device
get the battery, Samsung and download screen briefly then it dies,
Afraid that I bricked it!
Any help would be appreciated!
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Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
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ThC23 said:
Take out battery, unplug from computer, press and hold volume keys, plug in cable and insert battery again.
See if it goes into download mode.
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red light does come on in the left
then battery symbol flash for a minute and nothing else

I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.

crash822 said:
I ran into this exact same issue. I tried flashing kernal and everything after I did odin. What I had to do in order for my phone to boot was boot into recovery and do a factory reset. Keep in mind this was stock recovery so everything on your sd card will be gone after the wipe.
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Yes, wish I could boot into recovery but it will not even boot into recovery. Not sure if is a soft brick cannot load a screen regardless

Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.

crash822 said:
Volume down + home screen + power button doesn't work for download mode? If you're screen is still powering on and showing the battery charging icon and samsung logo you haven't bricked your phone. I know on previous phones I have had that even though it showed nothing but a black screen odin still picked the phone up and was able to flash it.
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No, Volume down+home screen+power button only produces the Samsung or the Battery symbol for about a second, goes away and nothing else after that but a black screen, ODIN does not see the phone as it is not powered on, hope that makes sense

Factory reset worked perfectly. Too bad T-Mobile already shipped the replacement.
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Johnny Blaze says ________?
I can't believe you called T-Mo for a replacement before performing a simple factory reset. Talk about a waste of money. As a future business owner this upsets me.

Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do

mrmako777 said:
Well, if you're gonna play the system, might as well use your old phone to help us diagnose the imei lost problem and help the community. If you feel like helping us out, get ahold of lordmorphus or someone closely involved in this situation to have you run a few tests so we can figure this thing out. Ill be your bestest friend if you do
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Sure I'll pm him and see what we can do.
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I pmed him. I'll see what we can do when he responds.
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Serious_Beans said:
Eh lol oh well. Didn't think it would boot.
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I can care less about exchanging the phone, but you did get a reply here of what to do.
What was the point of asking if you weren't gonna bother listening??
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Oh, Sh*t, I think I just bricked my phone - same thing happened. It now won't even allow me to boot. I took the battery out, unplugged the USB. Plugged the USB in and then put the battery back in. The LED light comes on for about 30 seconds and then goes off and stays OFF. I've tried POWER+UP/DOWN volume and HOME...still no avail.
The computer does recognize [the phone] when I plug it in by making a thumping sound and then it makes a few thumping sounds and then that's it.
PLEASE HELP!

[Q] Brick? (Phone won't stay in download mode)

Hey guys, I'm not sure if my phone is dead. It was running fine this morning, Task & Ktoonsez' AOKP with Ktoonsez kernel. However, I tried to unlock it a little while ago and it wouldn't go on. It boots to the splash screen, both normally and going into recovery, but it doesn't last long enough to go into recovery or boot normally. I try to boot into download mode and it boots, but the phone turns off after a few seconds.
I tried to flash back to stock in Odin, but the phone doesn't stay in download mode long enough for the flash to finish.
I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

Pretty sure if it was bricked it wouldn't boot into download mode at all. It sounds like it is losing power or something. The only thing I can think of is maybe your battery is bad. Download mode can run off of USB power if you remove the battery after booting into it. Maybe plug your phone in and boot into download mode, then take your battery out before it shuts off and see if it stays on.

Lumixz said:
Pretty sure if it was bricked it wouldn't boot into download mode at all. It sounds like it is losing power or something. The only thing I can think of is maybe your battery is bad. Download mode can run off of USB power if you remove the battery after booting into it. Maybe plug your phone in and boot into download mode, then take your battery out before it shuts off and see if it stays on.
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No dice. It just did the same thing it's been doing. I went into download, popped the battery, it stayed in download for a few seconds, and then powered off.
Could it be a faulty power button? The phone is constantly vibrating by itself and if the power button was messed up it could be causing the phone to leave download mode.

Sun0fNothing said:
No dice. It just did the same thing it's been doing. I went into download, popped the battery, it stayed in download for a few seconds, and then powered off.
Could it be a faulty power button? The phone is constantly vibrating by itself and if the power button was messed up it could be causing the phone to leave download mode.
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As far as I can tell pressing or holding the power button in download mode will only restart it, but won't shut it off. Also it takes about 10 seconds. I don't think it's your power button.

Lumixz said:
As far as I can tell pressing or holding the power button in download mode will only restart it, but won't shut it off. Also it takes about 10 seconds. I don't think it's your power button.
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Ah, okay.
In that case, though, I have no clue what's causing the problem here. At this point the only thing I can do is enter download mode for a few seconds, but I can't get it to be enough time to flash a ROM in Odin.

Sun0fNothing said:
Hey guys, I'm not sure if my phone is dead. It was running fine this morning, Task & Ktoonsez' AOKP with Ktoonsez kernel. However, I tried to unlock it a little while ago and it wouldn't go on. It boots to the splash screen, both normally and going into recovery, but it doesn't last long enough to go into recovery or boot normally. I try to boot into download mode and it boots, but the phone turns off after a few seconds.
I tried to flash back to stock in Odin, but the phone doesn't stay in download mode long enough for the flash to finish.
I'm not sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
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Might be a dumb question... Is your battery charged? I'd plug it in for a while off and see if the battery logo comes up and than try putting it in recovery or download.
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KorGuy123 said:
Might be a dumb question... Is your battery charged? I'd plug it in for a while off and see if the battery logo comes up and than try putting it in recovery or download.
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I tried that too. It's been plugged in for a while and the same thing happens. It just stays in download mode for a few seconds and then turns off. Also, I tried flashing back to stock in Odin but it failed because the phone turned off before the flash could finish. Now the phone says "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select Recovery mode in Kies and try again."
So it's basically stuck in download mode cause of a corrupted flash. If I could get the phone to stay in download mode, I could flash it back to stock with Odin, but it's not giving me enough time at this point.

I'm running into the same problem currently, I was wondering if you were able to find a solution. Same ROM same Kernel. I've been using my current version of the ROM since October and haven't flashed anything recently, It just died on me last nigth and now I'm experiencing what you are as well. I was able to turn on the phone somehow last night but it stayed on for couple of mins and turned off again. At the time I had 60% charge.
Thanks

Unfortunately not. Sent my phone back to AT&T and they honored the warranty (despite it being very clear that I was rooted and on custom software).
@fly3rr
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Sun0fNothing said:
Unfortunately not. Sent my phone back to AT&T and they honored the warranty (despite it being very clear that I was rooted and on custom software).
@fly3rr
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Thanks. I got the phone when it launched so it's been over a year hence I'm well over the one year manufacturer warranty. Doubt they'll honor it for me =/.

Bad news, It's not about software, it's a hardware issue.
I had that issue with a Sprint S3,
The power button switch is stuck pressed all the time, you can try to hit it a little and maybe it pops out but the issue is gonna still there.
If you remove and insert the battery does it vibrates and tries to turn on without pressing the power button?

Damian8a said:
Bad news, It's not about software, it's a hardware issue.
I had that issue with a Sprint S3,
The power button switch is stuck pressed all the time, you can try to hit it a little and maybe it pops out but the issue is gonna still there.
If you remove and insert the battery does it vibrates and tries to turn on without pressing the power button?
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yup I just realized it was the power button issue. I managed to fix the problem[kind of], i kept trying to get into download mode while connected to AC Adapter with official charging cables. And it stayed in download mode long enough for me to go back to stock ROM. I'm just trying to avoid hitting the power button as much as possible because every time I do something goes crazy and phone turns off.
I'm gonna try and go to AT&T store tomorrow to see if they can do anything about this.
Thanks again for your help. I really appreciate it.

You're welcome. Good luck dude :thumbup:
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I have the same problem. I've tried to install quickly the twrp. But is not time enough

My problem was the battery. After charge a lot, all thing works fine.

[Q] Non-noob, soft brick at a loss and needs help!!

Ok, so as the thread title says I'm not a nooby at this, been here for 6 years modding every phone, sometimes flashing rom's almost daily on some phones. I also search before posting cause I hate being bashed for not searching, but I have searched, and tried numerous solutions, but am still in need of of guru help.
Situation: T-Mobile Galaxy Note 2, rooted, updated with new updates for LTE, re-rooted, so far so good, then decided to do some mods, multi-window - good to go and then notifications bar, that is where things went wrong, so went into recovery mode, flash recovery image, got the yellow triangle with phone and computer image saying bad firmware, connect with Kies and do recovery, well Kies never could recognize it, so opened up the Samsung Galaxy Note2 Toolkit, flashed recovery, then phone will not go into bootloader or downloader mode, all I have is a black screen with "Samsung Galaxy NoteII" and it does nothing. I can no longer use toolkit cause it says USB de-bugging needs to be enabled. And when I try to use Odin to flash the root66_TMO_T889UVBMB4 i get failed.
It's not like I've never had a bad flash, but I have always been able to recover, but with not being able to get into download mode, I am at a loss, does anyone know if there is a way to enable de-bugging from command prompt via the computer?
I am totally open to suggestions, otherwise I am left with a very expensive door stop.

Try pressing volume down+home then press power should put you in download ( the yellow triangle pc screen will still work)

deeznutz1977 said:
Try pressing volume down+home then press power should put you in download ( the yellow triangle pc screen will still work)
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I am pass the yellow triangle that is gone, when I pull battery then put back in pressing power and volume buttons, does nothing, just the samsung screen and I can't get out of it have tried dozens of times, that's all I get

MDANavymom said:
I am pass the yellow triangle that is gone, when I pull battery then put back in pressing power and volume buttons, does nothing, just the samsung screen and I can't get out of it have tried dozens of times, that's all I get
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volume down+home,last press power

deeznutz1977 said:
volume down+home,last press power
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Now that did the trick, had to try that combo 5-6 times but finally after a short prayer, am flashed and back up and running! Big thanks to you!

Noob after all?... Just teasing
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FaceMelter said:
Noob after all?... Just teasing
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Lol
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[Q] My Phone Won't Boot Into Any Mode

So, my Galaxy S3 suddenly shut off on me, so I tried to reboot it, and it would just say "Galaxy s3" then nothing would show. So I figured it was a software brick and I can just restore a backup. When I tried to access Recovery Mode, it would show that its trying to boot into Recovery, but nothing would happen. So I figured I can just go into Download Mode and restore it through ODIN to get all the partitions working again. It would go to Download Mode for a few seconds, and then just shut off on me before I can even do anything. Everytime I take out the battery and put it back in, it tries to auto boot, but it never gets passed the Samsung s3 logo. Do you think this is a software or hardware brick? And would any of you know how I should go about fixing this?
Thanks a bunch

neim81094 said:
So, my Galaxy S3 suddenly shut off on me, so I tried to reboot it, and it would just say "Galaxy s3" then nothing would show. So I figured it was a software brick and I can just restore a backup. When I tried to access Recovery Mode, it would show that its trying to boot into Recovery, but nothing would happen. So I figured I can just go into Download Mode and restore it through ODIN to get all the partitions working again. It would go to Download Mode for a few seconds, and then just shut off on me before I can even do anything. Everytime I take out the battery and put it back in, it tries to auto boot, but it never gets passed the Samsung s3 logo. Do you think this is a software or hardware brick? And would any of you know how I should go about fixing this?
Thanks a bunch
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i think the problem is on power button...
if the power button press contiues will be like that
i meet the same case like u...
sory my englis
press thanks if i help...

I agree, the only way it should turn on when you replace the battery is if power was held down. It would explain everything else you mentioned as well. Try gently knocking it back out. Or if comfortable with it, open the device to have a closer kook.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I agree, the only way it should turn on when you replace the battery is if power was held down. It would explain everything else you mentioned as well. Try gently knocking it back out. Or if comfortable with it, open the device to have a closer kook.
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It just turned on, I guess it was the power button.
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i'm experiencing a similar issue. I can only get any result while it's plugged in. it wont boot past the second splash screen, I got it into download mode and flashed the stock package from sammobile.com with no change. the phone keeps trying to boot into recovery after flashing stock but it goes to the android with the open chest screen and reboots and tries again over and over. i've taken the phone apart and seen nothing wrong, no corrosion, no water damage and i've even replaced the battery with no success. i tried flashing clockworkmod recovery, the flash was successful but it still wont even boot to recovery. the power button isnt stuck, i can manipulate it when i have the bare motherboard in my hands and still it's fine. would replacing the power switch have any affect? please any thoughts would be appreciated
edit: since flashing stock, plugging the phone into the computer with oem cable causes it to vibrate intermittently. holding power causes it to try recovery mode. running windows 7 with samsung drivers properly installed and adb recognizes my galaxy s2 and captivate no problems. someone mentioned on a post i read about using a 3 part stock rom, modem, pda and phone to flash instead of the all in one tar file, any thoughts?
another edit. this phone has never to my knowledge been rooted or had any kernel/rom flashed onto it. as far as i know it's stock from Wind mobile, 3 months past warranty