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So let me start off with I've done research and not just posting up a new thread because I'm lazy. All of the threads that I have looked through all seem to be close but not the same as most people can boot into recovery.
Running Konis elite series III had it about a week with no issues Ive reboot plenty of times and havent had any problems once so ever. Now I think my problem happened yesterday when I needed to clear up some space and deleted the package I installed Konis rom from I figured since it was already installed the package wasnt needed anymore. I noticed later that day my number pad was no longer showing up didn't pay much mind to it figured i just needed a restart. Reboot the phone today at work and low and behold.
Phone gives me 3 vibrates no lights on regular power up.
Vol - power I get 5 vibrates green flashing led (gotta pull batt for it to turn off)
Vol + I get 3 vibrates no lights
The phone just stays black need to take out the battery in order to get the vibrate errors again.
All the threads I read regarding the 5 vibrates say its in diagnostic mode but everyone else is able to get into recovery. I think I am now the owner of an expensive paper weight. -_-
Would pulling the koni rom install file off the sd do this?
What does the vibrate error mean.. being in diagnostic mode is pretty broad how are you suppose to troubleshoot something like that :/
Are you able to get into the bootloader at all?
Are you absolutely 100% positive that you're holding volume down and power? That should take you to the bootloader. I saw someone with a similar problem, but they were just doing volume up instead.
What happens when you try to power the device normally?
And deleting the rom zip from your SD card shouldn't cause any problems. In fact, I can't think of a single way it could cause anything to go wrong. That is the only thing you deleted, right? You didn't delete anything from internal memory?
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well i think that the 5 vibrates and green led's are indicative of safe mode. the other i'm not so sure about. if you're holding vol down and power and getting 5 vibrates then maybe there is a prob with your vol buttons. its acting as if your holding the vol up button without hitting it. maybe its stuck or something like that. just guessing though.
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Thanks for all the replys.
Nah doesn't let me do anything. I plug it in and it asks for broadcom drivers thats about it.
I made sure that the vol - is being pressed it gives me 5 vibrations and then the green led no recover menus/
A buddy of mine had the same problem after flashing the kingdom rom on his incredible. He sent it to the phone insurance company and they replaced the motherboard. So basically, your kind of screwed.
Well.....unless you can somehow fix it on the evo...... because I know we tried everything on his incredible, and it would just do the exact same thing every time, no matter what.
nvm same deal. it booted up intro recovery one time i erased cache and ran a saved backup on clockworks phone restarted after it finished and back to the same deal. yay.
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nvm same deal. it booted up intro recovery one time i erased cache and ran a saved backup on clockworks phone restarted after it finished and back to the same deal. yay.
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What do you mean by back to the same deal?? Back to normal or back to the problem?
hardware related..
volume button keeps getting stuck some way some how and whenever the phone turns off its a pain to turn on. 30+ tries taking the batt in and out. When the phone would be turned on the volume would pop up randomly. Figured it was that so i bumped the phone on the desk with the buttons down and it cranked on did it again early today and it cranked up again after a few tries my phones toast. -_-
I have a SPH L710 galaxy s3 (sprint). I recently flashed a Rom called hyperdrive 4.1.2 that was on it's RLS11. following the instructions (factory reset x2, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe system), I then picked the features i wanted in the built in aroma installer and let the rom flash. When it was done I noticed i kept getting the message "the process com.android.phone has stopped". So i performed a clean install of my previous Rom which was Liquid Smooth.
A day or two later I noticed hyperdrive has released it's RLS 12, so i decided to give it another try. This time there was an option in the aroma installer for developer picks so i selected that, thinking my previous attempt i may have picked conflicting files in the aroma installer. The Rom worked fine for about a day. Then the next day while it was charging after the battery have completely died the night before. I noticed the phone had rebooted on its own, then it started going into a boot loop. I did a battery pull, and i noticed when i put it back in, before i could even hold the buttons to get it into recovery mode or download mode, the phone would vibrate and turn on by itself, without me pressing any buttons at all. After some trying i was able to have the buttons held so when i inserted the battery, i was already holding the buttons to try to get to recovery. When I did this it would say it was about to go into recovery, then the screen would go black. The same thing when I tried getting it into download mode, It would show the download mode screen, then go to a black screen. I Then did some research, after seeing no one else really having this problem, and noticing that since it was still seeing boot screens before the black screen, it shouldn't be a hard brick.
I decided to order a USB jig for my phone that came today. When inserted the battery with the usb jig the phone still turned on by itself, but it was able to go to download mode and it stayed at the screen. I used odin 3.07 to flash SPH-L710_MD4_1130792_Rooted_Nodata, which was a tar file you would use if you wanted to keep your user data. It took 10 minutes to flash but everything seemed to be a success, it rebooted my phone and everything seemed to be working fine. After about 20 minutes of my phone being plugged back into a charger and i was halfway through with downloading an app from the android market where out of nowhere my phone temporarily froze and then rebooted, to where it will show the samsung screen, then the samsung galaxy s3 screen, then just goes to a black screen. Now even with the USB jig, it will still power on by itself as soon as a place in the battery, go directly to download mode, but then go to a black screen within 3-4 seconds before i can do anything.
Has anyone ever encountered anything like this before? At first i thought it might be a stuck power button, but when I was able to flash through download mode with the USB jig that first time it makes me think it is bricked. Any help or insight would be GREATLY appreciated.
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I have a SPH L710 galaxy s3 (sprint). I recently flashed a Rom called hyperdrive 4.1.2 that was on it's RLS11. following the instructions (factory reset x2, wipe cache, wipe dalvik, wipe system), I then picked the features i wanted in the built in aroma installer and let the rom flash. When it was done I noticed i kept getting the message "the process com.android.phone has stopped". So i performed a clean install of my previous Rom which was Liquid Smooth.
A day or two later I noticed hyperdrive has released it's RLS 12, so i decided to give it another try. This time there was an option in the aroma installer for developer picks so i selected that, thinking my previous attempt i may have picked conflicting files in the aroma installer. The Rom worked fine for about a day. Then the next day while it was charging after the battery have completely died the night before. I noticed the phone had rebooted on its own, then it started going into a boot loop. I did a battery pull, and i noticed when i put it back in, before i could even hold the buttons to get it into recovery mode or download mode, the phone would vibrate and turn on by itself, without me pressing any buttons at all. After some trying i was able to have the buttons held so when i inserted the battery, i was already holding the buttons to try to get to recovery. When I did this it would say it was about to go into recovery, then the screen would go black. The same thing when I tried getting it into download mode, It would show the download mode screen, then go to a black screen. I Then did some research, after seeing no one else really having this problem, and noticing that since it was still seeing boot screens before the black screen, it shouldn't be a hard brick.
I decided to order a USB jig for my phone that came today. When inserted the battery with the usb jig the phone still turned on by itself, but it was able to go to download mode and it stayed at the screen. I used odin 3.07 to flash SPH-L710_MD4_1130792_Rooted_Nodata, which was a tar file you would use if you wanted to keep your user data. It took 10 minutes to flash but everything seemed to be a success, it rebooted my phone and everything seemed to be working fine. After about 20 minutes of my phone being plugged back into a charger and i was halfway through with downloading an app from the android market where out of nowhere my phone temporarily froze and then rebooted, to where it will show the samsung screen, then the samsung galaxy s3 screen, then just goes to a black screen. Now even with the USB jig, it will still power on by itself as soon as a place in the battery, go directly to download mode, but then go to a black screen within 3-4 seconds before i can do anything.
Has anyone ever encountered anything like this before? At first i thought it might be a stuck power button, but when I was able to flash through download mode with the USB jig that first time it makes me think it is bricked. Any help or insight would be GREATLY appreciated.
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How long did you let it set on the black screen because it takes a while to boot up the first time after flashing a ROM.
GiantJay said:
How long did you let it set on the black screen because it takes a while to boot up the first time after flashing a ROM.
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Well i just placed the battery back in, it started on it's own without my pressing anything again, and i've been timing the last 5 minutes. but it seems like it will stay a black screen indefinitely. unless i remove the back of the phone, or snap it back into place, or any kind of micro impact movements it seems, when I do that it vibrates like it's first being turned on, and shows the samsung screen, then the samsung galaxy s3 screen, then it will go black again.
See if your adb on your computer can recognize the phone while it's stuck on the black screen. You might be able to push a Rom or recovery over using that.
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You may want to just start fresh and lose your data with a different stock file. That kinda happened to me before on the gs2 and I found better results with a 100% fresh start. The no data always left me with a hangup or two after getting the phone to boot.
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See if your adb on your computer can recognize the phone while it's stuck on the black screen. You might be able to push a Rom or recovery over using that.
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Not picking it up on adb.
dante32278 said:
You may want to just start fresh and lose your data with a different stock file. That kinda happened to me before on the gs2 and I found better results with a 100% fresh start. The no data always left me with a hangup or two after getting the phone to boot.
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After the first odin flash i was thinking the same thing. But that's the thing, it won't stay on the download mode screen long enough for me to even try to flash anything else through odin. I'm also noticing when connected to the charger, if i make a slight impact against the phone with my palm, the screen will briefly show the battery icon as if the phone is charging when it is turned off, then the screen will go black again. When it is unplugged, is when it will show the samsung screen, then the samsung galaxy s3 screen, then go black again.
That's weird...sounds like something is loose. Any kind of recent impact damage to the phone? Dropping it, throwing it at your cat, anything like that?
To me it sounds like maybe your power button is stuck "down"
If you didn't know, the power button has a fail safe reboot that happens after holding for about 10 seconds. So no matter what, if you phone is frozen or whatever, holding power more than 10s will cause it to reboot. That would also explain why its turning itself on as soon as you pop in the battery.
toolegit said:
That's weird...sounds like something is loose. Any kind of recent impact damage to the phone? Dropping it, throwing it at your cat, anything like that?
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not recently, and if it was ever dropped, it would be in it's case... But i had noticed that while it was in it's power glove case, sometimes i would have to use more than normal pressure on the power button to get the phone to respond. I was wondering if something was stuck, just haven't read anything like that happening to anyone, and when I used the jig the first time the screen stayed on.
Hey guys,
So I've got an S3 running AOKP at the moment and I was wondering if there was any way to disable the power button. It's been malfunctioning, and causing my phone to reboot constantly. Sometimes even when off it continues to think I'm holding down the power button and cancels the boot process...
Any ideas of a workaround? I'm out of warranty and can't want to pay for repairs at the moment.
S3 power button boot loop (sudden death?)
poacherD said:
Hey guys,
So I've got an S3 running AOKP at the moment and I was wondering if there was any way to disable the power button. It's been malfunctioning, and causing my phone to reboot constantly. Sometimes even when off it continues to think I'm holding down the power button and cancels the boot process...
Any ideas of a workaround? I'm out of warranty and can't want to pay for repairs at the moment.
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Hi,
I am having the exact same issue. Very strange as it decided to do this while checking my email (finger no where near the power button) and I have never had any issues prior to this.
I'm running CWM, CM10.2 and I CANNOT BOOT into recovery (CWM) or ODIN, best I got was the CM loader screen then it reboots.
Even if I disconnect the battery, wait 30 minutes (fully charged) and replace the battery, it attempts to boot itself again. and again and again...
The best videos I've seen involve smacking the phone on the power button side (not going to do that, at least hard) I think it may be a random power button failure. I will be disassembling the phone tonight and trying to open or close the power button contacts and wipe my phone before it goes back....
Yoiks!
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Hi,
I am having the exact same issue. Very strange as it decided to do this while checking my email (finger no where near the power button) and I have never had any issues prior to this.
I'm running CWM, CM10.2 and I CANNOT BOOT into recovery (CWM) or ODIN, best I got was the CM loader screen then it reboots.
Even if I disconnect the battery, wait 30 minutes (fully charged) and replace the battery, it attempts to boot itself again. and again and again...
The best videos I've seen involve smacking the phone on the power button side (not going to do that, at least hard) I think it may be a random power button failure. I will be disassembling the phone tonight and trying to open or close the power button contacts and wipe my phone before it goes back....
Yoiks!
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It's very random for me too. Sometimes it'll work all day then it'll take like an hour and a half to turn back on.
Quick question, as I've heard this from a couple people. Do you use an otter box?
Regardless I'm 90% sure this is hardware related and has nothign to do with software, because all the cases I've heard of this have had different roms, one of which was stock unrooted.
Pretty frustrating. Not sure I'll buy a Samsung again to be honest.
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It's very random for me too. Sometimes it'll work all day then it'll take like an hour and a half to turn back on.
Quick question, as I've heard this from a couple people. Do you use an otter box?
Regardless I'm 90% sure this is hardware related and has nothign to do with software, because all the cases I've heard of this have had different roms, one of which was stock unrooted.
Pretty frustrating. Not sure I'll buy a Samsung again to be honest.
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This started gradually happening to me too and I bought both my phone and Otterbox in July 2012 when it came out. I noticed with my family members' S3's that their Otterboxes were different in regards to the power button (it stuck out more) whereas mine hardly stuck out at all. I got a warranty replacement this past July (2013) and the exact issues you described began happening. It started out as random reboots and as of yesterday, I can't get my phone to boot because it thinks I'm holding the power button down (therefore not letting the boot process finish). I took my phone apart, expecting the power button to be an easy swap like it was in the GS2, but no, it's a part of the friggin motherboard. I also am looking for a way to disable the power button. I'd recommend that if you are able to get it to boot even once, that you make sure to backup all your stuff. Fortunately all my pics are backed up since I can't boot my phone anymore, but other files are currently inaccessible. I wonder if anyone knows if some sort of electrical tape or something could prevent the power button signal from transferring so that we would be able to boot our phones?
I had the same power button issue with my Captivate as well... and thought that issue had been looked into. After 14 months of use on my S3, I noticed this issue appeared.
Solution (well not quite): change key layout to disable power button. Re-map volume down as "power, wake". Yes, by doing this, I am losing volume down button. Also, when the phone is off, I still need to press the power button to power it up. My fix of changing the key layout file won't take charge until after the phone boots up.
I just got the screen of death? or simply a black screen and i dont know how to fix it. the volume works, and i can hear music playing, no water damage. but idk if there is a fix
please help
fozzy501 said:
I just got the screen of death? or simply a black screen and i dont know how to fix it. the volume works, and i can hear music playing, no water damage. but idk if there is a fix
please help
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What preceded the 'black screen?'
I assume you're Rooted.
Can you get into Recovery?
To get into Recovery:
Power down device.
Don't turn on
Press Power & Vol up buttons at same time
Release when device vibrates and you see Blue Recovery booting words in left upper corner.
Wipe cache, dalvik cache and boot.
If that doesn't work,
Flash Nandroid backup
If you don't have a Nandroid backup, Factory Reset, wipe cache & dakvik cache
If that doesn't work,
Go to ODIN/Download mode, and install Samsung Stock Firmware via ODIN.
Biker1 said:
What preceded the 'black screen?'
I assume you're Rooted.
Can you get into Recovery?
To get into Recovery:
Power down device.
Don't turn on
Press Power & Vol up buttons at same time
Release when device vibrates and you see Blue Recovery booting words in left upper corner.
Wipe cache, dalvik cache and boot.
If that doesn't work,
Flash Nandroid backup
If you don't have a Nandroid backup, Factory Reset, wipe cache & dakvik cache
If that doesn't work,
Go to ODIN/Download mode, and install Samsung Stock Firmware via ODIN.
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the thing is that im not rooted at all. i dont know wat to do
fozzy501 said:
the thing is that im not rooted at all. i dont know wat to do
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What preceded the black screen?
What were the events leading to the black screen?
Installing something, trying something new, jumping into a pool forgetting the deviceuisuin youropocket, stuff like that.. The info can help determine what is going on.
You're not rooted is ok.
The fact that some stuff is working is good.
After you answer the above, you can:
Power down phone.
Make sure the battery has at least 50% charge.
If you can't see the stats and think you may be low on juice, pluguin the device for an hour andlet charge.
After you are charged, you're going to go into the he stock recovery
By doing the following:
Power down device
Press Power & Vol up buttons at same time.
Release buttons when you see the blue words in upper left corner of screen and feel the Vibrate.
Using the volume buttons, scroll up or down to Factory Reset
Press Power button to confirm
Let the screen go through its stuff
Then you will choose reboot and enter it with the Power button.
It'll take 15-20 minutes sometimes, so just wait and see if you're device boots.
If the above fails to boot your device successfully, you'll have to ODIN Samsung Stock Firmware via your pc.
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What preceded the black screen?
What were the events leading to the black screen?
Installing something, trying something new, jumping into a pool forgetting the deviceuisuin youropocket, stuff like that.. The info can help determine what is going on.
You're not rooted is ok.
The fact that some stuff is working is good.
After you answer the above, you can:
Power down phone.
Make sure the battery has at least 50% charge.
If you can't see the stats and think you may be low on juice, pluguin the device for an hour andlet charge.
After you are charged, you're going to go intodthe stock recovery
By doing the following:
Power down device
Press Power & Vol up buttons at same time.
Release buttons when you see the blue words in upper left corner of screen and feel the Vibrate.
Using the volume buttons, scroll up or down to Factory Reset
Press Power button to confirm
Let the screen go through its stuff
Then you will choose reboot and enter it with the Power button.
It'll take 15-20 minutes sometimes, so just wait and see if you're device boots.
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i was using it fine at night and then i didnt have a charger so i used the car charger and plugged it into the power outlet and then in the morning the screen was all black.
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i was using it fine at night and then i didnt have a charger so i used the car charger and plugged it into the power outlet and then in the morning the screen was all black.
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Ohhh.....
Hold off on the above instructions.
Do you have another battery you can try?
Or a friend whose battery you can try?
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But you can hear and adjust the volume, it's just the screen is black.
That would lead me to believe the battery is good.
Hopefully there is no internal damage form a bad car charger, etc.
Just thinking out loud.
Perhaps try the Recovery steps above after charging the battery.
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Ohhh.....
Hold off on the above instructions.
Do you have another battery you can try?
Or a friend whose battery you can try?
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i mean it says it charges wen i plug in the normal charger, but at the moment i dont have another battery
do you think thats the problem because i mean the screen is all black but the i can touch the screen and feel it vibrate wen i try to unlock the phone
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i mean it says it charges wen i plug in the normal charger, but at the moment i dont have another battery
do you think thats the problem because i mean the screen is all black but the i can touch the screen and feel it vibrate wen i try to unlock the phone
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I see......
First see jif you can get into Recovery.
If you can or can't, let me know.
Then we'll go from there.
If you can:
First try wiping cache, dalvik cache and reboot.
If that doesn't work, do the Factory reset I wrote the steps to.
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I see......
First see jif you can get into Recovery.
If you can or can't, let me know.
Then we'll go from there.
If you can:
First try wiping cache, dalvik cache and reboot.
If that doesn't work, do the Factory reset I wrote the steps to.
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i tried the recovery options but nothing will come up
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i tried the recovery options but nothing will come up
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It will help if you tell me the steps you did and what the device feedback was.
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It will help if you tell me the steps you did and what the device feedback was.
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i did the steps you told me hold the volume& up and power and nothing came up. i felt it vibrate but nothing came up. the screen flashes just a little bit
If you attempted to get into stock recovery following the proper procedure without success, I'd try one more time.
If failure repeats, try to boot the device into ODIN/Download mode by:
Power down device
Don't power up
Press Power & Vol DOWN buttons this time.
Hold the buttons until the device boots into ODIN mode, usually just a few seconds.
Let me know.
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If you attempted to get into stock recovery following the proper procedure without success, I'd try one more time.
If failure repeats, try to boot the device into ODIN/Download mode by:
Power down device
Don't power up
Press Power & Vol DOWN buttons this time.
Hold the buttons until the device boots into ODIN mode, usually just a few seconds.
Let me know.
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nope nothing
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i did the steps you told me hold the volume& up and power and nothing came up. i felt it vibrate but nothing came up. the screen flashes just a little bit
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I have a feeling the device may have booted into Recovery successfully, but the screen is blacksso you can't see the Recovery screen.
When you say it lit up a little, please describe.
Does anything on the screen light up at anytime?
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I have a feeling the device may have booted into Recovery successfully, but the screen is blacksso you can't see the Recovery screen.
When you say it lit up a little, please describe.
Does anything on the screen light up at anytime?
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when it rebooted it did a small flash starting froim the top of the screen to the bottom, really fast and really quick
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nope nothing
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I'm not 100% ccertain, but it appears your screen is shot. May not be the screen itself, but the circuitry that lights the screen.
How that happened I'm not 100% certain, but it would appear that it has something to do with car charging the device.
I went through as much troubleshooting as I know, but without the display, I don't know how to get into Recovery or ODIN, which most likely is a moot point because the issue is most likely not software related, but hardware related.
Hopefully I'm wrong
Just a heads up...when you use a car charger to charge your phone its highly recommended to unplug it as soon as its charged. I believe thats what caused your problem.
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Where or how much to repair the screen?
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Where or how much to repair the screen?
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As I mentioned, I'm not sure it's the digitizer assembly that is bad or the circuitry that operates the digitizer screen assembly or both.
I'd say a digitizer/screen assembly replacement with Samsung OEM parts, including labor may be approx. $175 give or take a few bucks. Would have to check.
The reputable installer would have to specify that you won't be charged if the replacement doesn't work out. Which is obvious anyway.
I'd go to a place in person, and wait for it to be done, if that's possible in your area.
I'd also just say that my screen just stopped working. Let him determine what's up, before be he does anything.
On the other hand, maybe let the tech knows what you think the cause of the issue is, although no one is 100%. Yeah, just tell him what happened.
You plugged the phone into a car charger overnight, and in the am, the screen didn't illuminate.
Maybe it's not the screen and something more simple, maybe.
The tech would also be able to troubleshoot the device more effectively.
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As I mentioned, I'm not sure it's the digitizer assembly that is bad or the circuitry that operates the digitizer screen assembly or both.
I'd say a digitizer/screen assembly replacement with Samsung OEM parts, including labor may be approx. $175 give or take a few bucks. Would have to check.
The reputable installer would have to specify that you won't be charged if the replacement doesn't work out. Which is obvious anyway.
I'd go to a place in person, and wait for it to be done, if that's possible in your area.
I'd also just say that my screen just stopped working. Let him determine what's up, before be he does anything.
On the other hand, maybe let the tech knows what you think the cause of the issue is, although no one is 100%. Yeah, just tell him what happened.
You plugged the phone into a car charger overnight, and in the am, the screen didn't illuminate.
Maybe it's not the screen and something more simple, maybe.
The tech would also be able to troubleshoot the device more effectively.
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Keep in mind these phones have a year of Samsung warranty.
He's not rooted so he shouldn't have warranty issues.
Send it to Samsung.
So today my phone started to power it's self off. When I power on it shows the kernel screen for a few secs then powers off. I can boot into Recovery (CWM) and when I select reboot it does the same. If if I boot in to Download Mode, it only stays on a few secs.
Is it the power button? Any ideas?
I'm running the BMS Kernel and C-Rom 6.6. I have had this same rom and kernel for weeks with no issues.
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So today my phone started to power it's self off. When I power on it shows the kernel screen for a few secs then powers off. I can boot into Recovery (CWM) and when I select reboot it does the same. If if I boot in to Download Mode, it only stays on a few secs.
Is it the power button? Any ideas?
I'm running the BMS Kernel and C-Rom 6.6. I have had this same rom and kernel for weeks with no issues.
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Sounds like your battery is dying. Might wanna look into getting a new one.
BWolf56 said:
Sounds like your battery is dying. Might wanna look into getting a new one.
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Interesting, I have not had any issue with the battery. I'll look into it. Any way to test without using another battery?
Anything else it could be?
Using CWM built in key test it seems it is the power button, when I touch the power key it reads as if it is being touched multiple times or heklod down. Any Fix without replacing the button?
Not that I know of I have only seen replacing it fixes it
Ive seen several people report that opening it up and jiggling the button can help, but when it does it is only temporary.
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Using CWM built in key test it seems it is the power button, when I touch the power key it reads as if it is being touched multiple times or heklod down. Any Fix without replacing the button?
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It's fairly easy to replace. You can buy a button off ebay for fairly cheap and look on YouTube to replace it.
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I agree it sounds like a stuck power button. My experience with this problem first showed in a captivate of my moms. It was very bizarre tho. On stock ROM it would constantly do the vibrate, cycle, vibrate etc. On a custom ROM however, it has had zero problems with the power button. Maybe try that? Not a sure fire fix, just telling what happened with the Cappy. ☺
If this is power button problem you can try (what i did and worked, but it is your choice and you can damage your phone) drop little of oil in power button and press couple time with out battery in phone.
norbarb said:
If this is power button problem you can try (what i did and worked, but it is your choice and you can damage your phone) drop little of oil in power button and press couple time with out battery in phone.
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That's actually fairly dangerous for your device. I would suggest an air duster if you think it's dirty.
I'm actually having the same problem. It just started his morning.
The phone won't boot normally. I get the kernel boot screen, sometimes a Samsung screen, and then it turns off. 2-3 seconds max.
I can get it into download mode, but after 3-4 seconds, it spontaneously shuts off.
Recovery mode (CWM) is completely stable. I can get in, make back ups, perform a key test, etc. When I run a key test, it shows that the power button is a little sensitive, but not crazy. If I jiggle it some (mostly back a little) it registers a key press, even if I'm not fully pressing it. If I do press it fully, sometimes it doesn't register.
If this is really a button issue, why is recovery stable? Even if I put the phone on a flat surface with nothing that could touch the button, the phone still doesn't stay in download mode (it just shuts off.) When I put the phone in recovery, place it on a flat surface, and perform the key test, the phone isn't registering a key touch.
I've tried 3 different batteries, kept the phone plugged in, popped the battery and held the power button to discharge everything, wiped the cache, wiped dalvik cache, and used CWM touch to reboot (and avoid the power button all together.)
The only think I can think of that's maybe different is that gapps was FC'ing more than normal this morning (before the phone crapped out.)
I'm running StockMOD ROM 4.4.2 R2 with the Ktoonsez Kernel for TouchWiz 4.4.2.
EDIT: Also, when it's plugged in, the LED doesn't light up. I'm not sure that it's actually charging. I do have a wall charger, so I can verify that the batteries I'm using are charged.
Try flashing a different rom from recovery to see if it still happens. Also try a factory reset. If you get as close to stock as possible and it still happens it raises the probability thst its hardware.
If you put the battery in and wait a few moments does it turn on by itself?
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@DocHoliday77 I messed with the phone a little later tonight and recovery became unstable. I'm convinced it's a power button problem now. I think the internal mechanism gets stuck and that's the issue.
When I put the battery in, the phone does try to boot by itself.
I used the advice in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53915864 and I was able to get up and running again. I opened the phone up, blew some compressed air on the button, tapped the flat side of the button lightly a few times with the end of my screwdriver, and put everything back together. I was able to get back into recovery, and then reboot normally.
I ordered a new power button and I plan on replacing it next week when it gets here, just to be on the safe side.
You guys at xda are life savers!
The booting up on its own after inserting the battery is a classic symptom of the power button going bad. Glad to hear you got it working for now, and that you are ordering a replacement. Everyone ive heard about getting it to work using any number of methods have always found it to only be a temporary solution.
Just a thought, in case it starts up again, maybe remove the plastic piece until you replace the switch. Hopefully that would help prevent it from getting accidentally pressed in your pocket or by bumping it into something. (You could probably still access it with a toothpick or something like that if needed)
I agree it's the power button. I just posted about my little experience on Google+
I tried seriously whacking it on the floor and everything. I wouldn't recommend that but I had no warranty and no funds for repair. Others had said that beating the crap out of it worked so I thought why not lol...
https://plus.google.com/116004961340303353216/posts/ig2ogLeUWJ8
Long story short, my beating it up didn't work but it did wake it up. It falling on the floor however, jarred whatever was stuck and it now works like a charm...good luck