After using my phone for about 2 hours I stuck it in my pocket for as I was about to go into a meeting. After the meeting I pulled my phone out and it turned on (thought it was strange because I never turned it off) and I began to use it. Stuck it back in my pocket and after a couple minutes I pulled it out again to call someone but the phone was off again! I tried turning it back on and it just keeps going to either the samsung boot logo or when its plugged in it goes to the battery logo. It only stays on either on for no more than 2 seconds. So used my friends phone to test if it was my battery that was broken on his s3. After swapping battery my phone still didn't turn on and with my battery in his phone it booted right up and even was up to 81% battery life!
My phone is rooted and its running just a stock rom from sammobile.
I have no idea what to do. Any suggestions besides calling tmobile? I do not have insurance and I bought it using my uncles contract since he didnt want another phone.
Thank you
Can you get into recovery? While the phone's off hold Volume Up+Home button+Power button and see if it goes into recovery.
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I have been rooted for a while and successfully flashed a few Roms/Kerenels using rom manager. I was flashing the newest version of Myn and one of the "warm" kernels that it offered with it. Everything was going normally the rom loaded fashed the rom and kerenel the phone was reseting then out of nowhere i got the image of the white box and android guy with an arrw as if to say "android taken out of box" I left it like that for about 5 min then took the batt out and tried to reset it. I got the same image then i tried vol. up & power it vibrated 3x and did nothing. My buddy had the same problem yesterday and he got it workin. I called him and he said all he did was pull batt/restart over and over till it booted normally. I tried that about 10x then it would not turn on again. Plugged it in, no response no led light up.
Am I bricked past the point of no return, and if not what can I do to get back in business
Stay calm, pull battery out for 5 minutes and then put it back in, then put charger in and see if LED comes on.
did that batt was out for about 20 min plugged it back in nothing
let phone charge 30 minutes
will do.. from what you know does this sound like a typical brick scenario? I feel like I didnt do anything different from all the other times I flashed roms/kerenels it just kinda flipped out on me this time?
it just happened to me, my phone wouldnt turn on or charge. Pull out battery for 1 minutre, (make sure phone isnt plugged in) out battery in, DONT PLUG IN CHARGER YET.
power phone on, once u see the white evo splashscreen, plug charger in and wait seconds and u will see LED turn on.
keep me updated
No mtter what I do or at least nothing ive tried I cannot get the Evo to respond by turning on or lighting up or doing anything
To get into bootloader, you need to press and hold vol *down* and power. Sometimes mine is finicky...be sure to firmly press those buttons, and keep them just as firmly held until you see the bootloader screen.
If that doesn't work, you might have a dead battery. Can you swap batteries with a friend?
I had this happen to me with my girls evo. Its usually related to overheating. Do you happen to have a second battery? If yu had an htc hero, they have same battery. Worked for me.
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This happened to me while flashing the newest EViO. Don't worry, if your phone turns on a little youre most likely fine.
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Never got it working or turned on but I took it to a Sprint tech center andt they gave me a new one... It would not power on even when they opened it up. they just replaced it.
Ok so I decided to flash back to stock rom using this RUU_Marvel_Virgin_Mobile_1.37.351.1_Radio_47.10.35 .3029H_7.46.35.08_release_188032_signed until somebody had a stable rom available. So as I was running the ruu phone goes to reboot and never starts back up. So, I try to turn it back on and it vibrates 3 times and screen stays dark. I tried again to turn it on and nothing. So, I pull the battery and replace it 30 seconds later and it does the same thing vibrates 3 times and stays black. I've tried booting without the sd card and have been back and forth pulling and replacing the battery. Does anybody know of any cures for this or am I stuck? I bought the phone from a best buy on saturday and still have my receipt. Should I just exchange it if they'll let me which I think they should since it's only been two days since purchase. Any advice out there????
Look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1345273
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So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
zander21510 said:
So I'm watching tv, and I plug in my phone to charge it a bit because the GPS had gotten stuck on this morning and I burned my battery down to 40%. All of a sudden I hear it buzzing over and over again...like a reboot loop.
So I pull it out of the charger, pull the battery and let it try to boot. Gives the samsung screen for a moment, then flickers, and again to the reboot loop. Holding down power for 10 sec makes it do the same thing, I can't force it into recovery or DL mode without it bootlooping either! At one point I was able to get to the download mode screen, but just 3 seconds and the screen goes black, and back to bootlooping.
I literally did nothing to it. Only thing I did different today was the GPS got stuck (which it has done before), I rebooted the phone, then when it booted again I went ahead and just shut off the GPS. But this was like 20 minutes before this started happening.
So what can I do? Right now its plugged into my computer charging while off, seems to be the only thing it can do without bootlooping.
Running CM9.1 Nightly 9/3 with included kernel and LC8 radio (I think)
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My first guess is your battery is shot. i was gonna recommend the power button failure but if its staying off it might not be that. but id let it charge fully then try to boot up.
Thanks, oddly after a bit of messing around finally got it to boot up. Immediately backed up in CWM....seems to be acting OK now. Idk what happened...
i'll guess, the USB connector got short-circuited when you plugged in, and it caused a cascade failure that fried the SD card or something else inside the phone
there was a factory defect back then with the old SGS 1 (i9000m) model, they fixed that after the 3rd batch, everyone with an old phone from 1st and 2nd release batches, were able to exchange i for a new one.
however in your case, that's not a factory defect, but you plugged it wrong (my guess)
because it has happened to me before when i plugged it in, but the battery was still not charging even after several minutes, yet the phone was getting really really hot
then i unplug, and plug it back in and got the sound feedback "tuu tuud" and then it was actually charging after a few minutes
the first time around even though the charging icon changed, there was no feed back sound, and that was the key, it was not plugged in properly.
so after that time, i always made sure to verify to make sure the phone was plugged in properly and not just relay on he visual icon.
check back after a few minutes, to make sure the phone doesn't get very hot, and it actually increased 1%
It happened again today! After a full charge overnight and no problems for the day up to a little while ago, I opened my email app, it froze, then proceeded to start boot looping. I'm in class so I don't have my computer to try to bring it out of it...so yeah that sucks...
I do remember when I got it to charge yesterday it showed it was charging for 20-30 minutes, but after I "revived" it, I found it hadn't charged at all.
I have been using a Nokia USB cable to charge my phone since I got it, because it was longer than the cheapie Samsung cable that came with it...but it hasn't ever caused problems before. And it charged just fine last night.
How long is the warranty on these things thru tmobile? I may just swap it out while I still can.
Also on an unrelated note, I upgraded to the LG3 radio because I was meaning to anyways...
I pulled it out of it again! This time I held the power button while putting the battery in, when it vibrated I let go, it vibrated again, showed the Samsung logo, and then booted like normal
May I ask what rom are you currently on?
datrapstar said:
May I ask what rom are you currently on?
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CM9.1 nightly 9/3 with included kernel
It did it a third time during class while it was in my pocket, the power button trick didn't work this time, I had to pull the battery after the samsung logo, plugging it back in to get it to boot...but...
near the end of the CM9 boot animation, when it vibrates and the auto brightness kicks in, it started it again! I have yet to revive it...
This is a bit upsetting because I had just got CM9 the way I liked it and I don't exactly have the time right now to mess with warranty and a new phone...I would like to fix it.
There are about 20 different threads on here on how to revert to stock...let me as a last ditch try to revert to stock and see if it keeps doing it...unless somebody has any ideas...
I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
zander21510 said:
I was working in recovery mode, i super-wiped my phone to see if installing a ROM from scratch would help, and my phone even does it in recovery mode. Warranty time.
So whats the fastest way to restore to stock? Who knows how long I will have after reviving it before it breaks again.
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Here you go!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30832325
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Well, finished playing stupid for T-Mobile, in two weeks I will have my replacement T989. Now all that's left is returning this thing to stock before it starts acting up again.
And my temporary replacement phone?
HTC Dream, aka the G1, the first Android phone! Lol what a difference...GB feels like a dinosaur...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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datrapstar said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1513359
[HOWTO]Restore to Stock/Recover from a Bad Flash. Could try the last 3 pages on this thread. That will help you go back to stock without an issue. Hell might make you wanna keep your phone if you can get it to work again.. good luck
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Thanks! got it all done, back to ugly, ugly stock lol...and just when I thought maybe I would have to brick it myself it did the reboot thing again...so pulled the battery and there it sits factory reset.
I'm using Jellybeast rom for a couple weeks now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885619
I plugged my phone in to my charger at work today, which is a regular occurrence. After about 20 minutes I checked on the charge level and found the phone to be really warm/hot. I unplugged it and let it sit for a while. Still hot at that point so I rebooted it and it would never get past the Galaxy S2 progress bar screen. Pulled the battery and left it out for my 1 hour drive home.
I'm at home now and put my SIM card into my Vibrant and my S2 still won't boot. It's also still getting warm when I try to boot it.
Is my S2 hosed at this point? I have the insurance on it, but would hate to lose my data on the internal SD. I really don't want to reset or flash a new ROM on it right now.
Edit: Pulled battery and plugged into charger. It's vibrating every couple seconds. No response to any button presses.
exoplasm said:
I'm using Jellybeast rom for a couple weeks now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1885619
I plugged my phone in to my charger at work today, which is a regular occurrence. After about 20 minutes I checked on the charge level and found the phone to be really warm/hot. I unplugged it and let it sit for a while. Still hot at that point so I rebooted it and it would never get past the Galaxy S2 progress bar screen. Pulled the battery and left it out for my 1 hour drive home.
I'm at home now and put my SIM card into my Vibrant and my S2 still won't boot. It's also still getting warm when I try to boot it.
Is my S2 hosed at this point? I have the insurance on it, but would hate to lose my data on the internal SD. I really don't want to reset or flash a new ROM on it right now.
Edit: Pulled battery and plugged into charger. It's vibrating every couple seconds. No response to any button presses.
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Not positive, but for some reason sounds like you are in a bootloop, or soft bricked.
You can wait and see what others say, but you may need to try to get into download mode and Odin flash stock....and go from there.
I've had the vibrate problem a couple times, usually after a bad flash of some sort tho. Fixed it with Odin.
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I had a similar problem when ever I would use cm10. So I just used Odin and went back to stock... I think im done flashing for a bit...honestly I think your might have to use Odin homie.
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Having major problems with my G3; started last night. I noticed that my phone was on the LG boot splash screen and was unresponsive. I reseated the battery and it seemed to be working fine after that. However a couple hours later it was completely dead. If I reseat the battery and turn it on now, The LG screen comes up for a couple seconds, then shuts off. Never get the Verizon screen. I tried to do a factory data reset on it, and get the menu but once I select Yes, the phone goes back to the LG screen for about 2 seconds then shuts off. I got it to go into TWRP once, but it shut off before I could do anything with it. It'll boot into download mode, and my system detects the COM port, but almost immediately the phone shuts down. The phone was running fine before this happened. Any thoughts? I'm really scratching my head over this one.
TLDR:
- phone rebooted last night, won't boot now. Keeps shutting off before I can get anywhere.
Sprint too
Same thing happened to my Sprint G3 on Saturday. Had over 90% battery and was texting a friend back and forth. I put it in my pocket and about 20min later when I took it out it was dead and wouldn't power back on. I took the battery out and put it back in hit the power button and the LG splash screen comes on, then phone dies and can't get a response from the power button. I can do that over and over, but it never gets past the splash screen. Tried to get into recovery, but when I do, buttons are unresponsive and then it just turns off.
Stock ROM, never rooted.
lg g3
Editor619 said:
Same thing happened to my Sprint G3 on Saturday. Had over 90% battery and was texting a friend back and forth. I put it in my pocket and about 20min later when I took it out it was dead and wouldn't power back on. I took the battery out and put it back in hit the power button and the LG splash screen comes on, then phone dies and can't get a response from the power button. I can do that over and over, but it never gets past the splash screen. Tried to get into recovery, but when I do, buttons are unresponsive and then it just turns off.
Stock ROM, never rooted.
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its a common issue in lg g3, replace ur battery it will be solved.
hit thank if i helped u
kp263 said:
its a common issue in lg g3, replace ur battery it will be solved.
hit thank if i helped u
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I don't think this is a battery issue. I have 2 batteries and the problem persists using either one. The first is the original battery that came with the phone and the second is an LG stock battery purchased through LG in April (only 3 months ago).
Update 7/12
I followed kp263's advice and ordered a new battery. Put it in the phone and plugged the charger in for a bit and..... same problem. Won't boot past the splash screen. Just turns off.
This is more than just a battery issue. Hopefully I can return the new battery I purchased.