My Galaxy S3 turns on go to splash screen and then goes black and a blue LED light turns on and sits there a vibrates what do i do Need help
We need more info. Is it rooted? If it is what where you running? What did you do before it died?
it was rooted and its still not dead i rooted it with odin and super su first the texting on it stoped working so i tried to fix that and installed the wrong package i think
Can you manually put it in download mode?
And what did you flash? Isnt Metro PCS S3 more related to Sprints or Verizons?
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Yea I believe the network is
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Did this happen after you flashed a rom? If so, you could try wiping the cache and dalvik cache if you can enter into recovery.
As stated before
Let us know if you can put it on Download mode. I had this issue with my tmob sgs3
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just yesterday i could put it into download mode now today i wont even turn on it just vibrates and nothing but when i put it on the charger it can go into download mode and i have no idea what i flashed it with
What do you mean when you charge your phone it can go to download mode? If so, charge it, get into download mode, take out charger, plug into computer, launch odin, and flash stock rom and kernel.
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Sorry for starting a new thread but im new to all of this and like the idiot i am i bricked my epic trying to flash back to DI18 using odin.
Now odin wont even read my phone as being pluged in!
Help me please!
Does your phone even go into download mode? Try pulling the battery and going into download mode again.
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Its alive!
Thanks for trying to help but i finally figured it out.
First of all, my phone did end up going into download mode but when it tried to turn on, the screen went black and and a phone and a computer on it with an '!' between.
After a while i finally got the phone to boot in recovery mode.
It still didnt read it on odin so i reinstalled the drivers and closed odin.
I also had to wipe the cache on my phone.
After an hour or so... i finally got it to read on odin and applied the tar and it finally turned on!
Sorry for wasting ur time...
Yesterday i rooted and tried to install a Rom and used Rom manager to go into recovery mode. I thought you had to do the down+home+power and now when I try to do anything it wont work power button 20 sec , power+home , up/down+power+home,nothing.When i tried plug it into the computer it makes that sound when something failed to connect to the pc. When i tried holding the power button i hear the sound of the device successfully connect to the pc but when i look theres no phone on the computer and when i let go of the power button it stops. Any help would be very much appreciated and i will never do anything to risk my device being broken again...
What did you install? Link the ROM or at least the name of the ROM.
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What did you install? Link the ROM or at least the name of the ROM.
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I didnt install anything all i did was use rom manager to go into recovery mode i was trying to install a jelly bean rom but recovery mode never showed up
Did you modify your build.prop?
Can you still access the download mode? If yes try to flash back a stock rom with odin.
Or remove the battery and try again to boot up in download mode.
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Can you still access the download mode? If yes try to flash back a stock rom with odin.
Or remove the battery and try again to boot up in download mode.
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No i cant acess anything download mode or clockwork recovery , cant connecty to pc cant turn on just a black screen...
Its volume up&home button&power you will see little blue text in the top left let go of buttons.
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Try a different usb slot sometimes a usb slot may malfunction I had that problem.
Also don't use a usb extender hub if you are it may screw with the voltage.
a new usb I'm sure you've heard that one but this has the least chance of working because you the s3 makes the noise which means the usb works
Try a new computer and check that you have Kies installed
Try to restart the laptop that also helps
Hope I helped you out
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Which Rom were u trying to flash be specific.
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Unfortunately, I have this exact same problem. I'm really scared that I may have bricked my device...
The last time my phone was working, I simply updated my phone to CM10's latest update for the phone. Everything was working perfectly fine. All I did was download the latest rom from get.cm for my sgs3.
Then I read online that this new 4.1.2 rom came out. As a new member XDA won't allow me to post the link of the rom...but you can find it in the Original Development Thread of the T-Mobile SGS3. Slim-i9300-2.7.0-OFFICIAL is the name of the rom [I copied it directly].
After making a backup of my current rom, installing this rom and installing the new gapps, I rebooted the device and nothing has worked since... [this happened about 12 hours ago].
Now, when I take out the battery and plug the charger in, the notification light becomes solid red. But nothing works...I can't go into download mode, I can't go into recovery. I knew this immediately when the phone did not vibrate after me holding down the power button for a few minutes.
The red notification light only turns on when I plug in the phone when the battery is out. If I put the battery in, after a few moments it goes away. I honestly thought maybe the battery was just dead...but I left it plugged in all night and I still can't do anything with the phone.
Please, any help for me and whtnld would be much appreciated...
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Did you mod the build.prop for any reason? (Google wallet maybe?)
If you did and then tried to update/install recovery through Rom Manager, it may have tried to install the wrong recovery on the wrong partition, resulting in a hard brick.
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jeikei4life said:
Unfortunately, I have this exact same problem. I'm really scared that I may have bricked my device...
The last time my phone was working, I simply updated my phone to CM10's latest update for the phone. Everything was working perfectly fine. All I did was download the latest rom from get.cm for my sgs3.
Then I read online that this new 4.1.2 rom came out. As a new member XDA won't allow me to post the link of the rom...but you can find it in the Original Development Thread of the T-Mobile SGS3. Slim-i9300-2.7.0-OFFICIAL is the name of the rom [I copied it directly].
After making a backup of my current rom, installing this rom and installing the new gapps, I rebooted the device and nothing has worked since... [this happened about 12 hours ago].
Now, when I take out the battery and plug the charger in, the notification light becomes solid red. But nothing works...I can't go into download mode, I can't go into recovery. I knew this immediately when the phone did not vibrate after me holding down the power button for a few minutes.
The red notification light only turns on when I plug in the phone when the battery is out. If I put the battery in, after a few moments it goes away. I honestly thought maybe the battery was just dead...but I left it plugged in all night and I still can't do anything with the phone.
Please, any help for me and whtnld would be much appreciated...
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You flashed an intl rom. Hard bricked. Need JTAG repair or replace unit.
I was about to say, isn't the i9300 the intl version? the tgh-t999 is the TMOUS version.
You have to let go of the power button to get into recovery.
jeikei4life said:
Unfortunately, I have this exact same problem. I'm really scared that I may have bricked my device...
The last time my phone was working, I simply updated my phone to CM10's latest update for the phone. Everything was working perfectly fine. All I did was download the latest rom from get.cm for my sgs3.
Then I read online that this new 4.1.2 rom came out. As a new member XDA won't allow me to post the link of the rom...but you can find it in the Original Development Thread of the T-Mobile SGS3. Slim-i9300-2.7.0-OFFICIAL is the name of the rom [I copied it directly].
After making a backup of my current rom, installing this rom and installing the new gapps, I rebooted the device and nothing has worked since... [this happened about 12 hours ago].
Now, when I take out the battery and plug the charger in, the notification light becomes solid red. But nothing works...I can't go into download mode, I can't go into recovery. I knew this immediately when the phone did not vibrate after me holding down the power button for a few minutes.
The red notification light only turns on when I plug in the phone when the battery is out. If I put the battery in, after a few moments it goes away. I honestly thought maybe the battery was just dead...but I left it plugged in all night and I still can't do anything with the phone.
Please, any help for me and whtnld would be much appreciated...
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Easy Way to find out if it's hard bricked is to connect your phone to pc... If pc displays qhsusb - I forget what else then you are hard bricked and need to jtag fix it which should run you around 60 buxs. Sorry bud if that's the case but next time don't flash anything i9300 if you have a t999
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chrisram88 said:
Easy Way to find out if it's hard bricked is to connect your phone to pc... If pc displays qhsusb - I forget what else then you are hard bricked and need to jtag fix it which should run you around 60 buxs. Sorry bud if that's the case but next time don't flash anything i9300 if you have a t999
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I rooted my t999 yesterday got rooted but when i tried to flash cwm touch using mobile odin app i think i bricked it because it wont turn on either. Someone is it fixable since it wasnt a rom i tried to flash.
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I rooted my t999 yesterday got rooted but when i tried to flash cwm touch using mobile odin app i think i bricked it because it wont turn on either. Someone is it fixable since it wasnt a rom i tried to flash.
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Can you boot into download mode? Volume Down + home + power button?
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Rom manager is too buggy imo. Goo manager and TWRP recovery is the way to go next time.
So I was running CM10 and decided to go back to something else until it got a little more stable. So I downloaded the Epic 4G stock package for Odin, untarred it and created a Heimdall package from the contents of the Odin archive. According to Heimdall the flash was successful. However now my phone won't boot. Can't even get into download mode. Even tried doing the download mode key sequence and attempting to detect it even though nothing is showing up on the screen. Nothing.. =(. Did I manage to completely brick my phone?
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So I was running CM10 and decided to go back to something else until it got a little more stable. So I downloaded the Epic 4G stock package for Odin, untarred it and created a Heimdall package from the contents of the Odin archive. According to Heimdall the flash was successful. However now my phone won't boot. Can't even get into download mode. Even tried doing the download mode key sequence and attempting to detect it even though nothing is showing up on the screen. Nothing.. =(. Did I manage to completely brick my phone?
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are you using a mac? I don't think heimdall is completely stable on that. try taking the battery out, and pressing 1 and power and hold while putting the battery back in. If it doesnt work you could always sell it to me
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are you using a mac? I don't think heimdall is completely stable on that. try taking the battery out, and pressing 1 and power and hold while putting the battery back in. If it doesnt work you could always sell it to me
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Built heimdall 1.31 from source on Arch Linux. Used this same build a while back to flash cwm5 with no issue. Tried holding 1 and power while putting battery in. Nothing happened...
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Sorry. It did occur to me that I posted in the wrong forum after the fact...
Just ordered a USB jig from Amazon that might get me into DL mode...we'll see...
same thing happened to me with a i9000 and archlinux too, usb jig didn't work either, sent the phone to repair and they told me to change the motherboard.
Oye.... So my brother's girlfriend's T989 (Same model as myself) did the kies update to 4.1.2. All was well for a little while, but now every time she plugs her phone in (I believe just into the computer, but need to verify) it goes into download mode. The phone additionally does random reboots and crashes.. All is stock, no root. I had her use the stock recovery to wipe the cache and factory reset, and still not working.
I RDP'd to her PC and tried to ODIN to stock, but since it automagically goes into download mode when you plug it in, I'm not sure how it's communicating with ODIN and if it's even taking the flash.
Any thoughts, or anyone seen this before? The worst thing is she lives 6 hours away, so everything I do is a walkthrough or RDP.
Let me know if anyone has any suggestions..
Thanks!
I find that I get that download mode issue if I'm not using the charger and cable that came with the phone.
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I find that I get that download mode issue if I'm not using the charger and cable that came with the phone.
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I've read that before... I'm going to verify
Hey all...and to answer the number one question, yes I did do A TON of searches already to find a solution...PLEASE HELP if you have the knowledge
Phone Model: Galaxy S III (SPH-L710) Sprint 16gb
Firmware/ROM: All stock and never tried ANY customization
Problem: I think the problem happened when the phone auto updated to 4.3. Now when the phone tries to boot it just boots to the second Samsung "Samsung Galaxy S III" screen, reboots and then will get to the same screen and just sits there. One time I even let it sit there for 30 minutes just to see if it needed the ridiculous amount of time. When I try to get the phone into recovery mode (Volume UP/Home key/then the Power key) it will boot and on the first Samsung "Samsung" screen, in the top left corner in small print, it shows "booting recovery...". Then it will just go strait to the second Samsung screen then keeps rebooting twice before it will just stop on the second Samsung screen again. When I try to get the phone into ODIN mode (Volume DOWN/Home key/then the Power key) it will boot asking me if I'm sure and to press Volume UP to continue. Once I press Volume UP, to continue, I get to ODIN mode. In the top left corner it shows...
ODIN MODE
Product Name: SPH-710
Custom Binary Download: No
Current Binary: Samsung Official
System Status: Official
(all grayed out) Qualcomm Secureboot: ENABLE
Then in the middle of the screen is the little Android guy. Below that it shows, "Downloading..." "Do not turn off target!!". And it just sits there doing nothing else.
I'm pretty sure I have done everything I could possible do to get it working again. From what I understand there may be other things I can do. Worse case scenario, if I must, I would be willing to loose everything on the phone and start over from scratch, if that's even possible.
There has to be some VERY smart people on here that can help me. This is my wife's phone and we don't have an upgrade until May...PLEASE HELP. Thanks all!!!
Okay 1st go to sammobile.com and download the firmware for d2att also you will need Odin I think it's 3.04. You can search odin on xda there are a few guides to use then put phone in download mode and use odin to flash the firmware, everything u need to follow is posted in sgsIII development forum
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Okay 1st go to sammobile.com and download the firmware for d2att also you will need Odin I think it's 3.04. You can search odin on xda there are a few guides to use then put phone in download mode and use odin to flash the firmware, everything u need to follow is posted in sgsIII development forum
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I already downloaded latest versions of both. It states, from phone off and unplugged, start phone using ODIN/download route then immediately plug into PC then open ODIN and click the button....but I cant get that far because ODIN app on PC never recognizes the phone to be able to do so.
I'm now starting to get very discouraged because i'm seeing in some places that the device needs to be put into USB debugging mode. Please tell me this isn't true. Because there has never been any reason to put the phone into USB debug mode.
Can someone please confirm this. I'm really crossing my finger that there is a way to do this without needing to be in USB debug mode...PLS PLS PLS!!!
Thanks for your reply
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jimchee said:
Okay 1st go to sammobile.com and download the firmware for d2att also you will need Odin I think it's 3.04. You can search odin on xda there are a few guides to use then put phone in download mode and use odin to flash the firmware, everything u need to follow is posted in sgsIII development forum
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He has the Sprint version, get the one for d2spr, correct?
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I already downloaded latest versions of both. It states, from phone off and unplugged, start phone using ODIN/download route then immediately plug into PC then open ODIN and click the button....but I cant get that far because ODIN app on PC never recognizes the phone to be able to do so.
I'm now starting to get very discouraged because i'm seeing in some places that the device needs to be put into USB debugging mode. Please tell me this isn't true. Because there has never been any reason to put the phone into USB debug mode.
Can someone please confirm this. I'm really crossing my finger that there is a way to do this without needing to be in USB debug mode...PLS PLS PLS!!!
Thanks for your reply
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You have to plug the device in from download mode AFTER Odin is running. So, phone in download mode, start Odin, then plug in. Before you go that far are you letting go of the buttons when trying to get to recovery as soon as you seen 'recovery starting' in the top left corner or are you still holding them? If you do not let go the device will continue to attempt a normal boot. If you can get into recovery and do a factory restore it very well may solve your boot issue.