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[Q] Note 2 just wont turn on

I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?

soljakid said:
I recently bought a new note 2, and everything was good and I love it!
But yesterday I was on the phone to a friend and initially I tried putting him on speaker phone, but the screen wouldn't turn on, only the soft touch keys at the bottom lit up. I thought nothing of it and continued my phone call.
It wasn't until he hung up I noticed i still coudn't the damn thing on. So i removed the battery and re inserted it. Here's where things get interesting though, now whenever i try to power it up, i get a little red light in my proximity sensor (i think) that flashes for about half a second.
I've tried soft rest, which does the same thing ( makes the proximity sensor light up for half a second)
Hard reset which does the same thing.
I haven't rooted the phone or anything. Luckily its still under manufacture warranty and I'll get samsung to have a look at it, but any thoughts on what it could be?
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Well, I can tell the that the red light is normal, I get that too and its just because its booting up, when you turn your phone on, what happens exactly?

Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.

soljakid said:
Thanks for the reply. When I press the power button, around a second later the red light blips for half a second and turns off, but the OS doesn't boot up and nothing happens.
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Hmmm, This is the first time I heard of a situation like this... Try searching on the site or probably wait for someone to reply....

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2065626
Maybe you too.... Sorry that sucks.
This PSA was sent Flow style from my Note 2 N-7100

Now i am really getting worriyng about this, does note2 has started SDS ?
atleast 3-4 cases are reported with same symptoms.
Anyway can you tell
You were on which ROM when this happened?
Are you getting to reboot in recovery/download mod?

@dingokevin I had a read over the thread you linked, and I fear the worst has happened to my note 2. This seems like a serious issue and even a flaw with the motherboard perhaps? Thank the lord it is still under warranty. R.I.P old friend.
@dr.ketan Im not sure what SDS stands for... Yeah I was running stock touchwiz 4.1.1 I think. No modifications and no root what so ever, and nope :/ I tried holding down volume down key + home button + power but no cigar, just the proximity light flashes briefly.

SDS - sudden death syndrome
And if you are unable to get into download/recovery mode then nothing can be done except send it to service station. it highly suggests sudden death which is very known issue for SGS3.
Replying to your query at other thread, you will get motherboard replacement if it is under warranty.

Ahh thats probably whats happened then. Thanks guys, I'll send it off to samsung and have a word or two with them to see why this is happening to many people!

If possible share outcome here too.
Regards

dr.ketan said:
If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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Yeah defiantly will do. (Y) cheers

Same thing happened to my friends note 2 and some other people. Is sds happening to the note 2 also now ?? I am very worried
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Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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UtkarshGupta said:
Or could be that screen was damaged somehow.
Sds bug generally happened due to long time in sleep mode.
It happened to him during call
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I was just reading up on some possible causes here on XDA with peoples S3's and someone suggested corrupted NAND memory.. I think this maybe the case because before the phone call I had installed Gangster Rio (which i honestly did purchase off the play store, hand on heart) and after playing it for a while decided to un install it and get a refund. Could me doing this have caused the NAND memory to corrupt? The game is a pretty large file...

No imao no
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UtkarshGupta said:
No imao no
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I highly doubt it was screen damage, imho. I only received the phone last friday and have been cradling it like a fragile little baby, Its never been out of my sight lool.
Maybe i just got really unlucky and ended up with a faulty device.

If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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dr.ketan said:
If screen fault then in such case usually you can hear boot up sound. It seems your case very well fits to sds category only.
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Thank you good Dr. =P

dr.ketan said:
If possible share outcome here too.
Regards
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Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.

MJLONGLEY said:
Hi Guys,
Got up this morning having left my Note 2 turned on and on charge overnight to discover this same fault -
slow flashing Red light and phone totally dead.
Unable to do anything to rectify the situation.
Still under warranty of course, phone only released in October 2012.
Is this a fault with the phone which necessitates replacement or just a battery problem?
Would be grateful for any advice / guidance / help.
Thanks,
Mike Longley.
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It seems also like SDS send it to Repair AFAIK is a chip problem, not battery so you can't do anything to repair it. If it is under warranty and with counter at 0 send it. They must repair it.
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[Q] SDS Sudden Death Syndrome (CALLING SPRINT?)

Hey guys!
QUICK SPECS:
- SPH-L710RWBSPR (Marble White 16gb version)
- Under a year old
Okay so I'm almost certain my s3 has Sudden Death Syndrome as it won't turn on each time, and fails to stay on after occasionally turning on once. The power button has failed I can tell, as the power menu randomly pops up when its on, and then BOOM the screen goes black and it's off again. I have tried multiple batteries, download mode, recovery mode, usb recognition from the computer, heck even adb into recovery.. NO AVAIL. So, all in all, my beautiful phone - is now an :angel:
Now --- my question is! WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO SPRINT OVER THE PHONE? In order to get a free replacement phone? There's no Samsung Service Center around me and so I must go through Sprint. I just don't want to deal with any representatives that think the way to deal with customers is like a child. ESPECIALLY when the customer could do their job better than them. ANYWAY, /endrant. I read from a post it's safe to say, ""I charged my phone for 3 hours before bed.. unplugged it... and screen flashed white... and it keeps rebooting itself and it wont stop.."...Do NOT tell them you left it on the charger for 5+ hours!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thats possible internal damage and voids warranty.""
Should I do that, or just tell the truth and say "My phone has the Sudden Death Syndrome and I would like a replacement."
Thanks guys, I appreciate the input.
Colton

Um idk where you read the 5+ hours can hurt your phone. Every newer electronic device has overload protection built into it.
I would just explain to them whats happening. They most likely will walk you through the usual trouble shooting steps. Or you can take it to a Authorized Sprint Service center.
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Speedin07si said:
Um idk where you read the 5+ hours can hurt your phone. Every newer electronic device has overload protection built into it.
I would just explain to them whats happening. They most likely will walk you through the usual trouble shooting steps. Or you can take it to a Authorized Sprint Service center.
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Okay, thanks man. I'm just worried about the whole "if your're rooted your warranty is void" thing. Because I'm running a custom ROM on my phone, but if it is impossible to boot up, Sprint won't be able to tell right? So I'm all good right?

If they get it booted up, then yes they could. I've seen a Authorized Sprint Service center repair a broken power button. But I've also seen them just issue a refurb. It depends on the tech that looks at it. Idk if they would just issue you a refurb over the phone without one of their techs looking at it.
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Speedin07si said:
If they get it booted up, then yes they could. I've seen a Authorized Sprint Service center repair a broken power button. But I've also seen them just issue a refurb. It depends on the tech that looks at it. Idk if they would just issue you a refurb over the phone without one of their techs looking at it.
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Yes they could look at it, but it's not just the power button that's broken. The issue with Sudden Death Syndrome is that it's an eMMC Firmware malfunction and so the chip is messed up, and so basically this is all Samsung's fault, not mine. I have read in this case, I would not get a refurbished phone, I would get a brand new replacement.
Also, I have tried to see if I can revert to stock again. But in my situation, is there any way to even do that? My computer doesn't recognize my phone when I try to connect it, and I can't get into download mode or recovery or anything.
Could I possibly try this method? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43305728 even if my phone has the SDS issue?

EMMC failure issue was only for the international i9300 US s3s aren't effected by that
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Notorious said:
EMMC failure issue was only for the international i9300 US s3s aren't effected by that
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This^
The SDS forQualcomm S3's is that the power button gets sunken in its socket, or otherwise damaged and causes the phone to continuously power itself off.

Notorious said:
EMMC failure issue was only for the international i9300 US s3s aren't effected by that
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Oh, okay. So can my phone still have Sudden Death Syndrome though? It would just be a malfunction of the power button?
Also, do you by chance think my phone could be revived following the process of this thread? : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2345860&page=3

CNexus said:
This^
The SDS forQualcomm S3's is that the power button gets sunken in its socket, or otherwise damaged and causes the phone to continuously power itself off.
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Okay, have you come across a fix in my situation then?
Compressed air can? Hitting the power button on the end of a washer? What do you think Cnexus?

LOL. Don't do the second one. Unless you have an upgrade/money to buy a new phone...
Compressed air has helped people. Also taking it apart and messing with the power button a bit and then putting it back together, as well as just jiggling the power button around
All you really need is for it to stay alive long enough for you to boot into DL mode and Odin back to stock

CNexus said:
LOL. Don't do the second one. Unless you have an upgrade/money to buy a new phone...
Compressed air has helped people. Also taking it apart and messing with the power button a bit and then putting it back together, as well as just jiggling the power button around
All you really need is for it to stay alive long enough for you to boot into DL mode and Odin back to stock
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Alright cool I'll do that man. Do I just youtube "how to take a galaxy s3 apart and mess with power button" or what? Is there a guide somehwere? I'll have to buy a small screwdriver right?
And odin to stock MD4 right?
Also, there's no hope for backing up my phone at this point right? I haven't backed it up in a while.

[Q] Odd brick situation Tmobile SGH-T999 (Cant find exact answer)

Hey everybody,
I rooted my phone a couple weeks ago and one day it just pooped out. I researched a bunch on google etc and found some things to try but so far no solutions.
Model: SGH-T999 T-mobile s3 (Used CF-Auto-Root and Odin for rooting)
Problem: After the phone pooped out, I was unable to enter recovery mode. I could enter dl mode however it crashes at variable intervals. So I bought a jig figuring maybe that would help but it still crashes in dl about 5 seconds later. Any suggestions?
Everything that I have found on the internet has been were people can usually get it into dl mode and keep it there or they cant get there at all even with a jig. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

If you were running stock it's probably a hardware problem. If not what Rom are you on? What/when/how was your most recent flashes?
Have you tried kAsp3rd's brick fix in dev section?
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DocHoliday77 said:
If you were running stock it's probably a hardware problem. If not what Rom are you on? What/when/how was your most recent flashes?
Have you tried kAsp3rd's brick fix in dev section?
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I just tried the kasperd brick fix and it didnt work. It still crashes at variable times and I cannot get it into download mode long enough to do anything. I tried a jig and it also still crashes. Any help would be great. Thanks!

Does it turn off? Reboot? Freeze?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Does it turn off? Reboot? Freeze?
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It starts and then crashes. After awhile it might make it to the animation with the blue wave forming around the words samsung, but usually it crashes on the Samsung Galaxy SIII logo in the beginning. Also when I put it into download mode it crashes anywhere from 1-5 seconds after. When I try to get into recovery mode it crashes almost right away when the blue words are at the top left of the screen.
Also when I put the battery in it tries to boot on its own without me pressing power button, and sometimes it tries to reboot after it crashes and turns off without me pressing anything. Also after it crashes I usually cannot just press the power button to try and power it up again so I have to take the battery out and put it back in.
When I was doing the Kasperd brick fix I used the T999 debrick image. How do I know if I have a different variant of the T999. I saw that some people had T999v and T999N. What are those?

Look under the battery for your model. Sounds like a power button issue. All I can say is try fiddling with it a bit. May have to open to see if it is physically always in contact, or it could be a deeper issue on the board. Hard to say.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Look under the battery for your model. Sounds like a power button issue. All I can say is try fiddling with it a bit. May have to open to see if it is physically always in contact, or it could be a deeper issue on the board. Hard to say.
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Ok I just see T999 on the label.
How can it be a hardware issue when I never dropped the phone or anything. I was just thinking it was because I rooted the phone because it happened about a week after I rooted it. It was working one minute and then a couple hours later when I took it out of my pocket it was off and I tried turning it on and all that stuff started happening. I will definitely check the power button though. Thanks for the help.
Also another piece of info to add. When I plug it in to charge both the battery charging symbol and red light will sometimes turn on and then it crashes/goes black similar to what happens when trying to power up the phone. Not sure if that helps at all. Thanks!
If my phone was hard bricked I wouldnt be able to turn it on at all correct? Im trying to figure out if I will need to get this thing jtagged or something in order to get it working again.

phillycheese917 said:
How can it be a hardware issue when I never dropped the phone or anything.
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Physical damage is not a prerequisite of hardware failure. Ever have a hard drive go bad? Did you drop it first?

Aerowinder said:
Physical damage is not a prerequisite of hardware failure. Ever have a hard drive go bad? Did you drop it first?
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True, however I just find it odd that I rooted the phone and a week later it happened. That is why I am leading towards an issue involving that and not hardware damage.

If it was a problem with rooting, it would have gone south right away. Many people are having these button issues recently. And you don't have to drop it, like aerowinder said, but you do use the button right? Moving parts wear out. Hardware fails. That's really all there is to it. While I could be wrong in my diagnosis, I don't think that will prove to be the case here.
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It does most certainly sound like a hardware issue in the power button. I read another thread very similar to this same thing on the T999.

KAsp3rd said:
It does most certainly sound like a hardware issue in the power button. I read another thread very similar to this same thing on the T999.
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Any suggestions on what to do from here? I dont think the phone is under warranty anymore.
I took the back casing off to see if the button is getting stuck or anything, but all the mechanics look normal.

phillycheese917 said:
Any suggestions on what to do from here? I dont think the phone is under warranty anymore.
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I would recommend searching around for others who have had the same issue and seeing what their resolutions were. I've not seen many on here but google turned up quite a few.

KAsp3rd said:
I would recommend searching around for others who have had the same issue and seeing what their resolutions were. I've not seen many on here but google turned up quite a few.
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Thanks guys! I found a good thread on here about the S3 sudden death thread. Im going to read up on that and see what I can do. It was just tough to find since I was thinking it was bricked but the descriptions for this power button sudden death thing sound spot on. Hopefully I will be able to get everything back in working order.

Another chance.

soooo i bought a t989 before from a friend for 60 bucks, best day of my life, it was in terrible condition but i still loved this sweet mama. now i only had it for a week before i bricked it, i was pretty pissed and pretty sad ever since. now as i have been coming by new cousins and grandfathers for this phone i have though about somehow still trying to revive this beauty. now i knew about jtaging but i was not going to spend another 60 bucks on jtag services. i recently talked to a friend who owns a S3 right now and he said he had a t989 before and is willing to sell it to me for 20 bucks, he says when you turn it on the screen only stays on for 10sec and the display turns off, he thinks its still on when it turns off so would you guys think its possible to take the screen off my first t989 and put it on this one? what do you guys think i can do?

Maybe just a sticky power button or just needs flashed to stock???
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holeindalip said:
Maybe just a sticky power button or just needs flashed to stock???
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i dont think its the power button, the backlight of the display turns off itself, so the phone is still on and you can hear notifications. and i was thinking when i get it today im going to check out the stock recovery mode first and see if the backlight turns off then. most likely the os is corrupt and needs a factory.

[Q] Samsung Galaxy Note2 screen freeze issue.

Hi everyone. Got samsung galaxy note 2 and i dont know whats happened but i am not able to turn on my device anymore. I just see white screen with grey lines. If trying to make hard restore holding volume up button+meniu+switch on button it doesnt work. I just see same frozen screen but if i hold volume down key+meniu+switch on button the phone goes to downloading mode. Is any ideas how can i fix my phone? Please help Thanks in advance.

Only thing I can say is go to your local Samsung Service Centre and get it checked.
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froggy28 said:
Hi everyone. Got samsung galaxy note 2 and i dont know whats happened but i am not able to turn on my device anymore. I just see white screen with grey lines. If trying to make hard restore holding volume up button+meniu+switch on button it doesnt work. I just see same frozen screen but if i hold volume down key+meniu+switch on button the phone goes to downloading mode. Is any ideas how can i fix my phone? Please help Thanks in advance.
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Is it still under warranty?

If your note 2 is not under warranty, I suggest you go to download mode and flash a stock ROM with Odin. If that's not the case you should probably send it back to Samsung, your carrier or whoever you send phones back to . ^^
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Yes, its still under warranty. I will bring my phone to phone repair shop tomorrow and see if somebody can fix it.
I just never flashed any type of ROM to my phone, so scared to make it even worse, but thanks for suggestion anyway

Hopefully you'll get it fixed under your warranty. It doesn't look like it's not the LCD's fault as it seems to be working when you get to download mode. So don't let them rip you off on a new LCD.
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Sudden Death Syndrome
Hi there
This is known as Sudden Death Syndrome, it's caused by a faulty memory chip. My Note2 just came back from repairs for this problem, they replaced the PC board and all seems to be well now.
It will have to go in for repairs.

Hello. How much did you pay for repair or it was under warranty and you had nothing to pay?
Thank you.
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froggy28 said:
Hello. How much did you pay for repair or it was under warranty and you had nothing to pay?
Thank you.
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Luckily it was under warranty so it didn't cost me anything :good:

having the same problems... going Samsung Service Center tomorrow.

i had the same problems, freezing and rebooting in download mode, i was sure i had to throw phone away, then i was almost ready to bring the phone to assistance, but first i decided to try to flash other roms just for fun like aosp, leaked etc and also i reflashed different versions of mj5 bootloader found on different posts many times (now i'm on revhd23)... and... surprise surprise the phone seems reborn... very fast smooth and no freeze, sorry i don't have any explanation for this!