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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Best I can say to you both is get a stronger cable if your not already using one and if you do have a cable other than the oem one then try leaving the battery out of the phone and hold the power button for about a minute to let the capacitors discharge then let it sit with the battery still out for about an hour :/ if you don't mind me asking, what happened to the phone before the issue started?
Try to Odin with the battery out.
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Try to Odin with the battery out.
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And with sd card out too
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Its possible to odin without the battery in? How does it populate the com and do you put it in download mode first then pull battery or just plug it and let it fly?
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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Ok so I just tried to flash with odin with battery out I did put it in dowload mode after plugging it up....I removed the sd card as well. Now it boots to the samsung screen but the difference is that now the red led stays lit and the capacitive keys on the bottom row do as well. Any suggestions?
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I am stuck while odin right now with battery in... Suppose I will pull battery and try without next...
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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In that case, I would make sure every last bit of moisture is out of the casing by leaving it covered by rice over night.... it might be short circuiting :/
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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That's just odd :/ I honestly haven't a clue as to what may be going wrong.... at least you made some progress with the capacitive buttons lighting up and your notification led is lighting, usually that's a sign it'll boot
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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I guess you are the phone whisperer lol
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Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Has anyone been able to boot into safe mode(hold power button and capacitive menu button) after the phone not booting normally?
im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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You can try a reflash, restore your previous nand backup and try again, or Odin in a prerooted ROM and start from there. But if it goes more than a minute on SAMSUNG you are done. After flashing the S will take a few minutes (or whatever boot screen the ROM has) while it rewrites Dalvik cache.
My epic is doing the same thing. It was stuck in recovery menu when I pulled it out of my pocket. Rebooted and stuck on sanding screen.
I figured out what I did. I installed wrong kernal... noob for me lol
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I cannot turn on my phone at all, the Samsung logo comes up, screen blacks out and the phone just vibrates once every couple of seconds. If I'm lucky the phone will sometimes boot up but freezes and turns back off. It's nearly impossible for me to boot into recovery and do anything as the phone shuts off seconds later. Anyone have any advice, I've looked all over and only found one other person with this problem and no fix
Are you doing the combo correctly, release power after vibrate continue holding volume keys? Did you drop the phone causing this? Try pulling battery first then try recovery
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Read this thread. This person had similar symptoms. Ended up being a faulty power button. He sent it in to mobiletechvideos.com and they fixed it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29016555
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Someone on here recently had the same problem.. It ended up being a faulty power button..
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Read this thread. This person had similar symptoms. Ended up being a faulty power button. He sent it in to mobiletechvideos.com and they fixed it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29016555
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Lmao great minds think alike
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Lmao great minds think alike
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Or we are both spending way to much time on XDA!
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Or we are both spending way to much time on XDA!
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I hate to say it but your right.. I got the Android app and I compulsively check it all day.. Lol. Time to find a new hobby I guess lol
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I hate to say it but your right.. I got the Android app and I compulsively check it all day.. Lol. Time to find a new hobby I guess lol
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Now that I'm playing around with it, it makes perfect sense that its the power button. Thanks guys
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Thats exactly what was wrong with mine. I just got it exchanged
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I had this issue before. Battery was completely dead. I just charge for a while and it was fine. Same also happened to a friends and she let hers charge and it was fine.
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Thats exactly what was wrong with mine. I just got it exchanged
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I'm guessing that it's a fairly common thing
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I cannot turn on my phone at all, the Samsung logo comes up, screen blacks out and the phone just vibrates once every couple of seconds. If I'm lucky the phone will sometimes boot up but freezes and turns back off. It's nearly impossible for me to boot into recovery and do anything as the phone shuts off seconds later. Anyone have any advice, I've looked all over and only found one other person with this problem and no fix
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yea im having the same problem with my phone and its for sure not the battery or the power button.
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FloggingChamp said:
yea im having the same problem with my phone and its for sure not the battery or the power button.
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i also tried running unbrick on it and that didnt do it either
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Read this thread. This person had similar symptoms. Ended up being a faulty power button. He sent it in to mobiletechvideos.com and they fixed it!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29016555
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yeah, that thread had helpful info. i tried the one guy's suggestion of gently working a tiny flat-head screwdriver around the power button, and it fixed my issue.
hopefully it won't come back too often, but at least i know what it is (faulty power button) and can send it in for repairs if need be. at this point, i'm just relieved i have another chance to backup my data!
well, the issue came back, and working a screw driver around the button isn't solving the problem. it'll go away for a very short period of time, and then come back.
more recently, i've started losing settings for open apps when the phone reboots randomly. freaking awesome. just lost my handcent settings, and can't figure out where the config file/db is so i can restore it from a backup. looks like i'll have to spend another hour or more fully customizing the blasted thing again.
Its gotta be a bad motherboard I had same issue and Samsung warranty it out and fixed it for free or you can find em on eBay i just bought a used one for 90 and works perfect
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Power button could be stuck again. I fixed mine my flicking it with my finger every second and finally my phone would start up again. Guess screw driver would have been easier, haha. Would work for a month then the same issue would start again. Do you happen to use a D30 case?
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I had the same problem because I used the d30 case haha
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Hi,
I just bought a Pebble Blue S3 from craigslist without checking it out properly. (I know, shame on me). The phone is in physically mint condition, the water damage tab is not red and there are no signs of dropping.
The phone's screen does NOT turn on. When I hold the power button to have it load up normally, I can hear the T-mobile jingle and then a constant blue indicator would stay on the top left corner.
I have tried flashing it back to stock through download mode (Power, volume down, and home --> volume up mode) and it seems to make no difference to the screen's issue.
Flashing it back to stock might have made it worse because I can't even access the phone's internal memory through USB anymore.
Any help towards fixing my screen would be great!
Thanks.
So out of curiosity how much did you pay for a phone that you did not check to see if it turned on?
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I paid $250 for it, came with original box and accessories. I thought it was too good to be true, and it seems that way. At worse I can probably break even and sell it as-is.
Is the battery low?
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What does windows report it as in device manager?
If you can get to download mode it may not be hard bricked.
You could flash twrp recovery with idin, then boot recovery and try flashing something from thrre.
Also twrp has a builtin file manager so you can try to see if you can find sny problems that way. (Look for logfiles)
Are you sure its an SGH-T999?
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DocHoliday77 said:
What does windows report it as in device manager?
If you can get to download mode it may not be hard bricked.
You could flash twrp recovery with idin, then boot recovery and try flashing something from thrre.
Also twrp has a builtin file manager so you can try to see if you can find sny problems that way. (Look for logfiles)
Are you sure its an SGH-T999?
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I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark.
Positive it is a SGH-T999, before I flashed the stock PDA in ODIN, Windows Device manager would list that. How do I flash TWRP? Do I need the screen to do it?
Oh the battery is fully charged.
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I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark.
Positive it is a SGH-T999, before I flashed the stock PDA in ODIN, Windows Device manager would list that. How do I flash TWRP? Do I need the screen to do it?
Oh the battery is fully charged.
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Here is the thread for TWRP. But you get to download mode by starting with the device completely powered off, then pressing the volume down, home and power button at the same time until it powers on. I dont understand what you meant by "I was able to access download mode by clicking around in the dark"
Button mashing I guess?
And just fyi, to boot recovery from power off
Hold volume up, home and power. When you see blue text flash on top of the screen release.
Also, flashing recovery in Odin will trip the flash counter. Prob doesn't matter considering the situation, but just so you know.
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If you can get the phone in download mode, odin back to stock. Then boot into recovery using power +home + vol up and do a factory reset. This step is important. I borked my phone with a bad jb install and using odin on its own doesnt completely reset the phone. Using the factory reset fixed this in my situation
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Send it to Samsung and cross your fingers?
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By saying I'm able to access recovery mode, I got in by basically doing the sequence of buttons, without seeing any display on the screen. I know it is in download mode because it reads on ODIN.
No matter what I click or what mode it is in, the screen is still completely off. Sorry for the confusion.
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By saying I'm able to access recovery mode, I got in by basically doing the sequence of buttons, without seeing any display on the screen. No matter what I click or what mode it is in, the screen is still completely off. Sorry for the confusion.
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Well that's a different story lol. Seems like a hardware fault. If you feel comfortable, take it apart and check all connections. And use a very bright light to look for any cracks on the LCD (not the digitizer) but the underlying LCD.
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elesbb said:
Well that's a different story lol. Seems like a hardware fault. If you feel comfortable, take it apart and check all connections. And use a very bright light to look for any cracks on the LCD (not the digitizer) but the underlying LCD.
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Ugh, I guess it might come down to that. If anyone else have any more tips before I go a head and check the connections, please do tell!
Or you can see if Samsung can repair it under warranty
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Is there no way you can contact the seller? Woulda been the first thing I did!
You may not resolve anything but you could at least try to find out what they did to break it in the first place...then have some fun and blow off some steam till they hang up on you!
Just a thought.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Is there no way you can contact the seller? Woulda been the first thing I did!
You may not resolve anything but you could at least try to find out what they did to break it in the first place...then have some fun and blow off some steam till they hang up on you!
Just a thought.
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That was the first thing I tried. Seller is dodging my calls / not replying to my texts -.-.. Shady guy.
Just contact samsung and send it for repair. Still uder warranty.
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Just contact samsung and send it for repair. Still uder warranty.
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I tried that with my s2. Warranty only applies to original buyer :\
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elesbb said:
I tried that with my s2. Warranty only applies to original buyer :\
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I've had Samsung service my SGS1 that I bought off Kijiji while it was still within its one-year warranty. It doesn't just apply to the original owner, just call them and tell them it was a gift, they'll ask for the phone's IMEI, and then they'll be able to tell if it is still within its warranty period.
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I've had Samsung service my SGS1 that I bought off Kijiji while it was still within its one-year warranty. It doesn't just apply to the original owner, just call them and tell them it was a gift, they'll ask for the phone's IMEI, and then they'll be able to tell if it is still within its warranty period.
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Thanks for the info, I'll give it a shot!
Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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Android_Monsters said:
Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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Hey guys. So while I was at the airport waiting to catch my flight, I was texting a friend
However, in the middle of texting my phone froze
So I thought "no big deal, ill just restart my phone like usual"
Little did I know that when I would try to restart my phomw it wouldn't turn on
The blue LED stays on and the screen stays black.
I've tried battrry pulls and tried charging it but to no avail
Any insight and or help would be greatly appreciated
Whether or not your story is legit, sounds like you bricked your phone. So if you tried flashing something and didn't do it correctly that's probably the reason.
Either way, if you have warranty Sprint will replace it.
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Whether or not your story is legit, sounds like you bricked your phone. So if you tried flashing something and didn't do it correctly that's probably the reason.
Either way, if you have warranty Sprint will replace it.
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That's a bold statement to make...
How bout it's an EMMC failure and not OP's fault.
OP, your phone suffered an EMMC failure. It happens from time to time. it's toast...
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That's a bold statement to make...
How bout it's an EMMC failure and not OP's fault.
OP, your phone suffered an EMMC failure. It happens from time to time. it's toast...
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Really? Darn.. So does that mean I'm SOL?
There may be a way to fix it. MAY...
J-Tag may be the only way, but I believe you will lose most of your storage space because it has to close off the bad area off the EMMC and rewrite the good areas. Google 'mobiletechvideos'. If anyone can possibly save it, it is those guys. If not, it is time for a new phone.
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