This is a bit of a long story but I need advice and I'm not sure where else to go. I have the phone rooted but the only thing I've done is install KT747.
I'm not sure if it's related but I'll open with that about 6 months ago I dropped it in the bathtub (dumb as hell I know), took it to the sprint store and BSed them about what happened. They opened it up, saw the water indicator/water, called me on my BS, dried it off and cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol and my phone came back.
Fast forward to Tuesday, at work with my phone plugged into my laptop it cut off and would simply not come back on. The samsung logo would come up and then the KT747 "Kernel Domination" screen for a moment but then it would cut off. The phone would be on for maybe 3 seconds total. Even if I tried to boot into recovery or even download mode the same thing would occur (I think one time I got it to show the flash count and all that jazz in download mode). As the water indicator will still show water damage and you can clearly tell I've rooted it I was worried I might be screwed out of a phone, but I thought I was screwed the last time I went to sprint so I left to go do that, half way between work and the sprint store my phone cut back on in my pocket. Over the next day and a half it had similar problems but eventually came back (quicker than the first time). And now it's been running well for 3 days.
I've been doing some research on google and I've seen something about a motherboard defect that can cause sudden death, but I think this might be the international S3. It's really hard to tell what's what. Also I saw someone say it could be a battery issue so I ordered a new one but I'm still concerned this might not be the issue.
It's working fine now but I'm in constant fear my phone will just die any moment now.
Fr33dan said:
This is a bit of a long story but I need advice and I'm not sure where else to go. I have the phone rooted but the only thing I've done is install KT747.
I'm not sure if it's related but I'll open with that about 6 months ago I dropped it in the bathtub (dumb as hell I know), took it to the sprint store and BSed them about what happened. They opened it up, saw the water indicator/water, called me on my BS, dried it off and cleaned the contacts with rubbing alcohol and my phone came back.
Fast forward to Tuesday, at work with my phone plugged into my laptop it cut off and would simply not come back on. The samsung logo would come up and then the KT747 "Kernel Domination" screen for a moment but then it would cut off. The phone would be on for maybe 3 seconds total. Even if I tried to boot into recovery or even download mode the same thing would occur (I think one time I got it to show the flash count and all that jazz in download mode). As the water indicator will still show water damage and you can clearly tell I've rooted it I was worried I might be screwed out of a phone, but I thought I was screwed the last time I went to sprint so I left to go do that, half way between work and the sprint store my phone cut back on in my pocket. Over the next day and a half it had similar problems but eventually came back (quicker than the first time). And now it's been running well for 3 days.
I've been doing some research on google and I've seen something about a motherboard defect that can cause sudden death, but I think this might be the international S3. It's really hard to tell what's what. Also I saw someone say it could be a battery issue so I ordered a new one but I'm still concerned this might not be the issue.
It's working fine now but I'm in constant fear my phone will just die any moment now.
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If it was working fine before you dropped it in the water, then that's probably the cause. I doubt it's sudden death syndrome if there were no signs of shutting on and off before you dropped it in the water.
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If it was working fine before you dropped it in the water, then that's probably the cause. I doubt it's sudden death syndrome if there were no signs of shutting on and off before you dropped it in the water.
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But would I expect to see problems from water damage so long after the contact with water? I figured if there were going to be problems from the water it would have happened much quicker than this. Like I said the water damage was MONTHS ago.
Sounds like SDS power button failure. Very common on S3.
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Short Version: Phone worked, Sat for a month, doesnt get past cyanogen screen goes into protect mode.
Okay i bought an evo that had the screen replaced on it. The guy obviously didnt know what he was doing. So I dropped it one day and the digizer ripped off.( the flex cable ripped, The digitizer wasnt stuck down) So a month later, i finally got around to buying a brand new housing for the entire thing. I took the mobo out and put it in the new housing. It worked for about 5 minutes then gets stuck in a boot loop. I had it happen once, before i got the new housing, It took me 5 minutes to get it to work again. The phone would shut off randomly sometimes.
It worked fine before the screen broke off no major problems would shut itself off every 2 or 3 days. The board has sat in a bag on my table for a month and now it wont work.
Now i cant even get the phone to stay on at all. The cyanogen screen shows up it loads and then shuts right off (i have recovery) I have tried different kernels,roms, and radios. The phone goes into protect mode now. Can I hit with a heat gun and reflow the cpu like a ps3 or xbox? Is there anyway i can remove all hardware failure protection?
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Short Version: Phone worked, Sat for a month, doesnt get past cyanogen screen goes into protect mode.
Okay i bought an evo that had the screen replaced on it. The guy obviously didnt know what he was doing. So I dropped it one day and the digizer ripped off.( the flex cable ripped, The digitizer wasnt stuck down) So a month later, i finally got around to buying a brand new housing for the entire thing. I took the mobo out and put it in the new housing. It worked for about 5 minutes then gets stuck in a boot loop. I had it happen once, before i got the new housing, It took me 5 minutes to get it to work again. The phone would shut off randomly sometimes.
It worked fine before the screen broke off no major problems would shut itself off every 2 or 3 days. The board has sat in a bag on my table for a month and now it wont work.
Now i cant even get the phone to stay on at all. The cyanogen screen shows up it loads and then shuts right off (i have recovery) I have tried different kernels,roms, and radios. The phone goes into protect mode now. Can I hit with a heat gun and reflow the cpu like a ps3 or xbox? Is there anyway i can remove all hardware failure protection?
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You have any insurance? Depending on how your morals are you could try to make a warranty claim on it (although after todays announcement I might feel bad considering theyre trying to help us out). Otherwise I would try flashing an RUU and if that doesnt work take whatever means necessary, although Im not sure why your mobo would be damaged after a month, have you tried cleaning it and blowing on it to get all the dust out?
My recommendation is to make sure you stretch first, then when you do throw the phone through the wall, that you make sure it's a wall that's going to be easy to repair.
Reading your post it looks like you bought a phone that was practically guaranteed to have problems.
You bought the phone equivalent of a lemon, so expect the same amount of effort into keeping this thing alive as if you were to buy a car lemon.
short of running an ruu or smashing it and saying you 20lb sledge fell from 20 feet and landed on it lol
I've never looked into something that says "protect mode" for an EVO.
However, most electronic can do this if the thing is going to over-volt. If you think about car amplifiers, they do the same thing and go into protection mode which means that capacitor or something much more is bad.
I agree with the other guy and that you threw yourself into a bad deal from the start so it's as if you're going to be fixing something that's already inherited potential issues.
Have you considered that the replacement screen may be the culprit? Aside from the potential drop damage that could have broken something on the logic board, the another possibility is that the hardware you just installed could be defective and causing the EVO to do this protect mode.
In any event, the best solution would now be to work with a company to get a diagnosis of the problem. If you get a diagnosis only, you can buy your own parts and do it yourself if you're like a McGyver type-a-guy.
Find a credible cell phone repair shop and just get an diagnosis first.
Okay so I will let you know the history of my phone before i start.
No water or falling dmg at all, I Have taken care of this thing like it was my baby.
I rooted the phone and put starburst ROM on my phone it ran good for a little while
but then decided to go to blazer rom. That rom was great and everything and ran amazing for months then 2 days ago I woke up to my phone with a purple tinted screen, frozen and pretty warm. So i took the battery out and it seemed to restart okay. (I charge it every night so it was charging when this happen)
The rest of the day I started having issues like battery drain, Screen not turning on unless i took battery out, heat, account Unsyncing, calls auto going to speaker, Message LED light not turning off, and more!
So I decided to go to Calkulin's E4GT to see if that would fix my issue. Its amazing rom and things seem to be working okay. But still having a issue with my phone heating up and the screen not turning on also the message red LED light would not go away....
I called sprint and was told to take it to a repair shop or i could get it replaced for $100 (which i am not doing) Will the repair shop be able to fix this? Do i need to put official back on my phone before i take it in? anything would help at this point (sorry ahead of time for spelling and size of this post)
enp82003 said:
Okay so I will let you know the history of my phone before i start.
No water or falling dmg at all, I Have taken care of this thing like it was my baby.
I rooted the phone and put starburst ROM on my phone it ran go for a little while
but then decided to go to blazer rom. That rom was great and everything and ran amazing for months then one day I woke up to my phone with a purple screen, frozen and pretty warm. So i took the battery out and it seemed to restart okay
The rest of the day I started having issues like battery drain, Screen not turning on unless i took battery out, heat, account Unsyncing, calls auto going to speaker, Message LED light not turning off, and more!
So I decided to go to Calkulin's E4GT. Its amazing rom and things seem to be working okay. But still having a issue with my phone heating up and the screen not turning on also the message red LED light would not go away....
I called sprint and was told to take it to a repair shop or i could get it replaced for $100 (which i am not doing) Will the repair shop be able to fix this? Do i need to put official back on my phone before i take it in? anything would help at this point (sorry ahead of hand for spelling and size of this post)
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I'd say use odin to bring it back to stock unrooted. If you are still having problems with it, then it's probably a hardware issue and will likely persist. However, my experience with people at sprint who are smart and actually know what they are doing either don't mind if you have it rooted or have rooted phones themselves. They have a machine that they plug it into and if it is rooted, it won't damage your phone, but it will give a whole lot of weird errors. Good luck!
Super Fast reply! thank you! I am so sad because Calkulin's E4GT is such an amazing ROM! I hate to lose it. Would they be able to replace the motherboard at the repair shop? because it seems like the device is overheating alot. No processing are running but mainly when its plugged in.
Definitely just take it in and see what they say .. if they find a problem Sprint repair center will fix/ replace it for you.
Well I took it to the sprint repair center today and the guy told me that it's due to my my hot spot service that i am suppose to be paying for.
I told him i don't even use that feature it just came with the ROM but he said he was sure this is what was causing the issue.
He said he could do a hard reset on my phone but other then that i am out of luck
That sounds like bull. Go back to completely stock and see if the problem persists. Of it does, take it back to Sprint, but try a different store.
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That sounds like bull. Go back to completely stock and see if the problem persists. Of it does, take it back to Sprint, but try a different store.
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Yeah, I gotta agree, if that was in fact the problem here, I doubt your phone would be the only one doing this stuff. Shoot, I actually use hot spot app and mine has never acted like that.
Yeah think the company told him to blame stuff on that because they are not getting my $30 a month for the hot spot feature. So far phone hasn't really been acting up just the red LED been staying on 24/7 but i went in to setting and disabled it.
Sorry for double posting just wanted to give you guys a update
Saturday my phone did the thing where the screen would not turn on.
I drove right to my sprint repair shop and sat down with a over weight female tech.
This was our convo
me: "Hi, My phone's screen is not turning on and the phone has been acting really weird when the screen is on.The last tech said
this was because it was rooted and the wifi hot spot THAT I DON'T USE made the battery over heat but the heat is clearly
coming from the top right as you can feel"
tech: "WEELLLL did you know i could refuse to look at the phone if its rooted according to our policy?"
me: "Well what time do you close, because I will unroot it and put stock back on it and bring it back within the hour"
tech: "please sign these papers to get a replacement......"
I left feeling really annoyed. It's nice having empty threats throw at you by ass hole techs who think they are the ****.
I do not want anything for nothing i pay for my service and use root for titanium backup. Blah well glad to get my replacement either way.
So, for the past month and a half, I've been having some serious overheating issues with my E4GT, whether I have it rooted and a custom ROM flashed, or running stock. It has now gotten to the point where the phone smells..funky, near the camera on the back. Now, Sprint labels the battery as the culprit...twice now, they just give me a new battery saying the old was swollen, and that it is what was causing it to overheat. Completely ignoring that I state it smells like fried parts. Now, the batteries were all normal in appearance, mind you, not a bit swollen. No water damage either. It gets almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. ..Yet, battery life actually isn't terrible, go figure. This overheating happens whether I am using the crap out of my phone, or just leaving it sit idle.
Any ideas what to do from here? It makes it almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable, especially if it happens when I make a call. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. I've made a habit of unplugging it when it says it's at a 100% charge, too.
I'm sick of Sprint shoving me aside every time I go there, which is three times now. So, if there are any ideas as to how I can get them to just replace the damn thing without spending 100 through insurance..lay it on me. I've searched the forums for a solution to this particular issue, no avail. Hell, if it takes purposely bricking for them to pay attention, then I'll do it, but that's on the back burner. Far far back.
I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing.
Apologies for the novel, guys and gals.
**...somehow the title ended up being just one word. Not sure how it got deleted. I blame cats. "Major overheating issue, getting the good ol' Sprint run-around.." <--should have been that.
Go to a different sprint store....they're being dicks, never had that issue at any sprint store in my area. You have a fault phone and it needs to be replaced.
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I have been to two, but perhaps third one's the charm?
maruutah said:
So, for the past month and a half, I've been having some serious overheating issues with my E4GT, whether I have it rooted and a custom ROM flashed, or running stock. It has now gotten to the point where the phone smells..funky, near the camera on the back. Now, Sprint labels the battery as the culprit...twice now, they just give me a new battery saying the old was swollen, and that it is what was causing it to overheat. Completely ignoring that I state it smells like fried parts. Now, the batteries were all normal in appearance, mind you, not a bit swollen. No water damage either. It gets almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. ..Yet, battery life actually isn't terrible, go figure. This overheating happens whether I am using the crap out of my phone, or just leaving it sit idle.
Any ideas what to do from here? It makes it almost too hot to touch the screen at times, not dangerously, but uncomfortable, especially if it happens when I make a call. I only use the USB cable and wall adapter it came with, as well. I've made a habit of unplugging it when it says it's at a 100% charge, too.
I'm sick of Sprint shoving me aside every time I go there, which is three times now. So, if there are any ideas as to how I can get them to just replace the damn thing without spending 100 through insurance..lay it on me. I've searched the forums for a solution to this particular issue, no avail. Hell, if it takes purposely bricking for them to pay attention, then I'll do it, but that's on the back burner. Far far back.
Apologies for the novel, guys and gals.
**...somehow the title ended up being just one word. Not sure how it got deleted. I blame cats. "Major overheating issue, getting the good ol' Sprint run-around.." <--should have been that.
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I had the same problem and so did my woman. Do yourself a favor and download Calkulins battery saver E4GT ROM. I don't know how but it keeps the phone cooler. Seriously. Haven't had any over heating issues since. EL29 stock kernel always causes mine to heat up. Hope this helps
I've used that as well, but the thing still smells pretty bad whenever I use..well..anything. :/ I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing. I should add that to the initial post...
maruutah said:
I've used that as well, but the thing still smells pretty bad whenever I use..well..anything. :/ I have tried all sorts of things to keep it running smoothly, I guess my main question is how to get Sprint to just replace the dang thing. I should add that to the initial post...
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Do you have insurance? You could always just brick it to the point where all ya get is the blue led of death and bring it in and tell them the thing just suddenly went off on ya and when you tried to turn it on this is what happened.
Do NOT try to damage it using water because they have these stickers inside the phone and on the battery that change colors when they come in contact with water so sprint will know, and laugh in your face.
my phone also gets very hot like in 120 range
You could send it to Samsung under warranty, and when u go to sprint make sure its a corporate service center and not a 3rd party "authorized service center". When you go in don't mention overheating at first start off with "my phone smells funny, like burning plastic and when I pick it up I notice the screen is very warm/hot to the touch and sometimes has issues with the touch responsiveness" this should get their attention away from the battery and more towards the internal issues, more than likely its the SOC that is overheating if it's hottest near the camera area of the phone
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I've been rooting phones for quite a while now and have never faced a problem I couldn't fix. It seems I'm not as lucky this time...
I rooted my Epic 4G Touch the night I got it, and recently flashed the CM9 alpha 3 rom successfully. Since the beginning the phone has always gotten very hot when using it, but a few days ago, I was using it like normal, texting, when it froze up. I gave it a few minutes to refresh or reboot like it usually does, but it didn't. I ended up pulling the battery. When I turned it back on, it began to boot up, got to the boot animation, and then froze again... I pulled the battery and tried once more. This time, it didn't turn on at all. Since then I've tried multiple batteries, a usb jig, and all I've gotten is the blue led to turn and stay on. I've tried booting up to download mode, still to no avail.
Today, I took it to the Sprint store and told them what had happened. They took a closer look and determined it was water damage due to one of the indicators...? I haven't ever dropped my phone in water nor somehow gotten water on it. I have brought it in the bathroom to play music when I take a shower, if the steam could do anything. I don't have a warranty anymore and they want $200 dollars for a new one...
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
If they refuse to try to repair it, then you'll just have to shell out for a new one. The blue light brick is unrepairable right now...not even JTag or Sprint stores can fix it.
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Steam=water/phone=brick
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I dropped myself nexus in water and sprint bought it back jaja and both my previous et4gs
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Common ways for liquid damage is putting it in the shower, the steam creeps in through the charging port and will begin to wreak havok on the device. Other ways, I've encountered are putting it in a cup holder, and also keeping the phone on you during physical activity. The sweat and moisture from your body can cause liquid damage.
Damn, I've been bringing my phone in the bathroom with me while showering to listen to some Pandora for months. Gonna have to rethink that now.....
I dropped my phone in water about a month ago. I dried it out in rice overnight and now I am having issues. People say they have trouble hearing me on a phone conversation. My charging port doesnt work half the time. Also my screen sometimes will not respond to my touch and I have to remove battery to get the screen to work.
I'm wondering if these problems could be related to the ROM I'm using or from the water damage. Any help and suggestions can save me some headaches. I feel like my only option is buying a new phone.
if your phone started messing up after you dropped in water it may be a hardware problem or trying flashing it with odin. if it started after you installed the rom then just revert back to your previous rom.
Mailman74 said:
I dropped my phone in water about a month ago. I dried it out in rice overnight and now I am having issues. People say they have trouble hearing me on a phone conversation. My charging port doesnt work half the time. Also my screen sometimes will not respond to my touch and I have to remove battery to get the screen to work.
I'm wondering if these problems could be related to the ROM I'm using or from the water damage. Any help and suggestions can save me some headaches. I feel like my only option is buying a new phone.
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I think this is a good excuse for you to pick up a new galaxy s 3! lol if you have the money for it.
Those issues sound like they are from water damage. i used to have a og evo 4g and i used to play music in the shower, well eventually i noticed that the boot up time for the phone took twice as long. i took it to sprint repair and they opened it and told me it had water damage. Steam had gotten inside and messed it up making it really slow.
Im pretty sure its water damage for your phone. see if you can open it and check the water damage indicator strip?? your phone has one on the battery, most phones also have one inside the phone but im not 100% sure on this one.
Mailman74 said:
I dropped my phone in water about a month ago. I dried it out in rice overnight and now I am having issues. People say they have trouble hearing me on a phone conversation. My charging port doesnt work half the time. Also my screen sometimes will not respond to my touch and I have to remove battery to get the screen to work.
I'm wondering if these problems could be related to the ROM I'm using or from the water damage. Any help and suggestions can save me some headaches. I feel like my only option is buying a new phone.
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What ROM are you using? Some of the issues you are describing applies to older versions of cm9 and AOKP.
The charging port not working... Is that when the phone is on or off? Once again, it could be ROM related.