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I have read the other posts regarding the rebooting issues of the Sprint Galaxy S3 variant, but I seem to have a touch more difficult problem. My phone constantly resets and seems to be getting worse. It now will reset in the middle of recovery. I was able to wipe the cache and dalvik and then it started resetting even more frequently in recovery and made reloading the rom impossible. It even resets in the download screen. So it makes it impossible to use Odin and other applications. If anyone has any ideas let me know. I have a few possible options that I am pondering. The following is what led up to this if you need some background:
A week ago, I noticed that my battery suddenly was not charging when wifi was on. I turned it off thinking it was some glitch and reset the phone and plugged it in to charge. It said it was at 100 % some hours later. then I turned it back on again and within a couple minutes, it said it was at 22%. So I hard reset and then plugged it into the wall, but it was still not charging. I had go somewhere,so I plugged it into the car charger and enabled fast charge. I turned on my data and all the sudden it rebooted, lost my wifi password, but when it came back on, it was charging properly. So I thought it was just some odd glitch. Charged properly for days.
Then I noticed the phone starting to randomly reset maybe once very other day when texting. I was actually going to put on a new rom tomorrow thinking maybe my old one had become corrupt. Then it suddenly increased drastically tonight to where it was starting to reset constantly. I thought maybe the button was stuck, and pulled off my otter case to make sure it wasnt being pressed down oddly, but it continued. Then I went into recovery and was able to wipe the cache and dalvik before it got really bad and now it won't even let me stay in recovery for any length of time. I almost got a rom loaded when it reset and its been resetting faster than ever. Becoming unresponsive to button presses as well. Even when I could get into the recovery, it would keep showing "swipe screen to open," as the power button was apparently continuing to activate or the phone was trying to reset itself. And yes, I have tried a battery pull several times and then tried to get into recovery, only to be booted out right as I see the recovery screen if I get there.
So that is my problem. I can't flash odin or anything else as the phone just keeps resetting. Part of me thinks to get a new battery and try to see if that doesn't solve my issue, as maybe the battery is causing the phone to reset? But part me is also thinking maybe the power button has gone sticky suddenly? It won't charge it seems as the red light will not come on and it keeps resetting before the battery charging icon can even come up. Any help or advice would be appreciated. I am leaning towards the battery going bad suddenly and shorting out the phone. I now have the battery, which last I saw was at 48% (It was charging when this happened), out of the phone and am waiting till morning to hopefully pick up a new battery. But I would appreciate any insights into this issue.
Thank you very much
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I'm having the same issue described above with the S3 constantly rebooting. I can get into download mode but it restarts a few seconds into the flash. I have tried a different battery but that did not solve the problem - I am also thinking it's a power button issue... any suggestions?
mawamd said:
I'm having the same issue described above with the S3 constantly rebooting. I can get into download mode but it restarts a few seconds into the flash. I have tried a different battery but that did not solve the problem - I am also thinking it's a power button issue... any suggestions?
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I just had my phone replaced for same reason ( Thank god for insurance) Download mode would last about 5 seconds, Recovery would do the same. I managed to get a stock restore with flash counter reset to boot as i was walking into the Sprint store for the techs to look at this lol.. Same exact thing happened on my S2. Power button is done. If you have INS call and get it replaced (Took me about a week for new phone)
I read some post on possibly using Samsung Kies to flash a new ROM, but that was for the international version. I would be curious if anyone has ever tried this or if its possible to replace the power button with a part replacement? I have ordered an S4 but this time I will make sure to use the home and left touch pad more often to unlock the phone and save wear on the power button. I wold still be interested f anyone has found a fix for this.
mawamd said:
I'm having the same issue described above with the S3 constantly rebooting. I can get into download mode but it restarts a few seconds into the flash. I have tried a different battery but that did not solve the problem - I am also thinking it's a power button issue... any suggestions?
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So after looking around, I am pretty convinced this the power button,as people describe on this question. If you don't have insurance, I see there are selling replacements or you can pay someone to replace and fix the power button fairly affordably on ebay. I might go the second route, as I want it fine right and the man had a 100 percent rating positive, and I dont really know what I am doing lol. Thanks everyone for your answers.
Hello,
So I bought a G3 the day before yesterday and yesterday was my first day with it, and for that first day my phone had shutdown twice on its own. The first time was when my phone was lying on the bed and doing nothing, it had around 50% battery and was not hot or anything.
The second time was this night i don't know when, i have put my G3 on the charger and went to sleep i woke up and it had shutdown.
I didn't made factory reset when i got i from the box which i will when i come home from work and hopefully this will fix it, but does anyone have a problem like that? If is something serious i will be disappointed to return the phone.
p.s. My previous phone was galaxy s2 and had this king of problem only with custom roms and kernels, but i have not put anything on the G3 yet, except activating the developers options and had switched it to ART and the first time the phone had shutdown i thought that the art was the issue and switched it back to dalvik, the second time though was on dalvik.
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Hello,
So I bought a G3 the day before yesterday and yesterday was my first day with it, and for that first day my phone had shutdown twice on its own. The first time was when my phone was lying on the bed and doing nothing, it had around 50% battery and was not hot or anything.
The second time was this night i don't know when, i have put my G3 on the charger and went to sleep i woke up and it had shutdown.
I didn't made factory reset when i got i from the box which i will when i come home from work and hopefully this will fix it, but does anyone have a problem like that? If is something serious i will be disappointed to return the phone.
p.s. My previous phone was galaxy s2 and had this king of problem only with custom roms and kernels, but i have not put anything on the G3 yet, except activating the developers options and had switched it to ART and the first time the phone had shutdown i thought that the art was the issue and switched it back to dalvik, the second time though was on dalvik.
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I have the exact same problem. The past few days when I go to bed and wake up in the morning, the phone has shut itself off. I haven't rooted or installed any custom roms.
I would advise you both to take a factory reset, only install apps you need for a few days and see if the problem persists, if it doesn't install your apps back one by one as it may well be a particular app causing the reboots.
If you still get reboots after the reset and with no apps installed then you may have to take the phone back to swap it.
Lennyuk said:
I would advise you both to take a factory reset, only install apps you need for a few days and see if the problem persists, if it doesn't install your apps back one by one as it may well be a particular app causing the reboots.
If you still get reboots after the reset and with no apps installed then you may have to take the phone back to swap it.
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Yes as I said in the first post the factory format and hard reset will be the first thing that will be done as soon I am at home. About the apps i have pretty much basic apps (facebook, messenger, soundcloud, etc) all from the market except smashhit of which i have the apk and installed from the internal memory.
Except those apps I have 2 mp3s and some wallpapers and nothing else, becouse when i got my phone it was late on the evening and i had no time to do anything else. So the phone is pretty much out off the box and I was verry frustrated when the secound shutdown happened, becouse i tought the first was from the ART runtime.
Anyway today I will have more time to spend on the phone and we will see what will happend.
p.s. The phone does not reboots, just shuts off.
Dredd90 said:
Yes as I said in the first post the factory format and hard reset will be the first thing that will be done as soon I am at home. About the apps i have pretty much basic apps (facebook, messenger, soundcloud, etc) all from the market except smashhit of which i have the apk and installed from the internal memory.
Except those apps I have 2 mp3s and some wallpapers and nothing else, becouse when i got my phone it was late on the evening and i had no time to do anything else. So the phone is pretty much out off the box and I was verry frustrated when the secound shutdown happened, becouse i tought the first was from the ART runtime.
Anyway today I will have more time to spend on the phone and we will see what will happend.
p.s. The phone does not reboots, just shuts off.
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Is it definitely off or is the phone just stuck on a black screen? It is quite common on some devices when something is not quite right for the kernel to be unable to wake the phone up, the phone is still technically on but stuck in deep sleep.
does holding the power button for 2 seconds turn it on? or do you have to hold it for say 7-8 seconds?
Lennyuk said:
Is it definitely off or is the phone just stuck on a black screen? It is quite common on some devices when something is not quite right for the kernel to be unable to wake the phone up, the phone is still technically on but stuck in deep sleep.
does holding the power button for 2 seconds turn it on? or do you have to hold it for say 7-8 seconds?
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It is definetly shut down around 2 seconds(the normal time to hold the power button to turn on) it turns on and work perfectly and does not show anything suspicious in its behavior, it's super fast, not laggy and etc, may be a little high on ram consumptions but with this havy skin i think it is normal or could not be normal idk, the ram consumptions go from about 1,2GB the lowest i have seen to up to 2,3 the highes i have seen.
Anyway about the shut off think yes defenetly 100% sure it is off, it happend again a while ago and i thoght the same thing may be it si deep asleep even i had chacked the weather 10 min ago and call myself from a friends phone and the operator said that the phone is off or i am somewhere without network covarage.
i got same problem. it turn off it selft and black screen even battery still 70%. rmust remove the battery to restart again, ealy bad. huft
mandrive said:
i got same problem. it turn off it selft and black screen even battery still 70%. rmust remove the battery to restart again, ealy bad. huft
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If you have to remove the battery to get it to restart then its not actually shut off, its just stuck in deep sleep! which is usually caused by a bad app.
Yes if you have to remove the battery the problem is different, i just have to push the power button and it boots right away after it have shuted off by its self........
i didnt have this issue with my 855. but i did a factory reset after i got the phone just for the hell of it
So it's reset time i finally have some time to the some staff on the phone so hopefully everything will be fine. I will post if this fix or not the problem to inform the other people in this thread.
Dredd90 said:
So it's reset time i finally have some time to the some staff on the phone so hopefully everything will be fine. I will post if this fix or not the problem to inform the other people in this thread.
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did you have any luck with the problem? I have the same issue, performed a factory reset and restored, hopefully it will fix too..
Hi all!
I have and have had the same problem and think I've pinpointed the problem to Google Search but can't 100% confirm it yet. I didn't do a factory reset when I got the phone and it shutdown during the night. I did a factory reset, made sure it got enough time to update everything properly. Problem was gone and worked fine. HOWEVER, the phone kept asking me which home screen I prefer at random times when I hit the home button. With random I mean like 4+ times per day. I searched the net and found a threat saying that a guy with a G2 solved the problem by removing Google Search updates. So I decided to do just that and get the factory version back and the questions disappeared but guess what, the phone shut down the following night.
Any takers or might this just be random? Note that it was working fine for three days with the updated Google Search and shutdown the first night after the downgrade.
So I did hard reset and so far so good the phone had not shutted down itself, and I updated everything which need to be updated (mentioning this for the guy with the upper post). So far so good I will keep you in touch if something goes bad...
Dredd90 said:
So I did hard reset and so far so good the phone had not shutted down itself, and I updated everything which need to be updated (mentioning this for the guy with the upper post). So far so good I will keep you in touch if something goes bad...
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Let me know if you also encounter the problem with the home screen questions! :good:
Good luck!
mandrive said:
i got same problem. it turn off it selft and black screen even battery still 70%. rmust remove the battery to restart again, ealy bad. huft
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Had you enabled ART instead of Dalvik ?
turt said:
Had you enabled ART instead of Dalvik ?
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whether the use of ART
The problem will be resolved?
I suggest take it to your dealer and get it replaced asap. I've seen lots of returned phones(my job at XXXXXXX company ) with the same issue, and as long as the defect is reproducible the dealer will give you a new phone. If it's outa replacement period then they'll probably repair it.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand shut down again but this time it took quite a bit time longer to shut off by its self so i tought the problem was fixed, but it's not, so i am going to the store which i buy it from to replace the device.....
Does this also happen with the korean models?
Had a problem with phone where talkback enabled itself in pocket. I forced quit it and somehow messed up voice feedback in s-voice. I was on phone with samsung tech for 2 hours trying to figure out what happened. Anyway we did a full backup apps, contacts numbers everything to pc, usingg program kies that samsung provides. After got into recovery wiped the device and reset it. Tech told me never to factory reset from phone only this way. After i did it phone was on 85 per cent charge and ive been using it alot today, now it has 36 per cent left after 26 hours. I had to recharge after 10 hours of use before. I dont know if this just was a fluke, but im definitely getting better battery life now.
hmm, I might have to try that, Im not getting any better battery life it seems, than I did on my 1.5 year old rooted GS4, pretty disappointing so far, so yea i might try a factory reset
Make sure you download the program from www.samsung.com/us/ kies
Once you run it back up everything. Then go into recovery and do the reset from there. Good luck.
Then of course run kies again and restore.
abacus0101 said:
Had a problem with phone where talkback enabled itself in pocket. I forced quit it and somehow messed up voice feedback in s-voice. I was on phone with samsung tech for 2 hours trying to figure out what happened. Anyway we did a full backup apps, contacts numbers everything to pc, usingg program kies that samsung provides. After got into recovery wiped the device and reset it. Tech told me never to factory reset from phone only this way. After i did it phone was on 85 per cent charge and ive been using it alot today, now it has 36 per cent left after 26 hours. I had to recharge after 10 hours of use before. I dont know if this just was a fluke, but im definitely getting better battery life now.
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Interesting... Is it possible that after doing the factory reset some of the bloatware didn't get restored? Did you notice any other difference?
So what you're saying is you had processes/apps running that you couldn't shut off and were causing errors, but when you were able to stop them from running by way of factory reset your battery life improved? So in essence, the battery doesn't drain as fast when the phone is not in constant state of arousal...I think my mind was blown
Traqic,
I guess your just trying to be cute..with that comment. I was trying to help some others here that may be having battery issues. I didn't do a factory reset to stop applications from running, the phone, was going wacky on me for no reason hence my decision. Now if you want to talk like an adult i'll entertain your thoughts otherwise do us all a favor and go away.
abacus0101 said:
Make sure you download the program from www.samsung.com/us/ kies
Once you run it back up everything. Then go into recovery and do the reset from there. Good luck.
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hey abacus, do you mean go into recovery using the Kies software? thx..
No the kies program is used to fully back ip the device. Itmtakes a smapshot basically of everything you have there provided you select all, music,apps,contacts, messages,notes ect ect. Then when you are fully backed up, you will power down. Then hold the up volume first then the home button down and with a third finger while still doing this you hit power button, its then you will enter recovery and thats where you can wipe the data and then do a restore to factory, omce thats dome, test your device to make sure its working ok, then re attach to your computer, it works better on windows machines, then provided you didnt close kies from previous backup youll see a restore box click off select all takes about 15'min or so and it writes back all your apps messages motes comtacts ect. Hope this clarifiys it for you.
Make sure you let it completely finish before disconnecting because ifmyou disconject in middle,you could,corrupt it. The program is great because as itmprogresses it putsma check mark nextmto each thimg it backsup and restores. Its almost like titatinium backup. All my apps were restored. Dont know if data associated was also, didnt check that.
abacus0101 said:
Had a problem with phone where talkback enabled itself in pocket. I forced quit it and somehow messed up voice feedback in s-voice. I was on phone with samsung tech for 2 hours trying to figure out what happened. Anyway we did a full backup apps, contacts numbers everything to pc, usingg program kies that samsung provides. After got into recovery wiped the device and reset it. Tech told me never to factory reset from phone only this way. After i did it phone was on 85 per cent charge and ive been using it alot today, now it has 36 per cent left after 26 hours. I had to recharge after 10 hours of use before. I dont know if this just was a fluke, but im definitely getting better battery life now.
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After you factory reset that way, are the bloatware (ATT apps, facebook and such) still on there? Would be GREAT to get rid of some of these apps that I'll never use.
Unfortunately at&t and rest of bloatware is still there.
abacus0101 said:
Unfortunately at&t and rest of bloatware is still there.
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It was too good to be true lol
lebertian said:
It was too good to be true lol
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You can disable most bloatware.
firefly2004 said:
You can disable most bloatware.
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Yeah I know, it just feels so much better when you can completed get rid of it!
Thank for your suggestion. I have one of my own, get a better keyboard or turn off auto correction....or learn how to spell.
Hi XDA,
My friend her G3 randomly shuts down sometimes, and it's impossible to boot it again for a while. After several hours it'll boot again on its own, and it seems like it went into some sort of hibernation since she doesn't have to enter her pin or anything.
Things she tried include removing the battery, holding down the power button for a long duration and charging the phone. Last time this happened the phone was at roughly 30% battery.
Does anyone here maybe have an idea what it could be or what a possible solution would be? It sounds like a very strange and improbably issue to me.
Thanks for reading!
verluci said:
Hi XDA,
My friend her G3 randomly shuts down sometimes, and it's impossible to boot it again for a while. After several hours it'll boot again on its own, and it seems like it went into some sort of hibernation since she doesn't have to enter her pin or anything.
Things she tried include removing the battery, holding down the power button for a long duration and charging the phone. Last time this happened the phone was at roughly 30% battery.
Does anyone here maybe have an idea what it could be or what a possible solution would be? It sounds like a very strange and improbably issue to me.
Thanks for reading!
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This is due to kernal panic.
Flash stock firmware may be this will fix your problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2785089
Again this is a biasn answer could be kernal panic bad tweak rogue app. Ive even saw one that had a battery crap out on him out of nowhere
TheMadScientist420 said:
Again this is a biasn answer could be kernal panic bad tweak rogue app. Ive even saw one that had a battery crap out on him out of nowhere
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From next time i will try to mention all the possible reasons
Thank you straight flashing back stock may be a quick fix most of the time but we dont figure out the cause so we end up in the same boat cause we try to tweak the same tweaks. I dont claim to have the answers and yours could be correct. And i also accept critisism if im wrong
verluci said:
Hi XDA,
My friend her G3 randomly shuts down sometimes, and it's impossible to boot it again for a while. After several hours it'll boot again on its own, and it seems like it went into some sort of hibernation since she doesn't have to enter her pin or anything.
Things she tried include removing the battery, holding down the power button for a long duration and charging the phone. Last time this happened the phone was at roughly 30% battery.
Does anyone here maybe have an idea what it could be or what a possible solution would be? It sounds like a very strange and improbably issue to me.
Thanks for reading!
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This could be a battery error. Is your battery old or new?. Otherwise it could be a kernel issue which can be caused by under volting or other tweaks within the kernel. If you are on stock ROM with stock kernel the only option is bad battery or hardware issue. Try factory resetting your phone if this doesn't work it is likely to be a hardware issue
Hello all,
I need some serious help here. I was using my Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra when DURING USAGE, the phone decided to reboot. It is rare but it happens. But the problem escalated when it refused to reboot again. It has constantly been in a boot loop ever since. It did fully RESTART TWICE in the middle but before I could unlock the phone it slipped back into its boot loop coma.
Everything on the phone is stock, updated to the latest versions for all I know. No combination of power and volume buttons help. What it only does it switch it from boot loops to a static boot screen.
ANY HELP OR EXPLAINATION WILL BE APPRECIATED !!
Sincerely,
SRV
These phones should never spontaneously reboot. That indicates a potentially severe problem; always take any sign of system instability seriously. Often it's the only warning you get before a boot loop.
You need to get into safe mode or the boot menu to do a factory reset. Make sure you're using the proper sequence and timing matters. Try holding the power button down for at least 30 seconds.
Poorly written apps can do this. It may be the firmware was corrupted (possibly a single event upset) or a hardware failure. Play with it...
@blackhawk
I have tried:
power button hold for long
power button + volume up
power button + volume down
all three
The current situation is:
It is stuck on boot screen for 5~10 random minutes then starts cycling again. What do you figure could be the reason for it to have fully restarted (then gone back bootlooping) when the situation was fresh ?
Do you think i should let it drain out ? (How long would it take lol)
Perhaps try unplugging the battery/ removing SD card WHILE its still booting ?
Don't know, not normal behavior. Maybe someone else has seen this before.
Try pulling the SD card* and sim card.
Try hooking up to the PC. Let it drain out ie hard reboot. Anything to break the cycle.
*it's backed up, right?
My S20U had the exact same issue last year. I had to send it in for repair and they replaced the motherboard.
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My S20U had the exact same issue last year. I had to send it in for repair and they replaced the motherboard.
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You weren't able to get it in recovery at all right ? and how much did it end up costing you ?
blackhawk said:
Don't know, not normal behavior. Maybe someone else has seen this before.
Try pulling the SD card* and sim card.
Try hooking up to the PC. Let it drain out ie hard reboot. Anything to break the cycle.
*it's backed up, right?
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I let it drain to zero, it calmly powers off and saves a tiny amount of battery just to display the 0% battery image when I try to turn it on. The the moment I plug it back in, bootloop.
Though I'm sure you mean let it drain dead zero, I've left it to do that.
panzer27 said:
I let it drain to zero, it calmly powers off and saves a tiny amount of battery just to display the 0% battery image when I try to turn it on. The the moment I plug it back in, bootloop.
Though I'm sure you mean let it drain dead zero, I've left it to do that.
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The last really good flagship Samsung made was the N10+ snap. Everything that followed has had hardware issues, mostly the displays. The only way you know there are issues though is when people post about them on forums. Who knows what the actual number is? Only Samsung and those wimps won't owe up to it.
It may still be a firmware issue and not hardware.
If it is hardware it may be an issue with a ribbon cable or other module, and not the mobo. A Samsung Experience center at Best buy may be able to help and reflash it. Don't give up quit yet.
Yes drain it until it won't try to boot and the battery auto shuts down. You probably saw a "robound" effect where the battery recovered enough to have enough power to boot.
If it needs a mobo consider the repair price vs the price of a new (still available) or used N975U1/N975U. In my opinion this is a better Note in spite of some of the missing features. Just a rock solid work horse that's form factor is superb, well balanced with perhaps the best display in terms of color/gamma accuracy and calibration. I have two of them... no regrets. They are a joy to use.
The 3 yo one has over 8k hours on it and it looks, feels and runs like new, zero display degradation.
Only repair has been a battery replacement. A new one will be loaded with Android 10 which I prefer over 11/12. Pie though is still my favorite and the oldest one is still running on Pie.
I'm not pleased with Samsung's flagships since the N10+... Samsung just keeps dropping balls and lives on hype rather than solid performance.
Sammy, you suck elephant balls bad now.
My wife and I also experienced a similar issue with our S20 Ultra 5G. Except ours was an update that literally just killed the device. We tried every combination of buttons to get into recovery or bootloader mode with no success. Ultimately we had to send the device to a Samsung service center to have the LCD, battery and motherboard switched out.
blackhawk said:
The last really good flagship Samsung made was the N10+ snap. Everything that followed has had hardware issues, mostly the displays. The only way you know there are issues though is when people post about them on forums. Who knows what the actual number is? Only Samsung and those wimps won't owe up to it.
It may still be a firmware issue and not hardware.
If it is hardware it may be an issue with a ribbon cable or other module, and not the mobo. A Samsung Experience center at Best buy may be able to help and reflash it. Don't give up quit yet.
Yes drain it until it won't try to boot and the battery auto shuts down. You probably saw a "robound" effect where the battery recovered enough to have enough power to boot.
If it needs a mobo consider the repair price vs the price of a new (still available) or used N975U1/N975U. In my opinion this is a better Note in spite of some of the missing features. Just a rock solid work horse that's form factor is superb, well balanced with perhaps the best display in terms of color/gamma accuracy and calibration. I have two of them... no regrets. They are a joy to use.
The 3 yo one has over 8k hours on it and it looks, feels and runs like new, zero display degradation.
Only repair has been a battery replacement. A new one will be loaded with Android 10 which I prefer over 11/12. Pie though is still my favorite and the oldest one is still running on Pie.
I'm not pleased with Samsung's flagships since the N10+... Samsung just keeps dropping balls and lives on hype rather than solid performance.
Sammy, you suck elephant balls bad now.
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Thanks for your inputs...
I let the battery drain condiderably, then with that low battery, I just pressed power button. Voila, recovery screen.
I have wiped the cache partition and am waiting for it to reboot (which the command line the screen says)
Does it say "rebooting..." for a long time or am I screwed further ?
panzer27 said:
Thanks for your inputs...
I let the battery drain condiderably, then with that low battery, I just pressed power button. Voila, recovery screen.
I have wiped the cache partition and am waiting for it to reboot (which the command line the screen says)
Does it say "rebooting..." for a long time or am I screwed further ?
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Go for safe mode at the most. Normal mode will likely loop you again.
If you don't need to recover data> factory reset most rikky tik. Clearing the cache for this won't do squat.
The user data partition is corrupted at the least. If a factory reset clears the boot loop, be careful what you reload... or you'll be doing this again.
This is assuming the loop was caused by a 3rd party app or malware. A definite possibility.
Remember if you encrypted the SD card a factory reset will wipe that key and your access.
blackhawk said:
Go for safe mode at the most. Normal mode will likely loop you again.
If you don't need to recover data> factory reset most rikky tik. Clearing the cache for this won't do squat.
The user data partition is corrupted at the least. If a factory reset clears the boot loop, be careful what you reload... or you'll be doing this again.
This is assuming the loop was caused by a 3rd party app or malware. A definite possibility.
Remember if you encrypted the SD card a factory reset will wipe that key and your access.
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I am dead sure it is Malware.
I got it up and running and looping a few times now. The battery draining probably cleared some flags that prevented a normal reboot.
Phone has survived a minute in safe mode. Let's see
blackhawk said:
Go for safe mode at the most. Normal mode will likely loop you again.
If you don't need to recover data> factory reset most rikky tik. Clearing the cache for this won't do squat.
The user data partition is corrupted at the least. If a factory reset clears the boot loop, be careful what you reload... or you'll be doing this again.
This is assuming the loop was caused by a 3rd party app or malware. A definite possibility.
Remember if you encrypted the SD card a factory reset will wipe that key and your access.
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Current status is that it stays on for 2~5 minutes.
There is a software update should I go for it ?
panzer27 said:
Current status is that it stays on for 2~5 minutes.
There is a software update should I go for it ?
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Negative. Keep the playing field level. An update now could brick it.
Factory reset if you can. No known rootkits can worm out of the user data partition on Android 9 or higher. A factory reset will purge it if that's the cause. Kill the intruder.
Delete your Samsung and especially Google accounts in settings first if possible. Reset your Google account password after you factory reset, write it down. If it was malware try to figure out when, where and how it breached the device. Any odd behavior that signaled the event.
blackhawk said:
Negative. Keep the playing field level. An update now could brick it.
Factory reset if you can. No known rootkits can worm out of the user data partition on Android 9 or higher. A factory reset will purge it if that's the cause. Kill the intruder.
Delete your Samsung and especially Google accounts in settings first if possible. Reset your Google account password after you factory reset, write it down. If it was malware try to figure out when, where and how it breached the device. Any odd behavior that signaled the event.
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I should have read this on time, I wen for the software update Wont go beyond 25%. Boot looping
blackhawk said:
Negative. Keep the playing field level. An update now could brick it.
Factory reset if you can. No known rootkits can worm out of the user data partition on Android 9 or higher. A factory reset will purge it if that's the cause. Kill the intruder.
Delete your Samsung and especially Google accounts in settings first if possible. Reset your Google account password after you factory reset, write it down. If it was malware try to figure out when, where and how it breached the device. Any odd behavior that signaled the event.
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I am in download mode. Can I flash a stock firmware using odin ? and will that Still keep my phone legit ?
panzer27 said:
I should have read this on time, I wen for the software update Wont go beyond 25%. Boot looping
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Did it completely download the update?
If not try to get into boot menu again. Factory reset. Otherwise it will need to be reflashed.
panzer27 said:
I am in download mode. Can I flash a stock firmware using odin ? and will that Still keep my phone legit ?
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As long as you flash the correct stock rom. Make sure it's the right one!!!
Not sure about the best method. Make sure you find out what is the best shot as you could hard brick the phone if you goof this up.
Throw it to Samsung if in doubt.
I've been fortunate and never had to do this. One reason I leave the Android firmware alone, avoiding even upgrades and updates. Android firmware flashing is the most complicated I've seen. A PC bios or a Canon Pro shooter, router are a snap to do by comparison.
blackhawk said:
Did it completely download the update?
If not try to get into boot menu again. Factory reset. Otherwise it will need to be reflashed.
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It downloaded everything, rebooted and started installing the update. Reached 30% then slipped to bootlooping vigorously. To get to the boot menu I would have to discharge the phone again. Because of the installation process, do you think draining the battery could brick the phone ? I could leave it to discharge if this is not a risk and 30% will be rolled back.
Do advise.
panzer27 said:
It downloaded everything, rebooted and started installing the update. Reached 30% then slipped to bootlooping vigorously. To get to the boot menu I would have to discharge the phone again. Because of the installation process, do you think draining the battery could brick the phone ? I could leave it to discharge if this is not a risk and 30% will be rolled back.
Do advise.
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Update or reflashing the stock rom?
You should never interrupt when it's flashing. Yeah it could definitely at least soft brick it.