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Phone won't turn on / No battery charging light, etc. Any ideas?

Hey everyone,
I searched and couldn't find anyone with the same problem. I turned on my phone, got to the lock screen and the lock screen was frozen. I tried for a little while and nothing was working so I pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, my phone refuses to turn on. No boot screen or anything.
I've tried charging it with/without battery (no led indication that it's charging). I tried this method found on another phone's board: "Once battery is out, leave out for 15-30 mins, reinstall battery WITHOUT turning device on, plug in power supply, wait an additional 5-10 mins before turning back on." But nothing.
My ROM is SyndicateRom Frozen if it matters.
Let me know if you guys have any suggestions, otherwise I'll head to the sprint store today.

jimmythegent said:
Hey everyone,
I searched and couldn't find anyone with the same problem. I turned on my phone, got to the lock screen and the lock screen was frozen. I tried for a little while and nothing was working so I pulled the battery. After putting the battery back in, my phone refuses to turn on. No boot screen or anything.
I've tried charging it with/without battery (no led indication that it's charging). I tried this method found on another phone's board: "Once battery is out, leave out for 15-30 mins, reinstall battery WITHOUT turning device on, plug in power supply, wait an additional 5-10 mins before turning back on." But nothing.
My ROM is SyndicateRom Frozen if it matters.
Let me know if you guys have any suggestions, otherwise I'll head to the sprint store today.
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If it is the latest with 1.2 Vision kernel then your phone is bricked. You need to try and force it into download mode to Odin back to stock. There are several threads for people who have bricked phones. Search using Vision kernel bricked.
Do you BONSAI?

Thanks. I'll do that. I did have the 1.2 vision kernel.
Unfortunately, can't find a way to get into download mode. If I take it into Sprint, do you think they'll be able to tell I've been mucking with the kernel/custom roms or is it bricked enough that they'll just wipe / replace it?

No. Sprint will replace. Just tell them you turned it off to charge and it wouldn't come back on.
If you want to try and save it, pull the battery out, hold power button for 30 seconds, plug cable into computer, hold the 1 key on the keyboard and hold the power button to see if you can get into download mode. If so then you can follow the instructions in the sticky for How to fix a "bricked" epic/return to stock.
Do you BONSAI?

I would suggest leaving the battery out for about 20 mins.. then charging it for about an hour. then pull the battery hold power for about 30 secs stick the battery in and hold 1 and power. see if that gets you in DL mode. thats the pattern i had to follow to get repeatd DL modes from my VK brick for diagnosing the problem.

I already took it to Sprint and they've ordered me a replacement so I can't try that out. Hopefully your post will be useful to someone else with the same problem.
Thanks anyways

[Q] Galaxy S2 wont boot anymore

I'm running P.A.C-Man v22.0.1 on twrp .
I've had no issues until today I was charging my phone then unplugged it. A few minutes later I checked my phone and it wasn't on. I pressed the power button and got no response. I pulled the battery and got the samsung logo without pressing the power button then it went to the PACman boot animation for about 1 second and turned off. I pulled the battery again and now it will show me the samsung logo then the bottom soft keys light up for not even a second and the phone turns off. I've tried getting into recovery and I'm only able to get to the TEAMWIN screen and the phone turns off . I tried switching batteries with my brothers phone and I get the same issue with his batttery. His phone boots up just fine with my battery. I'm not sure what could be causing this and I've tried searching and haven't found anything. Any help is appreciated:crying:

It sounds like you have the sticky power button issue. There are some ideas to try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931310

meekrawb said:
It sounds like you have the sticky power button issue. There are some ideas to try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931310
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Thank you Ill give it a try and report back

I was about to go buy a precision screwdriver set and i kept banging the power button with an eraser (one guy in that bandaid fix thread mentioned it) and it worked. I'm still going to go buy the set anyway just in case thanks for your help:highfive:

Flash back to stock with odim
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[Q] Not quite sudden death - but still a major problem

So I recently installed CM 10.1.2 on my S3, and everything worked perfectly for a few days. Yesterday though, my phone started acting strangely (lag when turning screen off, registering phantom input, etc) and began rebooting every few minutes. At some point, it ran out of battery - and now I can no longer boot past the CM loading wheel screen.
I can't boot to recovery, and I don't think my phone is taking charge (from my computer or a wall outlet), and the farthest I can get is the loading wheel - sometimes it only gets as far as displaying the Samsung logo, or the Galaxy S3 screen with the android dude at the bottom.
I'm still covered under warranty, and would love to take it to the store for a replacement (I've had battery issues prior to this), but the fact that it can get to the CM loading wheel means that they might figure out that I've rooted and whatnot. But I can't get to recovery to flash a stock image, so...what can I do?

vortexface said:
So I recently installed CM 10.1.2 on my S3, and everything worked perfectly for a few days. Yesterday though, my phone started acting strangely (lag when turning screen off, registering phantom input, etc) and began rebooting every few minutes. At some point, it ran out of battery - and now I can no longer boot past the CM loading wheel screen.
I can't boot to recovery, and I don't think my phone is taking charge (from my computer or a wall outlet), and the farthest I can get is the loading wheel - sometimes it only gets as far as displaying the Samsung logo, or the Galaxy S3 screen with the android dude at the bottom.
I'm still covered under warranty, and would love to take it to the store for a replacement (I've had battery issues prior to this), but the fact that it can get to the CM loading wheel means that they might figure out that I've rooted and whatnot. But I can't get to recovery to flash a stock image, so...what can I do?
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Your best shot is to either borrow someone's S3 battery or buy a battery pack. Use that to restore your phone back to stock (unroot) and then you can go to the store for replacement.

alltechinside said:
Your best shot is to either borrow someone's S3 battery or buy a battery pack. Use that to restore your phone back to stock (unroot) and then you can go to the store for replacement.
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So turns out battery isn't the issue, I used a wall charger to get it to full charge. I can get it to the download mode confirmation screen, and can press volume up to confirm - but my phone reboots soon after that.
Recovery isn't really possible either, I can see the blue text in the upper right but my phone reboots after that as well.
My phone will often show an empty battery icon with a little refresh icon in the middle; does this indicate that it doesn't see the battery as charged (even though it is)?

vortexface said:
So turns out battery isn't the issue, I used a wall charger to get it to full charge. I can get it to the download mode confirmation screen, and can press volume up to confirm - but my phone reboots soon after that.
Recovery isn't really possible either, I can see the blue text in the upper right but my phone reboots after that as well.
My phone will often show an empty battery icon with a little refresh icon in the middle; does this indicate that it doesn't see the battery as charged (even though it is)?
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My phone started having the same problem yesterday and I tried my friends battery but it still doesn't work.

mtmodi said:
My phone started having the same problem yesterday and I tried my friends battery but it still doesn't work.
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Yeah I've been doing some research into the issue...
I've noticed that my phone automatically boots when I put the battery in, and that it'll do a quick vibrate when plugged in to a power source (outlet or computer) but won't turn on.
Apparently the phone isn't supposed to boot automatically when the battery is put in, and this could be the source of the random reboots - I think if I can get the rebooting under control, I'll be able to get into download mode and fix it all. But I'm not sure how to do that. Maybe the power button has gone bad, as it also doesn't usually respond when I try to use it to turn on.
If there is a problem with the power button, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?

vortexface said:
Yeah I've been doing some research into the issue...
I've noticed that my phone automatically boots when I put the battery in, and that it'll do a quick vibrate when plugged in to a power source (outlet or computer) but won't turn on.
Apparently the phone isn't supposed to boot automatically when the battery is put in, and this could be the source of the random reboots - I think if I can get the rebooting under control, I'll be able to get into download mode and fix it all. But I'm not sure how to do that. Maybe the power button has gone bad, as it also doesn't usually respond when I try to use it to turn on.
If there is a problem with the power button, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix it?
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Mine does the exact same thing where I have to pull the battery and when I put it back in it automatically starts up and when I go to download or recovery it turns off before I can do anything

Sounds like power button issue.
I was having the same issues (random reboots, boot loop, powering on when battery put in, reboots in download mode and recovery)
This is not an easy fix. I ended up pulling the power button out and just setting my screen to time out after 15 seconds. Sucks but it works now.
If I ever need to turn off or hard reboot, I stick a pin in the power button hole and push down on the button.
Really turning me off on purchasing future Samsung phones
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The power button is a common issue for these phones.

[Q] HOX wont start up after new battery replacement.

Hi.
I had a HOX which I wanted my daughter to use, which was running android Revolution custom ROM, but the battery was on the way out. So I purchased a new battery, dismantled the phone with no issues, changed out the battery and put it back together. I then gave it a full charge, till the charge light was green. But now the phone will not switch on at all. I have tried the usual button tricks, power + Vol Up & Down, Power + Vol Down to try and reset the battery status or boot it into recovery, but nothing works. I just get a Green double flashing light after about ten seconds, and this only goes on while you hold the power button down. The phone is recognised when you plug it onto the PC. I tried updating the drivers in the PC to see if this woudl help, as I read this as a suggestion as well, but nothing seems to be able to get it to start up again.
Took it apart again today, put the old battery back in, checked no cables had come out. All well but it still will not power up.
I am at a loss as to why this is the case. Spent the last week on and off online looking for a solution, but have found nothing that works.
I can't find anything about a double flashing green light when you try to power up the phone.
If anyone has any idea how to get it at least booting back into recovery that would be great!
TIA.

Galaxy note 4, Wont Boot battery 100% charged

hi everyone, i got a new battery some week ago, this morning i unplug my charger from my cellphone like every morning. the cellphone working fine. so i go on my car plug the AUX cable, lock my phone screen. after that my cellphone dont want to wake up.
i try to remove the battery for some time and start the phone. don't work.
so i come back into my house plug my charger back, i saw the little battery logo appear and disappear.
i try to hold the power button while the charger is plug in. i saw one time the galaxy note 4 boot screen appear and disappear again.
anyone have a hint what can i do to recover my phone ?
sorry about the bad english im from québec,canada.
Thanks a lots

just a little update, i can go to the download mode without any issues, but recovery mod don't work.
into the recovery mode, i saw the recovery mod text but reboot.