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Bricked?! [UPDATED]

I tried searching, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me and I don't know what to do.. I'm kind of freaking out. The last update I installed was darkside beta02, and I was really liking it minus a few connection and call issues. Anyways, I was in my car earlier today and picked out a song on play music. The phone instantly turned off, and it appeared that it was about to reboot so I didn't think much about it. Nope. When it starts to turn on it rarely makes it past the samsung screens that pops up right when you start the phone, but it has made it as far as the swirling samsung s splash screen thing. It just acts like it is rebooting from that part and it's like a never ending cycle until I remove the battery. I can get the phone into download mode by plugging it into the computer, but it only stays on for a few seconds and then goes back to it's never ending reboot. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I really can't afford to have bricked this phone
UPDATE: I managed to restore the phone to stock, and I proceeded to root and put darkside beta 7.1 on it. Everything was running fine... For a few hours. It began to do the same rebooting described above, but now instead of looking like it's going to boot normally it goes straight to a screen that says "Firmware encountered an issue. Please sleect recovery mode in Kies and try again." with the phone model, "Custom Binary Download: No" and "Current Binary: Samsung Official" up top. It only stays at this screen for a few seconds before it starts back into it endless half-reboot. Any suggestions? This is frustrating me A LOT.

uh, have you tried charging it? Honestly at first blush it sounds like a dead battery.

blackangst said:
uh, have you tried charging it? Honestly at first blush it sounds like a dead battery.
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Yes I've charged it overnight... And it does the same thing when it's on the charger without the battery in.

Can you get into recovery? My wife's phone did something similar out of no where. I had to restore a nandroid.
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bobby3306 said:
Can you get into recovery? My wife's phone did something similar out of no where. I had to restore a nandroid.
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No luck with recovery Forgot to include that in the original post.

The K-Zoo Kid said:
No luck with recovery Forgot to include that in the original post.
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So did you take the battery out put it in and then flash into recovery using touch method?
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suaverc118 said:
So did you take the battery out put it in and then flash into recovery using touch method?
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What exactly is the touch method?

Go to recovery and clear cache and restore factory settings
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Go to recovery and clear cache and restore factory settings
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He said he can't get into recovery.
Do you have insurance? Might want to take it to a store.
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Oops sorry about that. I would reset your flash counts and try and take it back to the store if possible... seems like your only option if you can't get into recovery. Or reflash stock. Then root again then clear cache and then factory defaults
If you can get it to stay on long enough-- in Odin
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blackangst said:
He said he can't get into recovery.
Do you have insurance? Might want to take it to a store.
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Wouldn't they just tell me I'm out of luck because my phone is clearly rooted and whatnot?

pcamlin said:
Oops sorry about that. I would reset your flash counts and try and take it back to the store if possible... seems like your only option if you can't get into recovery. Or reflash stock. Then root again then clear cache and then factory defaults
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The problem is that I can't do anything but watch the phone start up for about 10 seconds, or be in download mode for about 10 seconds. Not much time to do anything.

That is why you reset flash counts before you go in... Google is your friend and try to unroot somehow--
You are quick! Lol I edited my post just after you replied to it
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The K-Zoo Kid said:
I tried searching, but I couldn't find anyone with the same problem as me and I don't know what to do.. I'm kind of freaking out. The last update I installed was darkside beta02, and I was really liking it minus a few connection and call issues. Anyways, I was in my car earlier today and picked out a song on play music. The phone instantly turned off, and it appeared that it was about to reboot so I didn't think much about it. Nope. When it starts to turn on it rarely makes it past the samsung screens that pops up right when you start the phone, but it has made it as far as the swirling samsung s splash screen thing. It just acts like it is rebooting from that part and it's like a never ending cycle until I remove the battery. I can get the phone into download mode by plugging it into the computer, but it only stays on for a few seconds and then goes back to it's never ending reboot. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, I really can't afford to have bricked this phone
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I had this exact thing happen to me today!! For the last week or so, I would get a random reboot up to four times a day. This started happening after I flashed Whitehawkx UVLDE zip. What I did was left the battery in the phone let the constant reboot run until the battery died. Then I would try to get into download mode, but then it would reboot before Odin recognized it. I left the usb plug in the phone and took the battery out, the phone would still do the rebooting vibration. I just stayed with trying to get the phone to stay on long enough to get recognized by Odin. Leave the drained battery out of the phone for a while (your choice of how long, I left it for about forty minutes) and replace it, hopefully it stays on long enough to get recognized. Finally it stayed on long enough and I re-flashed ULKL1. Now I'm back to running TDJ's DARKSIDE. EVOLUTION.2 [BETA 3] and I haven't had any reboots where as before it would reboot within fifteen minutes.

thedarkness37 said:
I had this exact thing happen to me today!! For the last week or so, I would get a random reboot up to four times a day. This started happening after I flashed Whitehawkx UVLDE zip. What I did was left the battery in the phone let the constant reboot run until the battery died. Then I would try to get into download mode, but then it would reboot before Odin recognized it. I left the usb plug in the phone and took the battery out, the phone would still do the rebooting vibration. I just stayed with trying to get the phone to stay on long enough to get recognized by Odin. Leave the drained battery out of the phone for a while (your choice of how long, I left it for about forty minutes) and replace it, hopefully it stays on long enough to get recognized. Finally it stayed on long enough and I re-flashed ULKL1. Now I'm back to running TDJ's DARKSIDE. EVOLUTION.2 [BETA 3] and I haven't had any reboots where as before it would reboot within fifteen minutes.
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Thank you! And when you say replace the battery, do you mean get a whole new one or put in the dead one?

Just put the dead one in.

My advice is similar to his, but without killing the battery. Open odin on your computer, and input what your going to input into pda and have everything ready to go, so all you have to do is press start and its off. Now, start with the phone turned off, hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb cable from the computer quickly! Have your hand ready on the mouse and ready to click start. Soon as odin recognizes click that start button! Hopefully everything happened so quick, that the phone will take the flash. However, if it doesn't, then I'm afraid the only answer you would have left is to use a jig to reset the counter and take it in to be replaced.

OGWisdom said:
My advice is similar to his, but without killing the battery. Open odin on your computer, and input what your going to input into pda and have everything ready to go, so all you have to do is press start and its off. Now, start with the phone turned off, hold both volume buttons and plug in the usb cable from the computer quickly! Have your hand ready on the mouse and ready to click start. Soon as odin recognizes click that start button! Hopefully everything happened so quick, that the phone will take the flash. However, if it doesn't, then I'm afraid the only answer you would have left is to use a jig to reset the counter and take it in to be replaced.
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I've tried this, but I didn't even have time to get it started. It's beginning to look like I'm out of luck

The K-Zoo Kid said:
I've tried this, but I didn't even have time to get it started. It's beginning to look like I'm out of luck
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If you cant get it to Odin, and if you cant get it to download mode, and if you cant get it to turn on, neither can TMo. Take it in.

blackangst said:
If you cant get it to Odin, and if you cant get it to download mode, and if you cant get it to turn on, neither can TMo. Take it in.
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The thing is, it starts to start up, and you can clearly see that it's rooted. I feel like they won't honor my warranty.

one x doesn't turn on, charge, or go into recovery.

as title says. last night I was simply watching a movie when i noticed the handset was very very hot, which is weird as it wasn't doing anything too stressing, i figured id let it cooldown abit, not two seconds after the video stopped, the audio went all messed up. I turned it off manually, and it restarted all normally. it happened again, although it wasn't particularly hot, however this time I did not manually restart it, I figured id wait to see if it sorts itself out. Instead it turned off. And it refuses to power on, charge or even go into boot. No idea, what's wrong.
Running on Leedroid OneXtreme 6.4.

shamsul007 said:
as title says. last night I was simply watching a movie when i noticed the handset was very very hot, which is weird as it wasn't doing anything too stressing, i figured id let it cooldown abit, not two seconds after the video stopped, the audio went all messed up. I turned it off manually, and it restarted all normally. it happened again, although it wasn't particularly hot, however this time I did not manually restart it, I figured id wait to see if it sorts itself out. Instead it turned off. And it refuses to power on, charge or even go into boot. No idea, what's wrong.
Running on Leedroid OneXtreme 6.4.
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can you go through adb,fastboot...?responds to PC when is on USB???LED lights when is in the charger?
If not, you can not through the PC...no response then.....
Unfortunately your motherboard is dead...

absolutely nothing, no flashing led, nothing when connect to pc/laptop. no response to anything.

shamsul007 said:
absolutely nothing, no flashing led, nothing when connect to pc/laptop. no response to anything.
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then I'm sure you lost the motherboard...brick your phone...warranty period .... good luck

i have same problem

mehrshad said:
i have same problem
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Got that twice with ma HOX...trust me...just plug on wall charger and leave it for a while (30mins or so) and when LED starts to flash, try to boot your device again.

i will try

This is weird but yeah I left in charge for about 12± hours, started flashing about a few mins ago and it's working perfectly. Pretty sure my phone is possessed. So yeah leave it in charge until it flashes.
Btw I'm not doing much, and it's already getting a bit warm, anything I can do to make my phone handle more? Is there a way to under clock this?
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ok i will put in charge from now till next 12 or 13 hours
i hope to fix it
thanks

do a full wipe fastboot erase cache and re flash a rom something is doing something naughty
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mehrshad said:
ok i will put in charge from now till next 12 or 13 hours
i hope to fix it
thanks
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Good luck! Let me know if it starts working, we could have some sort of alternative medicine on our hands here.
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it's in charge about 13 hours
nothing change and it doesn't flashing led
HELP

No idea then, motherboard may be dead if that's how unresponsive it is. If you have warranty send it off for repairs. Can you get into recovery? How about plugging it into a laptop/computer?
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that sounds very bad

Has anyone tried this?
I had the same problem, no warranty because I unlocked it. Got it back, and found this topic.
Note: It can happen you need to try different pc/notebooks before it charges. I had to switch to 3 different pc s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084
Hope this helps.
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its done it again, heated up, now its completely frozen, just gonna have to go through the whole process again. the overheating issues with this phone is ****ed up.

Amicushia said:
Has anyone tried this?
I had the same problem, no warranty because I unlocked it. Got it back, and found this topic.
Note: It can happen you need to try different pc/notebooks before it charges. I had to switch to 3 different pc s.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658084
Hope this helps.
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Do not talk nonsense, do not lose the warranty if the unlocked bootloader, but this board is dead aniway , nothing can see. Send to the service and solve the problem.

JohnnyBlack10 said:
Do not talk nonsense, do not lose the warranty if the unlocked bootloader, but this board is dead aniway , nothing can see. Send to the service and solve the problem.
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Oh yes it does. I Fixed it with that script after i got it back from HTC.
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First time I need help, and it's a big one and hope it a positive result.
I come from viper 2.1.0
I wiped 3 times everythnig. Installed CM10 v8. then google addons, than entered fastboot and instal boot.img than erased....
Booted into android made preliminary input. started to download files and restored my old apps from google play. Whet to settings than from settings I pulled down status bar.
HOX frozze and than I presed the power button and thas' it.
NOW it does not wake up, even if I put the power cord in no lights go ON, nothing. It's like a BRICK.
Anyone any ideas.
you guys think if I send this to reapir and play stupit that thay will now that i had unlocked bootloader

[Q] Rooted phone and now wont turn on

I recently Rooted my sealed samsung galaxy s3 without having a clue what i'm doing i downloaded this program called snapdragon to root it along with ODIN. The phone rooted fine everything was working okay, I even downloaded an app to see if the root was successful and indeed it was. I shut the phone down wake up in the morning to turn it back on and I get zero response. Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Might seem obvious, but have you tried leaving it plugged in for ten-fifteen minutes?

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Might seem obvious, but have you tried leaving it plugged in for ten-fifteen minutes?
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Yes of course I've tried leaving it plugged in for several hours and the night before the phone was at 100% charge so I doubt battery is the issue.
Tks though

Did you try booting into recovery?
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Ummm seems like u can fix it.... go bak to stock using odin as well and go back to stock and i believe cwm is going to be gone so as your root access so re-do it but this time guide yourself through a turorial(a.k.a google) and since you have to clue i think the best choice for you is to find a video tutorial in case your doubting or getting confused with the steps or sometimes to see what you did wrong that caused the phone to misbehave...
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*sigh*
This is why I hate one-click-root kits, you get people doing things to their phones they don't understand, wreck it and come here saying "help, I don't know what do do!" Something like this you really should at least understand the basics. I hope this gets you more involved in researching what's actually happening. It's important to know what's happening to your device as well as why, that way if something goes badly you'll have an idea of how to get out of it.
Sorry, enough lecturing, let's see if we can get something going here. Give a bit more detail about what happens. You're phone is shut down, right? You hit the power button and no response, like the battery is actually out of the phone, or does it turn on and give you a blank screen? If it was a brick, I'd think you'd at least see the boot screen before everything goes wrong.
Ok, I'm going to go ahead and assume you've removed the battery. If you haven't, do so now.
If it still won't turn on, try actually holding the power button down for 30-60 seconds. I had a scary moment with my phone yesterday, rebooted it running Wicked v5 on Trinity and the screen just died. I've been running that rom for a week with just a couple of issues here and there, nothing out of the ordinary. Pulled the battery and tried again, nothing. After holding the power button down for a bit I felt a quick vibrate, then the boot logo came up. No idea why, I'm going to have to look into it.
Beyond that, I'm brand new to this phone and Sammy's Android devices so I'm still learning myself. HTC phones I could help out more with, but I'm still a bit clueless with this thing.

kitsunisan said:
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This is why I hate one-click-root kits, you get people doing things to their phones they don't understand, wreck it and come here saying "help, I don't know what do do!" Something like this you really should at least understand the basics. I hope this gets you more involved in researching what's actually happening. It's important to know what's happening to your device as well as why, that way if something goes badly you'll have an idea of how to get out of it.
Sorry, enough lecturing, let's see if we can get something going here. Give a bit more detail about what happens. You're phone is shut down, right? You hit the power button and no response, like the battery is actually out of the phone, or does it turn on and give you a blank screen? If it was a brick, I'd think you'd at least see the boot screen before everything goes wrong.
Ok, I'm going to go ahead and assume you've removed the battery. If you haven't, do so now.
If it still won't turn on, try actually holding the power button down for 30-60 seconds. I had a scary moment with my phone yesterday, rebooted it running Wicked v5 on Trinity and the screen just died. I've been running that rom for a week with just a couple of issues here and there, nothing out of the ordinary. Pulled the battery and tried again, nothing. After holding the power button down for a bit I felt a quick vibrate, then the boot logo came up. No idea why, I'm going to have to look into it.
Beyond that, I'm brand new to this phone and Sammy's Android devices so I'm still learning myself. HTC phones I could help out more with, but I'm still a bit clueless with this thing.
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Yes I have taken out the battery replaced it several times. I hit the volume home and power button several times. When I do that I get a zero response nothing shows up I hear no sound its as if the phone is just completely dead. One thing I did realise is when I plug it into the computer and press the power button what would happen is it would connect and automatically disconnect

Can you get into Download mode? Volume down + Home + Power button?
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Don't forget to let go of the power button when going into recovery.

Have you done what the other post said?
Hold power for about 10-30 seconds. Does it do anything? Do you feel a verrrry slight vibration?
When you plug it in without doing anything else does the computer see it in device manager? How about if you press power once? Or holding power down?
Does it register that its charging?
This may sound dumb but did you try powering up without the phone plugged into anything?
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DocHoliday77 said:
Have you done what the other post said?
Hold power for about 10-30 seconds. Does it do anything? Do you feel a verrrry slight vibration?
When you plug it in without doing anything else does the computer see it in device manager? How about if you press power once? Or holding power down?
Does it register that its charging?
This may sound dumb but did you try powering up without the phone plugged into anything?
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Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.

cyklosporine said:
I recently Rooted my sealed samsung galaxy s3 without having a clue what i'm doing i downloaded this program called snapdragon to root it along with ODIN. The phone rooted fine everything was working okay, I even downloaded an app to see if the root was successful and indeed it was. I shut the phone down wake up in the morning to turn it back on and I get zero response. Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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cyklosporine said:
Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.
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Ummm. Sorry but maybe im missing something? Your first sentence in your op says you didnt have a clue what you were doing....
And where is it supposed to infer that you've done everything already?
Imo you have been getting 'real' advice but from what I see you haven't 'really' answered anyones suggestions.
No one can help you if you dont tell us what exactly you have tried and what what happened when you did.
For example in your only response you mentioned hitting the volume and home keys a bunch of times....what exactly do you mean by this? Did you hold them while trying to power up? Volume up or down? Did you release any of them during that process, and if so which and when?
Its kinda hard to help someone who doesn't have a clue what they are doing and only responds that hes done everything common sense dictates.
I seriously mean no offence but to me common sense would dictate that you not try rooting or anything if you know you dont know what you're doing.
It would also dictate that if you want further help with this you should go back and respond to what everyone suggested.
Like I said, im not trying to offend, just help.
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I am having the same issue
I just tried flashing Android Revolution to my phone. I went through the whole set up process. Went to reboot then it went blank. Nothing. I get nothing when I plug it in. The computer doesn't recognize any device attached to it. I've tried all the ideas listed here and I get nothing. It's as if the phone is completely dead. When I flashed the rom my battery was at 90%. I've used various roms on different phones and this was the first time I did it to my Galaxy s3 and this is the first time it's ever happened. Talk about frustrating.

Jtag
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lokitsar said:
I just tried flashing Android Revolution to my phone. I went through the whole set up process. Went to reboot then it went blank. Nothing. I get nothing when I plug it in. The computer doesn't recognize any device attached to it. I've tried all the ideas listed here and I get nothing. It's as if the phone is completely dead. When I flashed the rom my battery was at 90%. I've used various roms on different phones and this was the first time I did it to my Galaxy s3 and this is the first time it's ever happened. Talk about frustrating.
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If you can get to download mode by holding vol up home power. You then you can use this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1771687
To get our phone back. I had the same problem after a bad flash. My phone wouldn't do anything. After I left it plugs in for an hour I was able to get into download mode ..hope you get urs back. If its what happened to me then u might find that you have no 4g anymore... If that's the case let me know and I'll tell u what I did to get it back.
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cyklosporine said:
Come on guys I respect the fact that everyone here is out here to help but read my post I have done every way common sense possible I actually need some real advice maybe how to reset factory setting with a device or maybe download a program.
Any help would be useful.
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Yeah, good luck getting ANY further help with that attitude bro!!!
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I got same problem with my friend's phone
He rooted it by some oneclick root pc program (I rooted this way too, and no problem will come) and flashes Rom with some android apk. ... After questioning him, I found out he DO NOT unlock bootloader.. .. I never seen phone in this status before... another strange thing is that when is phone in charger, battery and phone isn't heating up.. It's cold like ice... This is strange for me..I try 5 android devices and every is heating when it charging up.. (sorry for my bad English) Thank you and maybe someone comming with answers Phone doesn't react, no display brightness show up, no vibrating, no response

I have rooted my phone samsung galaxy grand 2 via odin after that flash the rom cm 11 and reboot my phone it got stuck into boot loop. Then i have done 1 stupidity again i push twrp file in that now m not able to go in recovery mode what should l i do now.

Wrong forum, look here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-grand-2
I don't know anything about the phone but you could try looking for the current ROM on the phone at sammobile.com and then re-flash it via Odin.

i unluged the device before dhe odin finished his job ( by mistakeee ) and now it doesnt turn on , charge , go to recovery/odin , hold down power button for 30-60-120 sec nth hapend, it has baterri 90-100 % . plss guys help me :'( i have an samsung galaxy s advance .

Phone keeps rebooting/vibrate pulsing

Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated

Its a sticky power button.
There has been plenty of threads about this. Search and ull find me and my suggestions on several of them.
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bzlik88 said:
Its a sticky power button.
There has been plenty of threads about this. Search and ull find me and my suggestions on several of them.
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Cant be because it does not restart in recovery mode or download mode. I actually did a full wipe system and it fixed the issue. But now i realize when i start downloading my banking app, pandora, and other apps it starts crashing again. I dont know what to do. I guess I cant use any apps on my galaxy s2... lol this is sooooo stupid

rayoubi said:
Cant be because it does not restart in recovery mode or download mode. I actually did a full wipe system and it fixed the issue. But now i realize when i start downloading my banking app, pandora, and other apps it starts crashing again. I dont know what to do. I guess I cant use any apps on my galaxy s2... lol this is sooooo stupid
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Hmmm interesting....
Would u mind going to a custom ROM? If not then I suggest u try slimstar 2.2 and see if everything works. I think its whatever ROM u downloaded....keep me posted
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rayoubi said:
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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i work reparing cellphones and t989 have 2 problems, one of them is power button problems and the other one is board problems.. that poblem come with most of gs2.. i mean isnt the first time i see it...

My t989 is having the same problem
xX_Psycho_PR_Xx said:
i work reparing cellphones and t989 have 2 problems, one of them is power button problems and the other one is board problems.. that poblem come with most of gs2.. i mean isnt the first time i see it...
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I took it to a repair shop, where I was told to send it to Samsung to do a heavy-duty root. The power button does need to be replaced because there is no spring when you push down on it. I have no idea if there's a root glitch. Has anyone sent their phone to Samsung? What happened? Are there alternatives?
Thank you!

chicamama said:
I took it to a repair shop, where I was told to send it to Samsung to do a heavy-duty root. The power button does need to be replaced because there is no spring when you push down on it. I have no idea if there's a root glitch. Has anyone sent their phone to Samsung? What happened? Are there alternatives?
Thank you!
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It was amazing, I had the same problem but all i did was open up the back up undoing all the tiny screws and then took a can on compressed air and sprayed out the power button and its been working for more than a month now with the problem completely gone! try that first before sending to sammy.

Ok I am in the same boat. My device does not boot up, it will get to Samsung logo and restart half the time and the other half just vibrates every 2 seconds. I removed the battery while plugged in and it still vibrates. I took it apart and blew the power button with compressed air and nothing. Here is the funny thing if I bang the hell out of it, it almost boots up. Is there something that I can do less than sending it to Sammy ? If not I will sell it on craigslist for parts.

saldebot said:
Ok I am in the same boat. My device does not boot up, it will get to Samsung logo and restart half the time and the other half just vibrates every 2 seconds. I removed the battery while plugged in and it still vibrates. I took it apart and blew the power button with compressed air and nothing. Here is the funny thing if I bang the hell out of it, it almost boots up. Is there something that I can do less than sending it to Sammy ? If not I will sell it on craigslist for parts.
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Same thing here. Only way to get it to power on is by hitting it, the harder the better it seems. After it turns on, touching the power button will make it go in to the restart loop 90% of the time. This sucks!
For me this started after I dropped my phone...with the case on and on carpet. I have also opened it up and sprayed with compressed air to no avail.

RogueCoyote said:
Same thing here. Only way to get it to power on is by hitting it, the harder the better it seems. After it turns on, touching the power button will make it go in to the restart loop 90% of the time. This sucks!
For me this started after I dropped my phone...with the case on and on carpet. I have also opened it up and sprayed with compressed air to no avail.
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Hi my problem is the same as I opened it and verify that the power button is fine (I think so) but still do not like someone comes up with a solution?????

Solution in my case !
rayoubi said:
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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Hi Folks,
I had the same problem, the problem started when I dropped my fone on carpeted floor, here are symptoms
Fone restarts on its own, start the boot, inbetween the boot starts again, then, keeps vibrating every two seconds, you have to pull the battery out to stop it,
As soon as you put the battery back in, it restarts, again getting stuck, and then vibrating every two secods,
Here is what i did
- Cursed Samsung for making a sh***y phone - Didnt work
- Smacked my phone with whatever I could fine - Didnt work
- Opened all the screws up, took apart phone, pulled out the power button module (pcb), noticed power button was loose,put some glue into it, dried it, put it back, & ITS BEEN WORKING SINCE THEN ! It was a hardware fault, its not software !
Just my two cents, it worked in my case, I cannot guarantee if it will in your case too, try at your own risk !!

jctusa7 said:
It was amazing, I had the same problem but all i did was open up the back up undoing all the tiny screws and then took a can on compressed air and sprayed out the power button and its been working for more than a month now with the problem completely gone! try that first before sending to sammy.
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Heh, I can't believe this... but it worked for me... powered on my air compressor, took logic board out, and Air Air Air in to the power button area, worked ! Thank you for this tip jctusa7

SAME
rayoubi said:
Okay I flashed stock ICS thru ODIN. did a factory restore in the stock recovery. Still no help. I even downgraded to gingerbread with odin and did a factory restore through stock recovery again. still the phone keeps RESTARTING OVER AND OVER AND OVER..... I dont know what to do. Whats going on??? any help would be much appreciated
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I need this fixed

Tyler Tigner said:
I need this fixed
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Watch this video, it's how I fixed mine a few months ago: youtube.com/watch?v=pqBgbN8NLjI

Malth said:
Watch this video, it's how I fixed mine a few months ago: youtube.com/watch?v=pqBgbN8NLjI
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Same issue with SGH-M919. I was rooted and the rom I tried to use wouldn't work because the kernel caused some issues so I figured I would go back to stock. The device wouldn't go into recovery mode, so I flashed the stock rom via Odin. After the ROM loaded, the phone reset and I saw the Samsung screen then it rebooted and so on each time. It's not the power button as it works, has the spring feel to it and the phone would come one by itself if it was broken. So what can I do or am I in trouble?
Also, the phone will vibrate every 2 seconds

djerick3 said:
Same issue with SGH-M919. I was rooted and the rom I tried to use wouldn't work because the kernel caused some issues so I figured I would go back to stock. The device wouldn't go into recovery mode, so I flashed the stock rom via Odin. After the ROM loaded, the phone reset and I saw the Samsung screen then it rebooted and so on each time. It's not the power button as it works, has the spring feel to it and the phone would come one by itself if it was broken. So what can I do or am I in trouble?
Also, the phone will vibrate every 2 seconds
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Sure, the power button will "work", but if it's constantly vibrating and rebooting, it's probably an issue with the power button. Do what it shows in the video I posted, and if you do it right it'll probably fix it. I gad to attempt it twice as it didn't fix it the first time, but it's been like 4 months and I haven't had an issue since.

Thank you but it was the kernel causing problems. Somehow, the new ROM messed up the partitions and subsequently required a full wipe including all data then I flashed the stock ROM back via Odin and it was fine. I rooted it again and flashed Bliss Pop 1.8 and I love that ROM. No issues at all. Thanks for the help. I'm slowly learning about ROMs and Linux etc.. I appreciate the help. Does anyone have any advice as to how I can learn more??? Where do I post to get past this 10 posts rule???
Eric
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Wow I just realized that post was from a week ago and that was for my girls S4. We got rid of it anyway. My response was regarding my Sprint LG G3 which I am slowly mastering.

Same thing here but here i have a Lenovo …idk what to do

[Q] Phone won't continue boot up

Hi all, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I'm not sure if the phone is hard bricked as it starts up after a battery pull but shuts down immediately after no matter what mode I try to boot up in. On a normal start up it gets to the splash screen then shuts off and is unresponsive without another battery pull which triggers an automatic reboot. Trying to boot into recovery never works as I never get to the 2nd splash screen before the phone shuts back down and going into download it shuts off as soon as I get andy on the screen. Also in addition when I connect it to my computer it's usually off since I can't start it up and my computer won't recognize it regardless even if I manage to get it to turn on when connected. Any ideas? I haven't flashed anything today and it was working fine, a random reboot in walmart and it was dying then it just died and nothing is working even swapping in the battery from the gfs s3. Help me pls if it helps I was on the tw s4 dream rom and kt 5-31 kernel and used team kernelizers mod build props and all. Help pls guys

Shels said:
Hi all, I'm really hoping someone can help me with this. I'm not sure if the phone is hard bricked as it starts up after a battery pull but shuts down immediately after no matter what mode I try to boot up in. On a normal start up it gets to the splash screen then shuts off and is unresponsive without another battery pull which triggers an automatic reboot. Trying to boot into recovery never works as I never get to the 2nd splash screen before the phone shuts back down and going into download it shuts off as soon as I get andy on the screen. Also in addition when I connect it to my computer it's usually off since I can't start it up and my computer won't recognize it regardless even if I manage to get it to turn on when connected. Any ideas? I haven't flashed anything today and it was working fine, a random reboot in walmart and it was dying then it just died and nothing is working even swapping in the battery from the gfs s3. Help me pls if it helps I was on the tw s4 dream rom and kt 5-31 kernel and used team kernelizers mod build props and all. Help pls guys
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Hey man,
Not hard bricked.
Did you try to over clock your device? Did you mess with the kernel settings at all?
When you place the battery in your device does it automatically turn on or do you still have to hold down the power button?
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ryankgrant said:
Hey man,
Not hard bricked.
Did you try to over clock your device? Did you mess with the kernel settings at all?
When you place the battery in your device does it automatically turn on or do you still have to hold down the power button?
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Thank you god tell me you know how to fix it too lol.
Yea I have I use KT's kernel and use presets from team kernelizers, personally I think I know what the issue is I just didn't want to go around tossing blame. I don't think my phone likes the build prop mods included in there tk mod package. It started acting funny after I flashed them, but I figured the phone would settle down after a few cycles. I was actually about to revert them once the phone booted but it never happened. Sorry for long winding it and it turns on autmoatically. Nothing happens when I press the power button, it also shuts off within 2-3 seconds regardless of what mode I try to boot into. Pls help me if you can, I'm hoping I can fix this in the comfort of my home and not take it out for jtag repair.

Shels said:
Thank you god tell me you know how to fix it too lol.
Yea I have I use KT's kernel and use presets from team kernelizers, personally I think I know what the issue is I just didn't want to go around tossing blame. I don't think my phone likes the build prop mods included in there tk mod package. It started acting funny after I flashed them, but I figured the phone would settle down after a few cycles. I was actually about to revert them once the phone booted but it never happened. Sorry for long winding it and it turns on autmoatically. Nothing happens when I press the power button, it also shuts off within 2-3 seconds regardless of what mode I try to boot into. Pls help me if you can, I'm hoping I can fix this in the comfort of my home and not take it out for jtag repair.
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I've had problems where I've tried to over clock my device and its sent me into a crazy boot loop but I was able to get into the device in between boots and change it back to stock(which obviously you Dont have the luxury of doing) so I'm kind of at a loss. If you put your battery in and the phone automatically boots without you pressing the power button then that might be your cause for the rapid reboots. I suggest you look into getting the power button repaired if that's the case. Or do it yourself. Shouldn't be too expensive. Hopefully someone in the community. Can shed some light on this matter better than I but from where I'm standing that seems to be your only option. I'm sorry I Dont have have a fix for you. Goodluck
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I've had problems where I've tried to over clock my device and its sent me into a crazy boot loop but I was able to get into the device in between boots and change it back to stock(which obviously you Dont have the luxury of doing) so I'm kind of at a loss. If you put your battery in and the phone automatically boots without you pressing the power button then that might be your cause for the rapid reboots. I suggest you look into getting the power button repaired if that's the case. Or do it yourself. Shouldn't be too expensive. Hopefully someone in the community. Can shed some light on this matter better than I but from where I'm standing that seems to be your only option. I'm sorry I Dont have have a fix for you. Goodluck
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It's funny, nothing would work. I went up to the cottage for a week came back down started messing with it and I managed to get it to freeze on the splash screen, my computer would recognize it though so it was a start. I then connected it to the pc and tried to flash stock through odin(obviously wouldn't work because the phone wasn't in download mode) so I tried to boot into dl mode it took a couple tries but it finally stuck. I was then able to flash stock and it's been fine ever since. I just rooted it and installed twrp. I want to flash a rom but the links for the roms I want is down so I'll wait or flash an old version of the rom I got on my sd. Thanks for the response and I'm just glad I got it to work and didn't have to pay the $50 for jtag repair which is what I was about to do lol.

Shels said:
It's funny, nothing would work. I went up to the cottage for a week came back down started messing with it and I managed to get it to freeze on the splash screen, my computer would recognize it though so it was a start. I then connected it to the pc and tried to flash stock through odin(obviously wouldn't work because the phone wasn't in download mode) so I tried to boot into dl mode it took a couple tries but it finally stuck. I was then able to flash stock and it's been fine ever since. I just rooted it and installed twrp. I want to flash a rom but the links for the roms I want is down so I'll wait or flash an old version of the rom I got on my sd. Thanks for the response and I'm just glad I got it to work and didn't have to pay the $50 for jtag repair which is what I was about to do lol.
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Dude!!, so glad you got it to get working again and no need to thank me just click that thanks button hahah. Cheers :beer:
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