Tragically my Note 2 (N7100) has failed me yesterday. I was on my way home with very little battery, with my phone in my pocket. When i plugged it in i noticed it had died and came up with the battery symbol. I tried powering it on with no success and it hasn't worked since. I have tried different cables, USB charging etc. The computer doesn't detect it when plugged in, I can't go into recovery or download mode and all I get is the red sensor light flashing faintly every few seconds when I press and hold the power button.
I've been doing some reading in the past 6 hours and it points to SDS but most people could get in recovery and all. Is this my case? Can I check the emmc version by opening the phone (never had warranty because I was foolish enough to buy this from someone).
I have flashed countless ROMs, never had a problem, never bricked, always fixed any quirks I had but this is a bit beyond me. I was on Omnirom 4.4.2...
DieZz said:
Tragically my Note 2 (N7100) has failed me yesterday. I was on my way home with very little battery, with my phone in my pocket. When i plugged it in i noticed it had died and came up with the battery symbol. I tried powering it on with no success and it hasn't worked since. I have tried different cables, USB charging etc. The computer doesn't detect it when plugged in, I can't go into recovery or download mode and all I get is the red sensor light flashing faintly every few seconds when I press and hold the power button.
I've been doing some reading in the past 6 hours and it points to SDS but most people could get in recovery and all. Is this my case? Can I check the emmc version by opening the phone (never had warranty because I was foolish enough to buy this from someone).
I have flashed countless ROMs, never had a problem, never bricked, always fixed any quirks I had but this is a bit beyond me. I was on Omnirom 4.4.2...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
IF u cant go to download, recovery mode, and ge the red sensors light flashing, i think its 99% SDS problem.
U should go to the nearest Samsung Centre to confirm and fix it actually
Related
I have a rooted HTC evo 4g. I rooted it about 2 months ago and have had no problems.
I woke up this morning, and it is bricked. I have not recently flashed anything or done anything beyond regular phone use.
i cannot enter download mode, and the "charging" led does not come on.
Any suggestions?
What does your phone do when you press the power button?
Have you removed the battery and inspected for indications of damage such as discoloration or bulges?
Have you tried connecting a different USB cable that is known to be working?
Have you visually inspected the USB connector for loose/damaged conductors?
BobWalker said:
What does your phone do when you press the power button?
Have you removed the battery and inspected for indications of damage such as discoloration or bulges?
Have you tried connecting a different USB cable that is known to be working?
Have you visually inspected the USB connector for loose/damaged conductors?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
the power button does nothing.
The usb cable and wall adapter works on my kindle, and i tried an additional one with no results.
The battery appears normal, however my next planned step is to try and get a replacement battery and see if that works.
Try taking battery out and then plug usb cable in only and try to turn on...
angryITman said:
Try taking battery out and then plug usb cable in only and try to turn on...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
no dice.
also wondering about the cause... 2 potential things:
- I've noticed that the phone gets very hot. 40+ degrees even when not running much. Is this within normal tolerance or could i be looking at heat damage.
- I've been getting the pop-up asking me to do some sort of OTA update. I keep saying no, because i know these ota updates can be incompatible with rooted phones. Could it have pushed through somehow and if it did could it cause the problem i am experiencing?
phone is fixed.
A read on the sprint forum that sometimes holding down the power for an extended time can get the phone to be responsive... had to hold it for like 90 seconds. It then flashed the white evo boot screen and powered back down almost immediately.
After this, however, the orange charging light came on and i was able to get to boot loader. I let the phone charge for a while, then it boot up as normal.
One of the things i noticed is that the battery is practically completely drained... this is odd as it was plugged into the charger when it died. On the same sprint forum, others have speculated that sometimes the battery can drain to the point where it wont accept a charge anymore... so maybe thats the issue.
Here's what happened. My phone (running Slimbean 4.3) was plugged into my computer and I was going to drag and drop some music into it when the computer froze and then disconnected the phone. Phone also went black and now can't power on. No boot screen, and can't even get into download or recovery mode. Tried to use a different battery, doesn't work. Connecting it to the computer it, the computer makes a quick 3 note sound as if you disconnected something from a USB port. I think this is good bye for my almost 2 and a half year old Hercules?
wikitiki said:
Here's what happened. My phone (running Slimbean 4.3) was plugged into my computer and I was going to drag and drop some music into it when the computer froze and then disconnected the phone. Phone also went black and now can't power on. No boot screen, and can't even get into download or recovery mode. Tried to use a different battery, doesn't work. Connecting it to the computer it, the computer makes a quick 3 note sound as if you disconnected something from a USB port. I think this is good bye for my almost 2 and a half year old Hercules?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Slim was one of the first ROMs I tried when I got this phone, and as with a few others, if it RRs it can take several miuntes to reboot. Even after a battery pull. See if you can get into recovery by holding the power button down, then the power up and power down button all three at the same time. In fact try two or three times until you make it. If the phone is vibrating while you are trying your phone is not dead at all. In that case wait for the phone to boot and give it about 10 minutes tops. If nothing is happening, no vibration, no logo, no nothing, yeah you're done.
ArtfulDodger said:
Slim was one of the first ROMs I tried when I got this phone, and as with a few others, if it RRs it can take several miuntes to reboot. Even after a battery pull. See if you can get into recovery by holding the power button down, then the power up and power down button all three at the same time. In fact try two or three times until you make it. If the phone is vibrating while you are trying your phone is not dead at all. In that case wait for the phone to boot and give it about 10 minutes tops. If nothing is happening, no vibration, no logo, no nothing, yeah you're done.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I'm used to the reboots with vibrations. But this time there's none of that. The only signs of life are from the sound disconnecting when i plug it into my computer or from the stock charging adapter (high frequency sound when uncharged). Oh well. RIP Hercules, my first Android smartphone.
wikitiki said:
Yeah I'm used to the reboots with vibrations. But this time there's none of that. The only signs of life are from the sound disconnecting when i plug it into my computer or from the stock charging adapter (high frequency sound when uncharged). Oh well. RIP Hercules, my first Android smartphone.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, the good news is you can move on to something better. Lots of great options out there right now.
I've had the situation like that before. ODIN could pick up a port sometimes from feels like a dead phone. Try flush a stock ROM with this open port.It will fail because this is a media port. However it would installed smth which let the phone get in download mode after pulling out/reinserting the battery. No guaranty but might help.
Try Odin as said. If not....new phone.
Sent from my N5, N7, Moto X, G Tab 3 or S2.....
I think this is due to power button broken
Hi all,
so yesterday my note 2 died not sure if its sudden death as I never did the MMC check thingy and when I try to power up I dont even get a red light flashing or anything.
Its a N7105 Telstra phone but was flashed with nordic 4.4. I woke up yesterday morning to see the LED was flashing to indicate new email. However phone wouldnt wake up no response.
Hard shut down by holding down power button until device powered off after that no power on, tried removing battery, booting into recovery / download mode, plugging to PC with USB, trying a different battery.. Nothing
So phone is 18 months and out of warranty do you think I should return to Samsung was thinking they wont fix it even if it is SDS because its not on the telstra rom (although still Samsung official)
Advice please I was just contemplating taking it to a local phone shop to have motherboard replaced I guess thought it should be cheaper and quicker than sending back to Sammy / Telstra?
Cheers
Hello everyone,
Thanks for always helping in times of trouble.
I was using my HTC one m8 normally, playing with facebook. The battery was on 82%. Suddenly the screen frooze then the whole phone went dead completely. Not even a screen backlight. I tried to power it up. It didn't work. It had original ROM, with no modifications whatsoever.
Here is what I did so far, without any results.
- Charge it for few days with original charger and cable directly from the wall. No sign of life. No charging flashing light.
- Charge it with another cable. Nothing.
- Tried to access the boot menu to wipe everything clean. Pressed power+volume down. Nothing. Dead Screen.
- Pressed power +volume up. Nothing. Dead Screen.
Pressed power + both volume buttons. Nothing. Dead Screen.
- Connect it to the computer with updated HTC Suite. The computer said no phone connected.
I using a crappy old iphone now, but would love to get this HTC back to life. Any past experience with similar situation?
Any tips to resuscitate the dead phone?
Thanks a lot for your help.
In some "stuck" or powered off conditions, you may need to hold the button combos for a minute or so, before it actually reboots. So make sure you are holding them long enough.
But the fact there isn't even a charge LED, is concerning. Even in brick conditions, you should get at least an orange/red LED (maybe blinking? Can't remember). Makes me think the battery is bad.
Also play around with the button combos with the charger connected. I've seen a couple folks have luck with this, when nothing else seemed to work.
Additionally, the phone won't connect to PC when powered down; even on a working phone. You at least need to get to a bootloader screen to connect to a PC in any way.
redpoint73 said:
In some "stuck" or powered off conditions, you may need to hold the button combos for a minute or so, before it actually reboots. So make sure you are holding them long enough.
But the fact there isn't even a charge LED, is concerning. Even in brick conditions, you should get at least an orange/red LED (maybe blinking? Can't remember). Makes me think the battery is bad.
Also play around with the button combos with the charger connected. I've seen a couple folks have luck with this, when nothing else seemed to work.
Additionally, the phone won't connect to PC when powered down; even on a working phone. You at least need to get to a bootloader screen to connect to a PC in any way.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks a lot for your reply.
I tried to do as instructed but it didn't work. I held the buttons on different combinations for at least two minutes but the phone stayed dead.
The only changed I noticed is one point I saw a very weak charging flash then it quickly disappeared and never came up again even when I repeated the process. Does this say anything?
LostMan1991 said:
The only changed I noticed is one point I saw a very weak charging flash then it quickly disappeared and never came up again even when I repeated the process. Does this say anything?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hard to know if this means anything specific. The symptoms don't look good. Might be bad battery, or other hardware failure.
Rooted and ran https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947875 as a custom rom forever ago. Worked flawlessly no issues.
While trying to recover some old photos/messages from the phone. I had a couple random restarts due to macgyvering a different samsung battery at a close to 3.7Volts as the replacement battery I got forever ago was bloated and inop. I was able to salvage somethings but not everything before I decided to get stop getting frustrated and struggling and purchase a new correct OEM battery. After being unable to charge the battery either through the phone (had the dim blinking blue led) or external charger. Froze the replacement battery put it on my external charger and got it juiced up. When it was charged I threw it in the phone and got a black screen and solid blue LED while charging or trying to boot. I can get the led to flash by holding power and vol down, but then it just stays blue.
Power + Vol Down gets me nowhere, Power + Vol Up & Down same deal. So I bought a micro USB jig. Still nothing.
Tried ODIN3 v1.85, 3.13.1, Samsung Kies, some other Odin 1 touch. Can't get the phone to connect to pc or post a screen to recovery. Using Samsung USB Driver Version 1.5.65.0
So im trying to preserve the data that is hopefully remaining that I want, and get the device to boot.
I can only assume based on searching the forum, that my phone is hard bricked and potentially the only option to recover anything from it at this point is a JTAG. Or I'm SOL.