So last night my fiance's phone started to constantly turn itself on and off, i factory reset it it has been dropped but she bought it cracked. its not water damaged and its not a lose connection because me being an IT i took it apart, her S3 Now suffers a black screen. im thinking because the phone did something in the middle of the factory reset maybe the Firmware got corrupt? or something.. it will go into DL mode with HUGE difficulty.
then the download mode goes black. havent plugged into my pc yet havent had time
any ideas? i looked over some of the other threads. None seemed relevant.
Close thread. phones mainboard died.. nevermind.
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Hi everybody. To start off, I guess I'll give the specs of my phone..
It is (obviously) a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. I purchased it through a local carrier in Iowa (iWireless), and I am pretty sure it's a GSM model. I'm running JRO03C, JellyBean 4.1.1 through this ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1738197. I have my phone rooted and the bootloader unlocked.
Now to get to the problem at hand.
Yesterday, I purchased a screen protector for my phone (one of those invisibleShields from ZAGG) and applied it when I got home. After finishing applying it (which required me to turn my phone off) I had trouble starting up my phone. The power button did not seem to be responding well. I eventually got it on, and the screen would no longer lock on command. Luckily, I have this mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739467 so I can use the volume rocker to wake it or the lock button from the notification bar.
Even so, I have no way to turn my phone back on.
So, I decided I would take my phone in and see if I can get it replaced. First of course, I wanted to make sure everything was stock. So I try to flash the stock image of 4.0.4. In the process, the Galaxy Nexus toolkit stopped and would just hang, saying [waiting for device]. So I stupidly shut my phone off, forgetting I will have trouble booting into Fastboot. Now my phone is off, and I have spent the past half hour trying to turn it on just so I can flash the stock image and lock the bootloader.
I don't want the manufacturer to decide I voided my warranty, and now I'm unable to get my phone replaced. That would be terrible, this phone costs $700 dollars through my carrier! (I got it for free through some sweet deals last month. Part of it included a mail-in rebate, so I had to send in the UPC code on the back of my phone's box; does that mean I all ready voided my warranty?)
Can anyone help me? I need to turn my phone back on, or at least be able to restore everything to stock. Holding the power button on and off constantly doesn't seem to be getting me anywhere.
Thanks!
First of all, you should have left the phone off with the battery out for a few hours so the liquid can clear up inside. leave it overnight and if youre lucky it might be working fine the next morning
Well, the problem is that I didn't immediately realize that I/we (my friend who had apparently applied dozens of screen protectors in the past) had caused water damage to my phone because once we got it working, it continued to work. So, we left and went about the rest of the evening, (It had stopped working on the drive out of town, at which point we removed the battery and tried to let it dry out in the hot car as we drove) watched a movie... It worked fine... But then. Yeah, over night it stopped working.
I just hope it works tomorrow I guess.
If the phone battery is charged, is there any way I can adb shell into it while it's connected to my computer, or does it have to be completely powered on?
Sorry if this question's been answered in another thread, I tried searching and couldn't find any question that exactly matched mine, or any response that solved the issue.
I purchased a used, unlocked Galaxy Nexus from ebay around a month or two ago, in near perfect condition -- this has been the first time I've had any problems with it. It's probably not applicable, but after the release of the dev preview for Ubuntu phone OS I rooted the phone and reinstalled the factory image "takju 4.2.2 (JDQ39)".
Anyway, a few hours ago I accidentally bumped my phone off of a counter in the kitchen onto the tile floor. I picked it up and looked it over, and noticed no visible damage whatsoever, although the plastic cover had been partially dislodged; however, the phone's screen was dark, and the phone was unresponsive. I took out the battery and replaced it, then held down the power button. The phone vibrated once, like it normally did when booting up, but the screen remained black and the phone unresponsive unless I removed and reinserted the cover again.
I've tried charging it, plugging it into my pc, removing both the battery pack and the SD card, taking the battery out and rebooting it while holding both power buttons down, but I still get no response (and my computer doesn't recognize the phone when I plug it in). After reading a post where someone had success reconnecting the display, I unscrewed and removed the casing, then disconnected and reconnected the display from the motherboard -- still nothing.
Is there anything else I can do, or is my phone beyond repair?
Did you check the other connections while you had the phone apart?
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Did you check the other connections while you had the phone apart?
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I opened it up again and took pictures, but I'm not very knowledgeable about this sort of thing, so I can't tell if anything's wrong or not. Should I remove the motherboard to get a better look at the display?
You're talking about the back cover which became dislodged upon impact? I'd say you're lucky that the phone still gives that vibrate. But it seems there are so many things that could go wrong from an impact. Do you have fastboot? [I know you said you tried holding down both volume buttons and power, but try pressing them first then tapping power.] If you don't have fastboot, then your only options would be omapflash and odin. If these do not work, it's gonna be hardware. Maybe the display is gone, if you get the vibrate but see nothing..
Ok so prior to getting the AT&T s3 i747 I had a s2 i727 and on two occasions I cracked the screen and/or LCD and just purchased a broken s2 (water damage..etc) off ebay and then put my motherboard in a new shell basically. I’m attempting to do that now with the s3. The seller on ebay said he was told it was an issue with the motherboard but the screen and lcd were good. I tested it when it first got here and it would not turn on at all. Now that I have switched the motherboards around it will turn on. It goes through the logo screens and starts up fine EXCEPT the screen continually flashes and after a few minutes will restart itself. I messed with the power button but I don’t think that is the problem. When I turn it off and charge it with my battery it does exactly what it should but when I do the same with the battery that was sent with it the battery display flashes on off on off and it pretty much won’t keep the charger connection going. Every time I google it or read a forum its ppl who can’t get past the Samsung screen and I’m having no luck getting answers. So if anyone knows whether this is a screen/lcd/digitizer issue or something internal please help me so I can return the phone before it’s too late! Thanks
Oh and I can boot into download mode but not into recovery mode and I have already reflashed using odin which seemed to be successful..it said pass
I recently had a buddy get a screen replace from a place in the mall. The phone display and everything works, but one problem after all of that. It will not stay on and keeps bootlooping ect.... I did a factory reset and still no luck another weird thing is, when it is plugged in the battery will go from 80% down to barely nothing then quickly charges back up. The phone somewhat seems to stay on when it is plugged in. The phone started having these problems when the screen was replaced. Im confused. please help! Thanks!
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I recently had a buddy get a screen replace from a place in the mall. The phone display and everything works, but one problem after all of that. It will not stay on and keeps bootlooping ect.... I did a factory reset and still no luck another weird thing is, when it is plugged in the battery will go from 80% down to barely nothing then quickly charges back up. The phone somewhat seems to stay on when it is plugged in. The phone started having these problems when the screen was replaced. Im confused. please help! Thanks!
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First thing first do a hard factory reset with the volume down and power button, not work then flash with lg flash tool the model numbers kdz all downloads and guides are posted. let it fully boot power down then fully charge, power up and down several times so the data files understand the new digitizer and resets all problems. Still dont work find screen replacement video via youtube once there whatch how to disassemble cause I am pretty sure it is one of the data cables or connections that is loose but you can never know with software and those are easier to do and less chance of permanent damage.
Or you can mail it to me and I fix her right up lol
Hello, my galaxy s3 died one day last year and I haven't been able to resurrect it since..inserting battery results in a vibration, samsung logo, then it dies until I pull the battery again. Today I had the sudden urge to try fixing it and got different results than I had previously. I cleaned a bunch of lint from the charging port and am now able to get a short red light flash when the phone is plugged in, followed by a vibration, then the battery charging logo, then death once again. Randomly I'll get the cyanogenmod bootup screen when repeating this cycle but for no longer than a second or two before the phone dies again. I've disassembled the phone and cleaned as much dust and crap as possible to no avail. Any recommendations? Could the power button be frozen? My samsung infuse had a stuck power button and would boot loop but my S3 doesn't seem to be boot looping. Just turning on then dying until I fiddle with the power button again.
I want to rule out sudden death...
I had a sudden death on a note 2.
Download a good compatible (with your baseband) ROM.
Fool with the phone. Like really. Keep trying to turn it on, try recovery mode. I fixed one of these. It wasn't quite the same but I still have it. And it works. If the screen wasn't cracked to hell I'd be on it.
Another option may be trying a debrick image on an external sdcard. You should use one based on the same modem and baseband installed on the phone when it last worked.