My phone had strange battery behavior throughout the day yesterday. It discharged much quicker than usual. I charged it to 50%before bed and left it off the charger overnight.
This morning i woke up to a black screen, and a phone that won't charge. I tried a few different cords, outlets and other sources of power.
Anything i can try to fix this? I ordered a replacement, is there anything i can do to hide my s-off? I'm afraid I'm going to get charged for my replacement because I'm s-offed with a custom rom.
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ddurandSGS3 said:
My phone had strange battery behavior throughout the day yesterday. It discharged much quicker than usual. I charged it to 50%before bed and left it off the charger overnight.
This morning i woke up to a black screen, and a phone that won't charge. I tried a few different cords, outlets and other sources of power.
Anything i can try to fix this? I ordered a replacement, is there anything i can do to hide my s-off? I'm afraid I'm going to get charged for my replacement because I'm s-offed with a custom rom.
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What ROM and any custom recovery?
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What ROM and any custom recovery?
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Slimrom.
Cwm touch (6.0.4.5 maybe?)
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ddurandSGS3 said:
Slimrom.
Cwm touch (6.0.4.5 maybe?)
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This sounds like a familiar problem with TWRP recoveries.... It sounds like you had an old version of CWM that may be broken with off mode charging.... Unfortunately your only chance may be to leave the phone on the charger for a day and see if it goes far enough tht you can get the phone to boot.
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This sounds like a familiar problem with TWRP recoveries.... It sounds like you had an old version of CWM that may be broken with off mode charging.... Unfortunately your only chance may be to leave the phone on the charger for a day and see if it goes far enough tht you can get the phone to boot.
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Maybe. I've definitely read about that.
So i I'm probably ok to return it? Should I do anything to it?
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ddurandSGS3 said:
Maybe. I've definitely read about that.
So i I'm probably ok to return it? Should I do anything to it?
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This happened to me with TWRP. Let it charge and hold the power button for a minute or two. If that doesn't work, try power + vol down. I was able to get mine to boot up eventually. Good luck!
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ddurandSGS3 said:
Maybe. I've definitely read about that.
So i I'm probably ok to return it? Should I do anything to it?
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Maybe. It depends how deep verizon looks into why the phone is behaving how it is.
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Maybe. It depends how deep verizon looks into why the phone is behaving how it is.
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If it can't boot, they can't look at all.
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If it can't boot, they can't look at all.
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Again it depends how much effort they put in. When they send the phone to a factory for refurbishing all it needs is a charge and they will see Unlocked/S-OFF
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Again it depends how much effort they put in. When they send the phone to a factory for refurbishing all it needs is a charge and they will see Unlocked/S-OFF
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And he'd already have a replacement by then. If it takes a charge, it will probably boot. But without it booting up, pretty sure they can't see anything.
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All they would have to do is put a new battery in it and turn it on, and then see its s-off. Which is what they WILL do in order to resell it as a refurb.
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And he'd already have a replacement by then. If it takes a charge, it will probably boot. But without it booting up, pretty sure they can't see anything.
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If you go through the carrier they can back charge your bill for voiding your warranty (exception being if this is an accidental damage exchange, in which case he will be charged a deductible). If he went through HTC he wont have a replacement by then unless he puts a deposit down on an advanced replacement, which he most likely wont get back when they see S-OFF/Unlocked.
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All they would have to do is put a new battery in it and turn it on, and then see its s-off. Which is what they WILL do in order to resell it as a refurb.
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Thank you for understanding how the replacement process works.
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If you go through the carrier they can back charge your bill for voiding your warranty (exception being if this is an accidental damage exchange, in which case he will be charged a deductible). If he went through HTC he wont have a replacement by then unless he puts a deposit down on an advanced replacement, which he most likely wont get back when they see S-OFF/Unlocked.
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Thank you for understanding how the replacement process works.
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If Verizon back charged for issues like this, there would be more than a dozen threads warning of it. Do a search. Many people have had phones unable to boot and have successfully gotten warranty replacements. Not a single one has yet to be back charged (or there would be a thread). If his phone boots he won't have to worry about it because there's no point in sending it in. If he sends it to HTC and they are able to get it to boot to see it is unlocked (S-off alone does not break warranty) they will notify him before any charges and send the phone back. At this point he will know the phone is able to boot up. Problem solved.
Edit: probably came off like a ****...not my intention at all. It's a community here and we're all just trying to help each other out.
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So I'm at the mercy of the person that receives the phone?
Got a bad feeling I'm gonna get charged some ridiculous amount of money
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ddurandSGS3 said:
So I'm at the mercy of the person that receives the phone?
Got a bad feeling I'm gonna get charged some ridiculous amount of money
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So you weren't ever able to get it to boot by doing anything? There's been plenty of people on here who have gotten a replacement from Verizon because they've bricked their phone. I'm pretty positive you'll be fine. There would be threads on here already if Verizon was back charging.
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So you weren't ever able to get it to boot by doing anything? There's been plenty of people on here who have gotten a replacement from Verizon because they've bricked their phone. I'm pretty positive you'll be fine. There would be threads on here already if Verizon was back charging.
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Nope. Left it on the charger for 12+ hrs. Held the power button down for 5+ minutes, held power and vol buttons the same time length.
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ddurandSGS3 said:
Nope. Left it on the charger for 12+ hrs. Held the power button down for 5+ minutes, held power and vol buttons the same time length.
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Sounds weird but people have mentioned trying the power button and or power + vol down under a bright light. Something to do with the light sensor. Worth a shot at least.
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Hi guys, recently lots of S3 owners encouter this scary issue that their S3's motherboards just failed randomly and the phones are dead.Here is the link to the thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044
However, after reading pages, I noticed most cases are in the UK, some in other europe countries, some in asia (india, south east asia). Not sure the US version (and Tmo version specificly) is suffering from this, so I made this thread to gather information about this. I know I am paranoid, but I was hoping my S3 would last at least 2 years til my next upgrade. And now Im living in fear after knowing that thread. My S3 (manufacture date is 06/27/12) is still performing very fine with zero issue since august except the SD card being removed unexpectedly 2 times by the phone itself.
(btw, you can check your manufature date by dial this code: *#12580*369# )
Edit: seems like only international version suffers from this issue.
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Thank you. you all need to get it.
elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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elracing21 said:
This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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my phone comes with 1 year warranty. But I hate having a phone already opened up for repair.
Anyway, there is 1 case with Tmo US version....
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This is why we all pay for warranty right?
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Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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diazf09 said:
Warranty or not. Motherboards shouldn't fail on its own.its a recall. manufacturer should be held responsible without warranty.
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Exactly. These phones are too damn expensive for them to keep sticking us consumers on the crap end of the stick when they screw up.
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as much as i hate to say this but if this does happen to mine, this will be the last time I buy from Samsung and might jump ship to Apple where I can take a phone in a get it fixed in time.
Im pretty happy with Samsung, I deal with warranty on a day to day basis in another way but there is an expected amount of devices that go out that a company knows is going to fail at some point and also rely on returns for warranted devices to see what went wrong in production in order to correct it.
The problem is you have "X" amount of people on the forum which is big in consideration to a regular site and "Y" with the same problem and people group in and make the issue bigger than it is. Any company that posts a recall is at the point that OVER 42% of the product with the same failure over the release.
With that said I haven't had one problem with mine that others have reported and after being let down by HTC time and time again I most definitely will buy another Samsung device, so far it's been the best I've had out of the collection of smartphones I have.
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I'm a Samsung convert
No one else has the cyanogen and miui teams working for them
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Well warranty doesn't matter when your phone is rooted right?
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Well that's what Odin is for. If you Odin to stock it doesn't take away your warranty.
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it doesnt matter if youre rooted for hardware failure, they still have to warranty it
Its reasons like these I'm always so fearful to remove my warranty subscription. Oh, and because of all my phone hax0ring
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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ferlogan said:
Have the same prolem my phones sometimes turns off by self I have warranty but still hateto go back to store
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You dont have to go to the store, call T-Mobile and they will send you one with an RMA, as soon as you get it put the old one in the box and send it out. All they do is check for water damage and put it up for refurbish they don't waste time putting it through testing they test the devices that may have account info on it if you can't power it up to format it before sending it back. They ask you that on the phone.
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So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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jay4mont78 said:
So does this mean that none of the tmo peeps have had no issues with their devices dying? I only ask because, I just got my galaxy last Wednesday. Had a couple quirks, but nothing's dead yet. Had a little issue with my music and swipe. When I would get my notifications tones say from email I would be listening to music, the sound would nearly drown out and stay that way till I paused my music and started again all was fine. I've been getting random screen flashes near the bottom of the screen, like a ton of lines like a glitch. Anyone else having this issue as well? Feel free to add anything else if you like.
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Sounds to me like you might have activated something in developers options, go in settings and see if you selected anything that would flash the screen if long processes are in use.
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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jay4mont78 said:
Nothing in dev out of the usual, only thing being ticked is the usb debugging, and turned up the animation scales, transitions etc to .05, animations were at 1, but I was using swype, only happens when using that. Any better keyboards I can download on the market better than the Samsung or swype?
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Nvm found the gingerbread keyboard on the market, thanks for the tip.
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Did you enable any traces? That would show depending on what you have checked. I was gonna try enabling a few to see what it does but it's not like it would ruin anything. I'll report back though to see if I can recreate it.
Edit nope that did nothing, hope you figure it out, I never had that happen before.
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havent heard anyone yet seem the us version are better than other version in the world
Since December I've been running CM10 on my GS-III with little to no issues. I flash CM 10.1 mid January and even though it was an unstable nightly it was very stable.
Flashing the nightlies as they became available with no issues at all.
Then today my phone starts slowing down and froze up.
Keep in mind that I hadn't flashed a nightly in like a day or 2 do I had been using the past nightly as a daily driver.
When my phone decided to freeze I rebooted it and it booted just fine.
About 2 minutes in the screen goes black. Holding the power button it's unresponsive.
Now my phone is completely unresponsive to all button presses. I've tried the 3 button combos for recovery and download mode with no luck. I've even held the buttons for a full minute but nothing is working.
Is my phone dead or is there a possibility of resurrecting it?
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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Are you positive the battery hasn't died. That would be the first thing I would check. Even if it showed it was charging doesn't mean the battery is good. I'm not trying to be insulting either by asking this. I'm a equipment tech at a large semiconductor company and you wouldn't believe the number of times the fix was as simple as turning a breaker back on when another tech wanted to replace something major. #1 rule of troubleshooting: Is there power. #2 rule: Double check rule #1. Sounds silly, but it is the easiest thing to overlook. Good luck and I hope it's as simple as a battery.
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No you're not insulting by asking that. I use to record music and when something wasn't wasn't working that's the first thing we asked and re asked.
Unfortunately I do believe I checked that out. When I plug in a charger it doesn't even show me a battery charging logo.
I have noticed that when I pull out the battery and connect the charger the led turns red.
I'll see if i can't swap batteries with one of my friends and see if that helps.
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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Can adb on your pc detect your phone by any chance ? I do not want to scare you but hopefully your not having a motherboard failure or a sudden death :/
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I'm checking that right now
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Well unfortunately there's no response from adb or phone.
However the computer does make a usb device connected sound.
Not sure if that's just a standard sound from the computer or if the phone is triggering it.
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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Android_Monsters said:
Did you do the three button combos for the T-Mobile version? They are different from the other s3s. Zedomax's root video shows them, well
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This.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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I have tried the 3 button combos for T-Mobiles variant of the GS-III with no luck either.... I even tried making a jig and didn't have much luck....
Next step is to buy a jig and see if that works
Thankfully I got a replacement GS-III from insurance. So I'm content... Also since I get to keep the other GS-III as well it feels even nicer.
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A usb jig should do it most of the time it do work and if it doesn't oh well you could sell it out for parts i guess ?
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You would probably make most of your back if you sold it for spare parts and may only have to pay $50 for a replacement. Good luck!
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I'm not sure I understand how a jig is going to help him when the phone won't turn on.
I would try another battery first. You said you were going to try this but I don't see where you confirmed that it wasn't the issue.
Hmm you could have ran into that now infamous mb crash and burn error although I'm not sure how since you were running aosp. Anyone else want to chime in?
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If the battery truly died plugging it in won't be any help
Try another battery, I'm betting that's the issue. T-Mobile will have one or two on hand in store so you can try
Hopefully I will be able to get my hands on a spare battery to test this with as soon as I'm off work.
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Yeah first of lets make sure its not the battery and the jig forces the phone to boot into download mode if im not mistaken.. It is intended for users having similar issues / unresponsive devices...
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Well unfortunately the spare battery i used on my phone was no good in getting the phone to respond.
Now my next step is to attempt to hope that the jig will do something for my phone.
If not i guess that i will have a nice paper weight of luxury lol
Either that or i can sell it to someone.
So far those are the only options that i think i have at the moment.
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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Flash STOCK or different ROM (Don't forget kernel too) think the issue is with the Cyanogenmod, mine did something similar, when screen went dark it took literally 5-10 Power button presses to wake the phone up, sometimes it wouldn't respond, other soft keys only would light up, Make backup, Wipe, install, check everything, that what I would do
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He cannot flash anything his phone doesn't answer to anything i don't see how he could do that..
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The phone is dead. My friend's gs3 died suddenly one day while I just happen to be using it. I plugged in an otg plug and few minutes later the screen just went black. I was sure it was dead when I plug in a charger and there was no sign of life from the phone.
I don't know if you have to pay a deductible but Samsung is supposedly replacing galaxy s3 for free because there is a known defect which cause the motherboard to go bad. My friend's was a Verizon model and they just replaced it free.
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It doesn't seem to matter what rom I'm on my phone randomly just shuts down about five times a day. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Thanks!
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What roms have you tried and what are you using now? You did a clean installation right? Factory reset, wipe cache, and dalvik cache?
What did you do before this happened?
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Yes I always do a clean install system wipe, factory reset, clear cache etc. I've used about every Rom I think... the only one I can remember not having this issue was darthstalker x1. Right now I'm on stockaroma version 2 and it happens all the time. I even odined back to stock and reflashed and it still happens. I like multi window a lot so I hate to go backwards.
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Have you tried to Odin back to stock and NOT flash a Rom?
If not, give it a shot and let us know.
Also, it could be your battery has finally given its last. If you don't know someone with an s3 go to a T-Mobile store and they should have one you can test with.
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Now that I think of it, I'd get the battery checked before flashing anything else.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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Are they able to check batteries at T-Mobile? I'd hate to buy a new one they're pricy if that's the case I might as well pick up a gs4.
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They should have a known good one you can try. Plug it in and see if the reboots quit. No idea if they'd let you borrow it for a day, but I don't see why not.
If it dropped that quick though, I'm pretty confident that it's related.
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Yes when I was on stock it actually shut down during the first boot. I did notice that after flashing cyanogenmod 10.1 I charged it all night and it was at 100% charge but as soon as I unplugged it then it instantly dropped to like 10% that only happened once though. I guess maybe my battery it's jacked...
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it could also be that you need to clear the battery stats, my brother in law has had that issue many times after flashing CM on several different devices, but it could still be a jacked battery, am a licensed electrician and i can tell you while it does happen often for me because we buy so many products (obviously) that we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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MotoDefier said:
we get bad items directly from the manufacturer.
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This happens way too often. Not just electronics, either.
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How can I clear the battery stats? I used to do this all the time under advance in clockwork recovery but I don't see it there on this phone. Thanks!
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Try this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignisoft.battery.calibration
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Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Metalman1020468 said:
Well I charged my phone to 100% and calibrated the battery and not two minutes later it shut off for like the eighth time today... I'm going to go ahead and order a battery on eBay and if it keeps doing it I'm getting a gs4 and my s3 will be for sale lol.
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Is it a new phone?
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No it's a year old.
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Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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Just since I calibrated my battery last night my phone has already shut down five times. That's so frustrating... Hopefully slapping a new battery in it solves my issues.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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dont worry it should, if not i know its been a year but tmo should replace it under faulty equipment, i have had phones replaced for faulty equip. two and three years later, dont forget to go back to stock and reset binary and flash counter.
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So the battery didn't help at all. Just for fun I flashed darthstalker X1 again and it seems to be working fine now. Weird... I'll try to get to the bottom of this but I'm boggled.
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One more thing it was doing was when I'd turn the screen off it would always come back on. It would do that two or the times before it would stay off then half the time the phone crashed. It's not doing that now either and I had that trouble on several different roms.
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Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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Metalman1020468 said:
Nevermind it's still doing it my phone must be jacked....
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I had those same issues on my motorola defy when I was over clocked and running the v6 supercharger script at the same time.
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Hi,
I am having a problem with my new HTC ONE. The phone ran out of battery so died, but wouldn't charge again - the charge light didnt come on, and so it won't turn on anymore. I didn't do anything to it I SWEAR
However I sent it to HTC Repair as they said it can be fixed under warranty and they sent it back to me in 10 days but it still didn't work. So I called up and they said send it to them again and now they said its a damage not under warranty. So they want £264 for repair! or £26 to return it. What should I do?
Is there any chance they'll fix it for free/give me a new one, or shall I just pay £26 and try get it fixed elsewhere? I read online about how awful the customer service for the repair centre is but now its too late, they may have already purposely damaged my phone :'( I am so sad
:crying::crying:
Before you sent it in did you try simply pressing and holding the power and both home buttons at the same time until it rebooted
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Kiyuubi said:
Before you sent it in did you try simply pressing and holding the power and both volume buttons at the same time until it rebooted
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No I didn't.. when you say "both" are you referring to 2 home buttons? I only know of one at the bottom.
So does that restart the phone?
I should have done something like this before I sent it tbh.. 0_o
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Before you sent it in did you try simply pressing and holding the power and both home buttons at the same time until it rebooted
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No I didn't.. when you say "both" are you referring to 2 home buttons? I only know of one at the bottom.
So does that restart the phone?
I should have done something like this before I sent it tbh.. 0_o
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It was supposed to say both volume buttons when I went to edit it it showed up weird.
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Yeah try pressing both volume up and down buttons + power button at the same time. I've read it can take up to 5 minutes so you may be holding then down for a bit.
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Kiyuubi and josh995 thanks a lot for your help, I will try that when I get my device back and if all else fails.
For now I am going to call them on Monday and complain and see what happens there first. I am not happy to pay £26 for wasting my time!
Has anybody else experienced this same issue at all? Is the hardware of the HTC ONE actually not good enough for its software or something? I would be disappointed yet not surprised...
CloudBibi said:
Kiyuubi and josh995 thanks a lot for your help, I will try that when I get my device back and if all else fails.
For now I am going to call them on Monday and complain and see what happens there first. I am not happy to pay £26 for wasting my time!
Has anybody else experienced this same issue at all? Is the hardware of the HTC ONE actually not good enough for its software or something? I would be disappointed yet not surprised...
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I had this issue right out of the box. Phone wouldn't show that it was charging and I couldn't get it to turn on at all. I was going to return it when I found a thread with a customer service rep troubleshooting this issue with a customer. What ended up working for me was keeping the phone plugged in for a couple hours then holding power and both volume up and down together (while the phone is plugged in) for 2 1/2 minutes (the customer service rep said it could take up to 5 minutes, so hang in there!). Magically, my phone booted up and that was that. From what I could gather, the phone goes into this state when it goes into a super low battery state, but I don't know for sure.
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I had this issue right out of the box. Phone wouldn't show that it was charging and I couldn't get out to turn on at all. I was going to return it when I found a thread with a customer service rep troubleshooting this issue with a customer. What ended up working for me was keeping the phone plugged in for a couple hours then holding power and both volume up and down together (while the phone is plugged in) for 2 1/2 minutes (the customer service rep said it could take up to 5 minutes, so hang in there!). Magically, my phone booted up and that was that. From what I could gather, the phone goes into this state when it goes into a super low battery state, but I don't know for sure.
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Oh wow ok thats great news... thanks for sharing!
I wonder why my customer rep didnt tell me to do that first as well though
Anyway I will update the post to let you all know the outcome =]
So I bricked a SGH-M919 :laugh: messing around an now it does not turn on. Hey I learned a lot.:highfive:
My Linux PC does not see it when I plug the phone in or windows. I tried Kies for the hell of it an it doesn't detect my phone either lol
The good thing is I have another one :good:
Last time I bricked a phone was my Sprint GS3 an i just took it in and they replaced it with a new GS3.
I am new to T mobile and I would like to know if anyone here knows how T Mobile would go about the whole my GS4 doesn't turn on now because of something I did? Or should I just say I lost the phone?
Anyways thanks in advanced.
re: replace phone
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So I bricked a SGH-M919 :laugh: messing around an now it does not turn on. Hey I learned a lot.:highfive:
My Linux PC does not see it when I plug the phone in or windows. I tried Kies for the hell of it an it doesn't detect my phone either lol
The good thing is I have another one :good:
Last time I bricked a phone was my Sprint GS3 an i just took it in and they replaced it with a new GS3.
I am new to T mobile and I would like to know if anyone here knows how T Mobile would go about the whole my GS4 doesn't turn on now because of something I did? Or should I just say I lost the phone?
Anyways thanks in advanced.
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Your best bet is to say you lost it, that way they will
not ask questions or even think about checking out
the phone or even looking at it.
It's a lot easier and faster to get a replacement that way.
Good luck!
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Your best bet is to say you lost it, that way they will
not ask questions or even think about checking out
the phone or even looking at it.
It's a lot easier and faster to get a replacement that way.
Good luck!
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You are right that is my best option thanks.
So I assumes this is a hard brick correct? Since it does not turn on? Is there anything I can do with a hard bricked phone?
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You are right that is my best option thanks.
So I assumes this is a hard brick correct? Since it does not turn on? Is there anything I can do with a hard bricked phone?
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Well, tell me what steps you took that caused this brick? Can you get into download mode (holding down Vol Down + Home + Power)? When you plug your phone into a wall charger, does the screen light up with the battery logo?
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Well, tell me what steps you took that caused this brick? Can you get into download mode (holding down Vol Down + Home + Power)? When you plug your phone into a wall charger, does the screen light up with the battery logo?
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I was messing around with this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
Got it to work for a few mins an then it just froze on me and I had to pull the battery out to reset. After rebooting it just stayed on a black screen like if its not even on. I tried all that an nothing. Odin nothing. When i plug it in PC or charging outlet with original charger nothing happens either nor those it light up with charging battery icon.
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I was messing around with this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
Got it to work for a few mins an then it just froze on me and I had to pull the battery out to reset. After rebooting it just stayed on a black screen like if its not even on. I tried all that an nothing. Odin nothing. When i plug it in PC or charging outlet with original charger nothing happens either nor those it light up with charging battery icon.
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First thing it says... "It is an experimental development snapshot that can potentially brick your device." Someone on xda already had a pretty good running Ubuntu rom released so you didn't have to mess around. From the sounds of it, seems you may have hard bricked it. Maybe I am being hopeful, but connect the phone to your computer and look for any hardware changes. Any sign of life? And to answer your other question, if it is indeed a hard brick, without a JTAG/jig you are screwed.
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Errr does the screen turn on and go black or does it not turn on at all? Big difference.
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First thing it says... "It is an experimental development snapshot that can potentially brick your device." Someone on xda already had a pretty good running Ubuntu rom released so you didn't have to mess around. From the sounds of it, seems you may have hard bricked it. Maybe I am being hopeful, but connect the phone to your computer and look for any hardware changes. Any sign of life? And to answer your other question, if it is indeed a hard brick, without a JTAG/jig you are screwed.
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Errr does the screen turn on and go black or does it not turn on at all? Big difference.
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Yea I read all that. I am trying to port it over.
For what device or do you have a link please? An yea thanks I am looking into the whole jig thing.
It does not turn on at all
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I'd send it to mobile tech. They have a good rep on xda:
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http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s4-jtag-brick-repair/
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GhostSamuraiX said:
It does not turn on at all
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Send it in for repairs as the above poster said. It is better to drop some money on it than lieing to Tmo that you lost it... And I'm sure you would still have to pay the deductible. You are better off sending it in.
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