Okay. When I put my battery into my phone, the Samsung screen shows up. Then, it restarts, and I don't even make it to the Samsung screen before it restarts again and does the little vibrate it does when it starts. When I try to access recovery, it shows the default recovery screen for a couple of seconds, and then it goes back to what I said earlier. I don't even make it to the download mode screen AT ALL. And when I plug it into the wall, it shows the battery screen for a couple seconds, but then its just back to constant restarts. I have had my current ROM install for a long time now and I just want to flash the stock kernel to my phone. Is there any hope in me being able to get the stock kernel flashed through Odin seeing as that I can't even get to the download screen?
Sounds like a bad power button
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Would another sign of a bad power button be that before this happened, my button was SUPER touchy? Like, I would barely lay a finger on it and it would sense it.
I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. I found a post and some of the signs are: Black screen with intermittent vibrating, unable to enter recovery before phone restarts, unable to enter download mode before restart, phone turns on when battery inserted. Looks like I need to take the phone apart. Thank you for mentioning it could be the power button.
Never mind. The Bandaid Fix for the power button did not work.
guitarhero923 said:
Never mind. The Bandaid Fix for the power button did not work.
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There are a few fixes suggested in the bandaid thread. I think one of them involves banging the button with a rubber eraser. Hopefully one will work for you.
I beat the ever living sh*t out of the power button with a screw driver out of anger. Did not help.
guitarhero923 said:
I beat the ever living sh*t out of the power button with a screw driver out of anger. Did not help.
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usually the button doesnt click-like the feel you get from the volume buttons-if it doesnt click its bad or going bad. on mine i kept squeezing with small pliers until it started clicking-(found on youtube) thats been a year ago, still going
Fasted12 said:
usually the button doesnt click-like the feel you get from the volume buttons-if it doesnt click its bad or going bad. on mine i kept squeezing with small pliers until it started clicking-(found on youtube) thats been a year ago, still going
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Well. It clicks, but the click isn't as... how do I explain this, as quick and CLICK LIKE? It just feels like there is a bit of resistance and it doesn't do a full intense click lol. If that makes any sense.
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I have a sort of weird issue. I've got a rooted evo4g with an unlocked bootloader running alter rom. I had some issues with it a while back, so I ran fix permissions and cleared the caches through amon-ra. when I did that, all hell broke loose. my power button stopped working and the volume button took over to wake up the screen. Not only does the power button not work when booted anymore, it won't even work in recovery or in the bootloader. the volume buttons will navigate in recovery, but not in bootloader.
I would like to do a nandroid backup so I can reflash my phone and then just restore my texts, call logs, etc on a clean flash...but since I can't select any menu options in recovery I can't do a nandroid backup.
I have cwm touch for my nexus s 4g, but I don't see one for evo 4g....only standard evo. is that one the same? can I still use it on an evo4g? I know some phones are not interchangeable with recovery on variants...like nexus s, for example hs two recoveries...one for 3g, one for 4g.
also, does anyone have any idea what may have caused the buttons to go haywire like this? I've never seen anything like it. I mean, sure buttons die. All moving parts fail at some point...it's in their nature....but switching control to another hw button???? That jusy makes my head hurt to think about how it could have happened!! lol
Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
johnny.dalvik-cache said:
even though death by soap has twice as many posts but the same number of thanks as you, he is right on about this.
smelkus is a great recovery and is, essentially, touch screen. what do you do if your phone turns completely off, and are you a little familar with adb?
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hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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Download smelkusmod recovery. It has touch scrolling and you can scroll, select and Deselect with the haptic buttons.
Your power button issue could be a hardware failure. Possibly one of the connectors came undone rendering the power button useless.
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hp420 said:
hmmm...good question. It's actually my sister's phone. I'm also interested in knowing how she turns it back on...I'll definitely ask her that. when I turned it off I had to pull the battery and I quickly re-inserted it so it would trigger a start-up, but I'm not sure about how she turns it on if it's been off for a while.
...and yes, I'm novice-level with adb. I know adb, fastboot, etc...enough to get by, at least I have a black belt in google-fu, too...so anything I don't understand google teaches me lol
(btw, my thank you's came from the ns4g section. I posted the first working jb rom for my device and everyone clicked thanks for it....I'm no star dev or anything to say the least )
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I just texted her...she says it always auto boots when the battery is re-inserted as long as it has a charge. it almost sounds like the power button is just stuck in a pressed position...but wouldn't I notice that when android is booted by the power control menu always being displayed (which I can't even get to display if I do press the button)???
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I just tested with my ns4g by holding down the power button all the way through a reboot, until after the phone FULLY booted....no power menu popped up.
what are the odds the button is just stuck in a pressed position?? anyone want to take bets? I'm gonna take it apart tonight and see if that's what it is unless someone has any other ideas.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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just saw this thread. and seeing as how the phone auto-boots when the battery is put in, it does sound like the power button is stuck in the 'down' position. i recently went through a similar thing with the power button, and i opened up the phone and just put the button back in place. does the button acutally LOOK like it's depressed ( ...hehe..sorry, i dont know how else to ask that..) like..is the button not protruding out like it should? if you're down for opening the phone up (which is surprisingly easy if you have the proper little screw-drivers) then it MIGHT be an easy fix. i had never done it before, and it really was easy. you can put that black-belt to use for some easy video tutorials. but, please procede with caution.
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I can't say if it looks pressed since it's not currently in front of me...I know exactly what you mean, though. The inner workings of the button get stuck, and the outer rubber piece will be sort of caved in instead of sticking out like it should.
I build gaming computers as a side-hobby. I'm sure a little disassembly won't be too difficult, as long as I'm not removing any of the guts and I can just get to it by opening the case, I should be ok....too much more and I run into issues when things are that tightly packed into a case.
(reading a tear-down tut now )
Awesome! It should be a piece of cake for you, especially with your video game background. Cool. Let me know how it goes.
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Can someone help me please? My rom today started to act up and froze, then my phone crashed and now won't enter into the boot or recovery or download mode it just continues to vibrate.
Could be your power button, have you tried to pry it a little.
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Could be your power button, have you tried to pry it a little.
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Yeah it still clicks and if I try to push the battery into the sockets and plug in my phone it'll set into download mode for a few seconds not enough to restore it and crash again
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Yeah it still clicks and if I try to push the battery into the sockets and plug in my phone it'll set into download mode for a few seconds not enough to restore it and crash again
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Still sounds like your power button. Seen many, many threads like this, and several have figured its the power button. Mobile tech offers a great power button service, check them out
http://mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-power-button-repair/
The power button on my S3 (SGH-i747) is pretty messed up. When i'm not touching it, it decides to register a press and completely messes up everything im doing on the phone. It has such frequent reboots that i can barely boot into recovery. The only way i can actually boot is by holding the phone horizontally with the power button facing down. Is there any fix to this? I'm on CM10.1.0 so would flashing back to stock decrease the sensitivity of this button? Or is it necessary to fix at the shop?
Also i have a cracked screen, so im not sure it would be accepted under the warranty even if it's unrooted.
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The power button on my S3 (SGH-i747) is pretty messed up. When i'm not touching it, it decides to register a press and completely messes up everything im doing on the phone. It has such frequent reboots that i can barely boot into recovery. The only way i can actually boot is by holding the phone horizontally with the power button facing down. Is there any fix to this? I'm on CM10.1.0 so would flashing back to stock decrease the sensitivity of this button? Or is it necessary to fix at the shop?
Also i have a cracked screen, so im not sure it would be accepted under the warranty even if it's unrooted.
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Hardware failure, repair it or get a new phone
nothing you can do, the flex cable that connect's the button to the board is either busted or shorted
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Hardware failure, repair it or get a new phone
nothing you can do, the flex cable that connect's the button to the board is either busted or shorted
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I'm having the same issue.
There's absolutely nothing I can do? I thought maybe if I'd open up the device and tinker with it... maybe I can get it working.
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I'm having the same issue.
There's absolutely nothing I can do? I thought maybe if I'd open up the device and tinker with it... maybe I can get it working.
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Yes this is quite an annoying problem. If you're having the same problem, are you able to boot into download mode? I can't for some reason.
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Yes this is quite an annoying problem. If you're having the same problem, are you able to boot into download mode? I can't for some reason.
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Something like this you don't want to boot into download mode. What if it resets while you're pushing a file? then your whole phone will be messed up.
I got mine to boot. My method is a bit unorthodox though.... i kept pressing the power button throughout the boot process up until the lock screen. Once it finally loads... i flicked the power button a few times really hard.... it seems to stay in the position but remains extremely sensitive.. as in, i dont even have to press it to turn off the screen.
sucks man... i think this is happening to a lot of power users. I'm literally one week past my warranty.
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Something like this you don't want to boot into download mode. What if it resets while you're pushing a file? then your whole phone will be messed up.
I got mine to boot. My method is a bit unorthodox though.... i kept pressing the power button throughout the boot process up until the lock screen. Once it finally loads... i flicked the power button a few times really hard.... it seems to stay in the position but remains extremely sensitive.. as in, i dont even have to press it to turn off the screen.
sucks man... i think this is happening to a lot of power users. I'm literally one week past my warranty.
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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if you hold the power button for 5 seconds or more , it will skip that power menu and reboot. So this still sounds like power button to me.
thanks for the link, been searching everywhere... so fckin hard to search all the S3 threads on XDA. They need to consolidate
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Yeah i didnt want anything to happen while anything is installing etc. I somehow got into recovery, but it shut down within a second. (thankfully the first option in cwm is reboot, so that saved me). I can't return for warranty because I'm rooted on CM10.1.0, which was why i wanted to attempt unrooting (but that seems impossible at the moment).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1753574
That thread seems to be the solution to our problem, but i feel that if i open it up, something worse will happen. Right now, the phone boots up fine when held horizontally (but shuts down ~2min later) and i can easily backup my data.
One strange thing that i've noticed with this problem that maybe isn't right. Normally , do you have to hold down the power button to shut it off? I always used to think that a power menu would show, THEN you could select shut down, but here, it just shuts down. The power menu flashes sometimes, but shuts down anyway. This may also have me believe that something other than the power button is the problem.
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Were you able to fix your problem with the fix in that link? I seem to be having the same problem as you.
No, I ended up buying a new phone (I was going to upgrade anyway). I took out the power button, but that wasn't the problem. In a way, it was the button under the button that was sensitive. I would have to take out the motherboard to see the exact problem.
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Hello guys, i'm trying to repair my girlfriends t989, you know all girls are destroying phones. so the problem is, that you put in the battery, phone 1st time boots and after 5 secs, just black screen and vibrates. i've searched for this problem, and it says that is the power button, yesterday i changed it, so i thing its something with software, any help guys?
UPDATE: i can go in download mode, but only for a few secs, then slighly blue screen flashes and again vibrating
Is there any way to flash software not through download mode and recovery?
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Hello guys, i'm trying to repair my girlfriends t989, you know all girls are destroying phones. so the problem is, that you put in the battery, phone 1st time boots and after 5 secs, just black screen and vibrates. i've searched for this problem, and it says that is the power button, yesterday i changed it, so i thing its something with software, any help guys?
UPDATE: i can go in download mode, but only for a few secs, then slighly blue screen flashes and again vibrating
Is there any way to flash software not through download mode and recovery?
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This is the power button for sure.
I had the same problem, and all I did was to open the screws and clean the contacts with alcohol and clean up the edges with tooth pick and put everything back again. Tried couple of times and that fixed my issue.
Hope that helps. .
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This is the power button for sure.
I had the same problem, and all I did was to open the screws and clean the contacts with alcohol and clean up the edges with tooth pick and put everything back again. Tried couple of times and that fixed my issue.
Hope that helps. .
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well, i changed the whole button, so thats strange
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well, i changed the whole button, so thats strange
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Button changed, that's good.
Looks and Clean where button sits and button contacts and sides.
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Phone randomly turns off/reboots (mostly reboots). Sometimes the phone won't go past the "SAMSUNG" screen on boot. I booted the phone into recovery and download mode multiple times but it'll reboot after a minute or two.
I've tried another battery and still had the same issue. I've removed the battery and held the power button down to discharge power. I've opened up the phone, blew the dust out, and made sure that the power button was not getting stuck. I'm fairly certain it's not a rogue app causing the issue, but I've factory reset the phone to stock.
Please advise!
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Phone randomly turns off/reboots (mostly reboots). Sometimes the phone won't go past the "SAMSUNG" screen on boot. I booted the phone into recovery and download mode multiple times but it'll reboot after a minute or two.
I've tried another battery and still had the same issue. I've removed the battery and held the power button down to discharge power. I've opened up the phone, blew the dust out, and made sure that the power button was not getting stuck. I'm fairly certain it's not a rogue app causing the issue, but I've factory reset the phone to stock.
Please advise!
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if you have a sd card, sometimes a funky sd card will cause this as well. remove yours for a while to check if its causing your issue
Sounds like the same problem I was having. Take your finger and lightly move it up and down over the power button.. if it acts up or reboots it could be the button issue..
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I was having the EXACT same issue. I thought it might be the recent upgrade to the cm11 nightlies since before it was once a week but now it's just non-stop. Is the issue the actual power button switch or the plastic buttons?
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Sounds like the same problem I was having. Take your finger and lightly move it up and down over the power button.. if it acts up or reboots it could be the button issue..
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beantek said:
I was having the EXACT same issue. I thought it might be the recent upgrade to the cm11 nightlies since before it was once a week but now it's just non-stop. Is the issue the actual power button switch or the plastic buttons?
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For me it was the power button itself.. Read my post on how to fix the issue yourself if you dont want to take your phone into Sprint
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2679936
Fixed (kind of )
I've taken my phone apart before to replace the speaker/audio jack module after my headphone jack stopped working in one ear (also a common s3 problem). I did as suggested and added a piece of paper wedged in between the button and the button switch. Surprisingly the switch was perfectly clicky so any problem will have to be internally such as corrosion or just worn out. The problem seemed to have been fixed (kind of, not really) as the phone turned on and wouldn't freak out when I rubbed the power/hold button. I got all my data off the phone successfully. The buttons themselves are pretty cheap online but I don't want to have to solder considering I have an upgrade. I'll just get an S5 whenever they are available. Thanks for the help.
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For me it was the power button itself.. Read my post on how to fix the issue yourself if you dont want to take your phone into Sprint
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2679936
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I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions. I determined that it was in fact a power button issue.
My "FIX" (for anyone with similar issues):
Temporary:
I removed the logic board from the phone and flicked the button up and down and that helped a little with the button's hypersensitivity. Because a slight tap would make the button "stick" and power off, I took apart the phone and physically removed the plastic power button. I could hit the button if necessary with a small screwdriver or my watch strap thingy, but I did my best to keep the battery from dying out. As for dealing with a lack of "lock" button, I installed an xposed module that let me remap my volume up button as a lock button.
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My mother recently upgraded her phone and gave me her S3. Unfortunately it had a cracked screen. I removed her logic board and swapped it out with what was in phone and reactivated her phone as mine.
Thanks for everyone's help, and hopefully this can help someone else too!