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I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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Thephonewhisperer85 said:
I'm not sure if I'm posting in the correct place as this is my first time, so I apologize in advance if not. As my the title states I currently have a samsung epic 4g that will not boot past the samsung screen. The phone is not rooted and was running stock software. This phone also will not load a recovery menu as it will not boot past the samsung screen (and yes I'm aware of the redundancy). I have tried flashing older stock files using odin and I get a successful read with no errors, however when the phone resets post flash it will still not boot past the samsung screen.......PLEASE HELP I am at my wits end and open to suggestions. Thanks
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+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Jbb3393 said:
+1 here too! Girlfriends phone has the exact same problem since last night. It also is not showing that it is charging...??
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Best I can say to you both is get a stronger cable if your not already using one and if you do have a cable other than the oem one then try leaving the battery out of the phone and hold the power button for about a minute to let the capacitors discharge then let it sit with the battery still out for about an hour :/ if you don't mind me asking, what happened to the phone before the issue started?
Try to Odin with the battery out.
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Try to Odin with the battery out.
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And with sd card out too
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Its possible to odin without the battery in? How does it populate the com and do you put it in download mode first then pull battery or just plug it and let it fly?
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Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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Ok so I just tried to flash with odin with battery out I did put it in dowload mode after plugging it up....I removed the sd card as well. Now it boots to the samsung screen but the difference is that now the red led stays lit and the capacitive keys on the bottom row do as well. Any suggestions?
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I am stuck while odin right now with battery in... Suppose I will pull battery and try without next...
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Jbb3393 said:
Thanks for the replies. I am trying "the duce's" advice first, no luck yet. She had went to take a picture of the "beautiful sky" last night in the hot tub and dropped it. I immediately took the battery out and when we got to our apartment took the hair dryer (on medium heat of course) to it. I then put the battery in and turned it on and it worked! Until she decided it needed a restart and it hasn't came on since...
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In that case, I would make sure every last bit of moisture is out of the casing by leaving it covered by rice over night.... it might be short circuiting :/
Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Huge thanks for the replies here as well and to address duces question, in my case nothing outside of normal use on the phone. I powered it off and when I powered it back on I was stuck on samsung
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That's just odd :/ I honestly haven't a clue as to what may be going wrong.... at least you made some progress with the capacitive buttons lighting up and your notification led is lighting, usually that's a sign it'll boot
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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I guess you are the phone whisperer lol
Thephonewhisperer85 said:
Get this....never got it to boot using odin or by completely discharging the capacitors but on a hunch changed out the lcd this morning and boots right up. What the heck, does anyone know why this worked? Haha very confused now even though the issue is resolved.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Must have been some kind of failure mode for hardware check then. I had the same thing with my airbag switch in my truck. Airbag light came on because the stupid bulb in the switch was blown. Almost cost me $35 for a switch instead of $1.50 at Radio Shack.
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Has anyone been able to boot into safe mode(hold power button and capacitive menu button) after the phone not booting normally?
im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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im rooted and finished flashing one of the roms, now it seems like its stuck on boot screen.... do i just leave it on? or do the whole flashing process over again?
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You can try a reflash, restore your previous nand backup and try again, or Odin in a prerooted ROM and start from there. But if it goes more than a minute on SAMSUNG you are done. After flashing the S will take a few minutes (or whatever boot screen the ROM has) while it rewrites Dalvik cache.
My epic is doing the same thing. It was stuck in recovery menu when I pulled it out of my pocket. Rebooted and stuck on sanding screen.
I figured out what I did. I installed wrong kernal... noob for me lol
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So this is extremely weird. About a week ago i flashed the most recent miui.us from rom manager. last night i went to sleep with it on charge and when i woke up and pressed the power button to see the time.... the camera flashed but the screen didnt come on
Ive pulled the batter and tried to turn it on: same thing
ive tried to boot into recovery: same thing
ive tried to use the gnex toolkit 10.1: its not recognized
so what im trying to figure out, because ive looked all through the toolkit... is there a way to flash an unresponsive gnex (or) have any of you guys heard of this issue before
Verizon Galaxy Nexus
This is a very strange issue.
Have you tried booting the phone into download (Odin) mode?
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did someone or you install an anti theft app onto your device? one that takes pictures of the thief if they try using the device..
I feel like I have tried everything but the odin program, my does absolutely nothing besides flash no matter what button combination I try.
and no I have not installed that app... i actually wasnt aware that it existed!
I just really do NOT want to send it to Samsung. This was actually a warranty replacement I received about a month ago. I flashed MIUI the day i got it and it was acting fine the whole time until I woke up and it was doing this
So ODIN it, you need ODIN for your PC and the recovery files for your GalNex. That should fix you right up, I wouldn't want to send it to Samsung either, they'd try to charge you regardless of warranty.
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So ODIN it, you need ODIN for your PC and the recovery files for your GalNex. That should fix you right up, I wouldn't want to send it to Samsung either, they'd try to charge you regardless of warranty.
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ahhh it wont go into download mode... I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO! this dumb phone only flashes! it should be on some slutty reality tv show,,,
snider.1993 said:
ahhh it wont go into download mode... I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO! this dumb phone only flashes! it should be on some slutty reality tv show,,,
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USB Jig. Available on Amazon for around $3.
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Hello all...
I typically charge my phone while I sleep and it has never been a problem. I was running the stock deodexed ICS rom on my phone at the time. i unplugged it and all was well as usual. i grabbed my phone to come put a JB rom on it this morning and i left it on my desk, not plugged in. I came back to it and it was HOT, the entire phone, and wouldn't do anything. I took out the battery and let it cool (phone and battery) and now I got nothing.
Is there anything I can do??? I tried to search but couldn't find anything on this...
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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Hello all...
I typically charge my phone while I sleep and it has never been a problem. I was running the stock deodexed ICS rom on my phone at the time. i unplugged it and all was well as usual. i grabbed my phone to come put a JB rom on it this morning and i left it on my desk, not plugged in. I came back to it and it was HOT, the entire phone, and wouldn't do anything. I took out the battery and let it cool (phone and battery) and now I got nothing.
Is there anything I can do??? I tried to search but couldn't find anything on this...
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
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See if you can get into download mode or recovery. But let it cool for awhile.
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richardlibeau said:
See if you can get into download mode or recovery. But let it cool for awhile.
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so far nothing, I am trying to charge the battery externally to see if that will help as well....
phone is completely cooled and still no nothing, not responding to any button combos or DL mode... i hope it didn't hose itself... :'(
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phone is completely cooled and still no nothing, not responding to any button combos or DL mode... i hope it didn't hose itself... :'(
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sounds like a hard brick. check out mobiletechvideos.com on youtube they will fix it for $50
Question how would it be a hard brick if he didn't flash any ROMs on it yet..said he was running stock ROM and the phone got hot and wouldn't respond...sounds like the mother board is fried
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thakrew317 said:
Question how would it be a hard brick if he didn't flash any ROMs on it yet..said he was running stock ROM and the phone got hot and wouldn't respond...sounds like the mother board is fried
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agreed, hardware issue
Thanks for the replies guys. I am looking for a bit of advice from the mobile tech guys for a concern I have...
I was wondering if Samsung has the same stuff they do.... T-mobile is sending me a warranty swap.... I don't want to get a bill about the phone....
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If it won't turn on you should be fine....
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my phone once was doing that same thing when it was just sitting there on the table. I picked it up though and felt it was very hot and pulled the battery before it could fry itself. It probably was some code that was looping or something because my phone never did it again
I came home from grabbing a bite to eat. About 30 minutes had passed and I was wondering why I havent heard my phone in a few. Checked and the notification light was blinking. Tried to press the power button to turn it on and nothing. Pulled the S Pen out because that would make it come on and still nothing. Pulled the battery and now all i get is the "Samsung Galaxy Note 2" screen. If i leave it there, after about 2 hours it will make the T-Mobile jingle and go into a boot loop. The boot loop lasts until i pull the battery again.
My phone was not rooted, no ROMs or anything. Only apps I had that did not come preinstalled on the phone were, Facebook, Tweetcaster, Instagram, Hill Climb Racing, Subway Surfer and my banking app.
My Galaxy 2 did something similar but i blamed it on the ROM I was using and figured I had bricked it some way. My faith in Samsung products is declining....
Are you able to connect it to a pc and is it recognized through ADB?
If so, I would try using ODIN and dumping the stock firmware and start from fresh.
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Are you able to connect it to a pc and is it recognized through ADB?
If so, I would try using ODIN and dumping the stock firmware and start from fresh.
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Yeah i tried that after i talked to TMobile and my replacement phone was on the way. It is recognized in ODIN but it takes about 45 minutes to complete the process and then it fails.
Weird. Had the same problem about a couple of hrs ago. Also I tried hitting the middle button. And turn on button and nothing. Turned it off. Took the battery off and waited about 30 secs. But it back in. And it worked. Never had happen to me...
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Galaxysm said:
Weird. Had the same problem about a couple of hrs ago. Also I tried hitting the middle button. And turn on button and nothing. Turned it off. Took the battery off and waited about 30 secs. But it back in. And it worked. Never had happen to me...
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Similar scenario/solution except never a bootloop.. just went from 6% battery to completely dead.
I didnt try to turn it on, but pressed (tapped power button) and the phone wouldnt do anything. It also didnt respond to a charge, plugged it in to several wall outlets in various rooms, until I pulled the battery for, like ive been trained through older droids, 30 seconds...
Replaced the battery, plugged it in and got it charging, waited til 20-30% before turning on phone to verify, and yes everything was working fine!!
No issues since
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Well thats good but yeah it has been weird lol. I had never had that on my s2. So I got scared D: LOL.
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I had the same problem, I had tjot my phone died but I know I had at leas y 80% of battery left. I tried using my phone nothing, plugged it up nothing. So I pulled the battery and it finally came on. This wad the 1st time it occured, the next time was like yours only the notification light was fladhing the power button and nor the home button worked. I removed apps that I tjought wad causing it. I had called Samsung and tmobile snd they never heard of such problem. They only suggested I do a hard reset. It hasn't happened in a while now but if it does I want a replacement, since I now know im not crazy, and you guys have had the same problem
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I had the same problem, I had tjot my phone died but I know I had at leas y 80% of battery left. I tried using my phone nothing, plugged it up nothing. So I pulled the battery and it finally came on. This wad the 1st time it occured, the next time was like yours only the notification light was fladhing the power button and nor the home button worked. I removed apps that I tjought wad causing it. I had called Samsung and tmobile snd they never heard of such problem. They only suggested I do a hard reset. It hasn't happened in a while now but if it does I want a replacement, since I now know im not crazy, and you guys have had the same problem
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Well at least you all's phone started back working, mine didn't. I. Got my replacement today.
same thing here
yesterday my phone was up with blue light then when i try hit the power button get black screen took out the battery and now the phone didnt even charge or show any signal i will apreciate any help thanks
Dont know if thats SDS (don't know symptoms) but did you ever check to see if your phone is safe?
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can u explain what u mean by safe.....
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Certain SGIII and GNII chips are vulnerable to SDS... I meant, by chance did he download eMMC Brickbug to verify what type of chip he has and if it chip was "vulnerable"?
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My chip is good but one time my phone died from 6% and wouldnt start charging through any wall plug, so I then pulled the battery, waited 30 seconds, and it started charging.
20-30% later I turned on the phone, and it hasnt had an issue since (even through rom/kernal flashes)
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Where do you get the program to verify?
It happen again to me. But I was at 100% charge. Weird...
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acjames said:
Where do you get the program to verify?
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It says no. Sane chip?
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Its not whether it says sane or not... what matteres is the chip you have... screenshot please
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So I was using my phone yesterday and all of a sudden it shut off. Now it won't boot. Every time I try to go into recovery or do a hard reset I just reboots.
I am running the latest update from sprint non rooted
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Vladabeast said:
So I was using my phone yesterday and all of a sudden it shut off. Now it won't boot. Every time I try to go into recovery or do a hard reset I just reboots.
I am running the latest update from sprint non rooted
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If it has any power at all its not bricked, if it's just bootlooping and you can't get into the os, recovery, or download mode you'll have to bring it to Sprint
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Vladabeast said:
So I was using my phone yesterday and all of a sudden it shut off. Now it won't boot. Every time I try to go into recovery or do a hard reset I just reboots.
I am running the latest update from sprint non rooted
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If it comes on, u are Ok. Just go into download mode and Odin back to stock or if u can get into recovery, just refresh what ever rom u are running if u are rooted
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The battery might be dead....do you have another battery to try?
Does it go to the Samsung logo then stops?
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You already have some good people asking and giving you suggestions. Just one more, questions go in Q&A not general.
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This happing to me, the phone stays for few secs and the shuts of. I can boot into recovery and download mode but it will still reset before I can do anything. I thinks its a hard ware issue
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Thanks to all for the advice. I have tried going into Odin mode to do that download thing but it just ends up rebooting. 99% of the time it just turns off says Samsung and then shuts off. I cannot get into Odin mode or recovery and I am running stock non rooted
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And yes I have 2 batteries and have tried both with no succes
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Check your power button, I have read about this in the past. It turned out to be a faulty power button that stays pressed in causing it to Reboot. Play with the power button make sure it's not sticking if you have a case on it take it off.
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This happened to me Friday same exact thing. Took it to sprint they couldn't even get it to boot so I ended up with a replacement.
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I took out the power button and now it works. I downloaded an app that uses the proximity sensor to turn the screen off. Will sprint replace the power button?
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Vladabeast said:
I took out the power button and now it works. I downloaded an app that uses the proximity sensor to turn the screen off. Will sprint replace the power button?
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Can't you put it back in just making sure it doesn't stick anymore? If not then yes take it in, it's definitely a hardware failure.
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Well I think it's the actual button inside the phone cause when I put it back in, the button sticks and it goes into a bootloop
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this issue is called the "sudden death"
it just happened to me and i shipped my phone to samsung to get fixed.