My Galaxy S3 keeps shutting off during boot. I encountered this problem while running Cmod 11. Was using poweramp playing music off my 64gb exFat microsd card, and suddenly Poweramp encounters "Error too many files" and promptly shuts the phone down. (Poweramp has been giving me strange problems before this, like that error just mentioned, and scanning for changes when there are none, but this is the first time the error caused the phone to shut down).
After rebooting it, The S3 gets to the boot screen and upon opening an app, promptly shuts down again. Further attempts result in the phone shutting off during the boot animation, and finally now the phone simply shuts down right before the boot animation. (note: it doesn't reboot. It turns itself off).
I thought it might be a problem with Cmod, so I wiped everything and using CWM, installed slimkat. Same problem. so I went and installed stock android using Odin, and now I'm back to stock. STILL same problem.
When I have the phone plugged into a computer, it seems to get further than the boot animation before shutting down (sometimes it gets to the lockscreen before shutting down again).
Any idea what's causing this problem? I have no problems with erratic shutdowns during recovery and download mode.
How old is your battery? Might be time to replace it.
This is the same battery the phone came with since a couple years ago. Assuming it is a problem with the battery, why does recovery and download mode still work fine?
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This is the same battery the phone came with since a couple years ago. Assuming it is a problem with the battery, why does recovery and download mode still work fine?
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They're not as heavy to load.
Was any modification done to your phone (software) about when that started happening?
The s3's been on and off custom roms for a year now
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The s3's been on and off custom roms for a year now
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I mean before it started happening. Or were you on the same ROM/version of that ROM for a while when it happened.
Been on cmod for a year before it happened. Reverted to stock rom about a month ago to unlock it, and then straight back to cmod. A couple days after coming back to cmod, this happens.
cheezyphil said:
Been on cmod for a year before it happened. Reverted to stock rom about a month ago to unlock it, and then straight back to cmod. A couple days after coming back to cmod, this happens.
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Well if you can get in recovery, I would suggest doing a clean flash. But chances are that it's your battery giving out.
If you want to test, borrow a battery from another S3. I know with T-Mobile you can go to a store and they usually have a device on hand that you can borrow one from to test it out before spending money on it. I imagine you can do this at AT&T stores as well.
had the same problem with my atnt galaxy s3
i have the same problem,,i am using cm12 ryt now,,i tried to put every single rom and same thing happens,,i also brought it back to its stock firmware,,and still the problem occurs... did u find any solution for it,already?
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I have a stock GN, not rooted yet. Today my phone automatically shut off and now it starts back up, google logo shows up and all those colors come on for couple of seconds and then the phone reboots itself.
I can press both volume up+volume down + power button and get into a menu which gives me the options of Start, Restart bootloader, recovery mode, and power off. I choose recovery mode but then it goes on to an android sign with exclamation mark. After that I can't seem to get anywhere. I have tried volume up +power, volume down+power, and volume up+down+power but nothing seems to work. It just keeps on rebooting it self.
Any solutions to this problem??
There are two possibilities:
1) Software problem. Since you were stock, this is unlikely.
2) Hardware problem. This is more likely, in my opinion.
If you want to eliminate 1) as a possibility, you can try this:
1. Download the GNex Toolkit here
2. Install it & get the drivers working on your computer (if you haven't already)
3. Unlock the bootloader by selecting Option 3 (it'll wipe your phone)
4. Flash factory stock rom by selecting option 8
5. Try it. If it works, congratulations. (if you want to re-lock your bootloader, use option 11)
If this doesn't work, relock your bootloader and send it in for warrantee. (most likely a hardware problem)
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There are two possibilities:
1) Software problem. Since you were stock, this is unlikely.
2) Hardware problem. This is more likely, in my opinion.
If you want to eliminate 1) as a possibility, you can try this:
1. Download the GNex Toolkit here
2. Install it & get the drivers working on your computer (if you haven't already)
3. Unlock the bootloader by selecting Option 3 (it'll wipe your phone)
4. Flash factory stock rom by selecting option 8
5. Try it. If it works, congratulations. (if you want to re-lock your bootloader, use option 11)
If this doesn't work, relock your bootloader and send it in for warrantee. (most likely a hardware problem)
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So, I did the above method and after flashing the factory stock rom it won't start up anymore. It doesn't respond to anything at all. It seems I've bricked it
Is there any way to unrbick it now? I'm assuming I can't send it in for warranty either now if it's semi bricked. Unless it's been completely bricked which means there is still a chance of getting a replacement phone.
I have the same prob on rooted SGN
This morning I switched off the airplane mode to be available, system crashed and restarted. And then still the same again - booting / android logo / restart again.. /./. I am using Android Revolution HD 2.1.5, for last month with no problems.
I tried to boot into recovery, then wipe the cache and reflash rom and radio from sd, it is still the same. I can see all the files on my int. sd with no probs.
Please help.
I'm thinking it might be a hardware issue, but I'll wait for another member's opinion before confirming.
Solved!!!
That's what I thought - HW prob, but it seems that luck is on my side, I hope. It helped to get back on stock but with total deletion including int partition
Anyway thanks for support.
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That's what I thought - HW prob, but it seems that luck is on my side, I hope. It helped to get back on stock but with total deletion including int partition
Anyway thanks for support.
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Was your phone rooted or bootloader unlocked before the problem occurred?
Anyways I've sent in my phone for warranty, hopefully samsung will fix it.
So my phone company called me today and apparently Samsung told them that it's corrosion(?) problem. When I asked exactly what does that mean they said it's moisture damage or physical damage that probably caused it. But I'm confused how could my phone possibly get moisture damage inside an otter box. I know how delegate these devices are and I know how to take care of them.
Anyhow it'll be $90 to fix it. I had no other option so I asked them to go ahead with the repairs. So frustrated with Samsung to be honest. I never dropped my phone once, never had any water damage, phone was always inside the defender case. And I still have to pay them for fixing my phone even though it's not my fault.
That's quite worrying, I just started having boot loop problems today. I've had the phone since Feb 29th and not had a problem with it yet, but today it started boot looping. I went into recovery and did a factory reset, was alright for a couple of hours then it crashed, started bootlooping again. Running stock 4.0.2 unrooted, I'm wondering if flashing 4.0.4 might help.
I'm in the same boat.... unrooting stock 4.0.1 firmware - canadian version from Negri.
April 23rd my phone crashed and started boot looping. Google logo - reboot - Google logo - reboot
Factory reset worked. I installed less apps than I had before figuring perhaps an app was corrupting something.
Yesterday - it happened again. Phone crashed. Boot loop. Factory Reset worked. Installed even fewer apps.
We'll see what happens this time around. I am hoping it is just a software thing. Hoping 4.0.4 gets pushed soon too.....
I've been having the same issue, plus sometimes my home screen it would lock up and wouldn't let me do anything, so I did a battery pull and it would boot loop for a half hour.
After the 3rd time I just took it to my Verizon wireless store, and showed them the situation and they couldn't figure it out, so their sending me a replacement, which I'm not looking forward too, don't want a semi-used phone....
Via Galaxy Nexus [LTE]
Rebooting Issue Solved.
I was also a troubled Samsung Galaxy Nexus user and my phone kept restarting more than half a dozen times everyday. Most of the times when I switched between two or more applications, or when it was simply idle on my desk.
However, I found a solution (at least in my case). All I did was root my phone, install cwm recovery, and flash a custom rom after wiping cache and factory resetting the phone, It's been about 5 to 6 hours now since I flashed the custom rom and I haven't had a single reboot or hang since.
Others who face this problem, please give it a shot, who knows? You might save your Galaxy Nexus instead of sending it back to get a replacement or spend some money on it for repairs which aren't even required in the first place.
I also had this problem unrooted. I had to give it to Samsung for the warranty
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Trinity Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
I got my nexus yesterday, almost immediately after first start it start to install JB from OTA.
I did buy 2000mAh samsung original battery and started straight with it. not even testing with 1750mAh bat.
after installing JB and needed softwares, it started to randomly reboot.
it rebooted even it was just in my pocket.
sometimes when I did do something, display freezed and after about 5sec it rebooted.
Now I did changed to original 1750mAh, and it havent boot at all couple hours, even I did play angrybirds space.
I wont dare to root it before I am very sure problem is with 2000mah battery.
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I got my nexus yesterday, almost immediately after first start it start to install JB from OTA.
I did buy 2000mAh samsung original battery and started straight with it. not even testing with 1750mAh bat.
after installing JB and needed softwares, it started to randomly reboot.
it rebooted even it was just in my pocket.
sometimes when I did do something, display freezed and after about 5sec it rebooted.
Now I did changed to original 1750mAh, and it havent boot at all couple hours, even I did play angrybirds space.
I wont dare to root it before I am very sure problem is with 2000mah battery.
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I could be wrong, but have you tried to clean the pin on the battery? Seems like battery and the phone isn't contracting too well
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Franco Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
Little update, phone did continue rebooting with original 1750mAh battery also.
I did also reset with recovery mode, and after that it did also reboot one time.
like it uses all memory/cpu and when nothing to do reboot (like windows )
I also did flash stock rom with toolkit but no help.
I will test rooting phone and flash another rom, or is it useless ?
after using couple days, not yet rooted.
Phone works and wont reboot even in heavy stress. but sometimes it just reboots by own not a single program in task list.
might reboot right after previous reboot or take hours to reboot.
stupid phone
I have been done some research.
I did one more time reflash google stock with rootkit, and forgot lock phone, it was almost 3 hours by own in wifi, no reboots at all.
when I noticed that I forgot to lock it I rooted whole phone and installed paranoid android 2.13 with CWM.
Now Ive been using 2 hours without any reboot, installing software, setting things up and using apps.
I dont understand at all:silly:
edit: noup, yesterday evening one almost reboot, paranoid android did reset itself but didnt even reset uptime. so I didnt count that normal reboot.
but after wake up this morning, it did reboot once when I put in my pocket, another just lying on table, once activating bluetooth in my car.
going to send it back to seller.
I have a similar issue, although not quite the same. Last night my phone started boot looping - it managed to boot up to the lock screen, and I can use it for about a minute before it dies and then reboots. This continues again and again (I have to pull the battery to quit it).
I have stock JB on my GSM GN, but rooted with an unlocked bootloader / CWM. I restored my old CWM backup, and had the same issue. I also wiped the cache and the dalvik just to see if that helped, but I had the same issue. I then tried to do a factory reset in CWM, but after I did that the boot loop just got to the nexus logo and died, entering a new (slightly shorter) boot loop. I went back into recovery and reflashed my CWM backup, and that at least got me back to booting into android.
I can't understand what's going on - could it be a hardware issue if it will happily stay alive in recovery, but dies after 1-2mins of android?
Thanks for your help. If it is hardware then I hope I can reflash the stock recovery / bootloader and unroot through recovery... the phone doesn't stay on long enough to do it when it's booted into full android!
Hey everyone I have a problem that I sort of fixed but not really? About 2 days ago my phone kept restarting and vibrating. I researched the problem and it said that it might be a stuck button problem. After a few hours I came to the conclusion that a stuck power button was the problem. I went to a cell phone repair shop and had it repaired. IT worked fine on the way home but then I got home and set it on the counter only to come back to it restarting and vibrating all over again. How is that possible after replacing the power button I though. So I did my best and I was able to flash the stock 4.1.2 rom back onto my phone and unroot it and everything. Now my phone has been working fine ever since. Could it be that I cant flash roms anymore? Does anyone know what the real problem to my phone is? If so please respond here. Thank you very much for you're time.
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Hey everyone I have a problem that I sort of fixed but not really? About 2 days ago my phone kept restarting and vibrating. I researched the problem and it said that it might be a stuck button problem. After a few hours I came to the conclusion that a stuck power button was the problem. I went to a cell phone repair shop and had it repaired. IT worked fine on the way home but then I got home and set it on the counter only to come back to it restarting and vibrating all over again. How is that possible after replacing the power button I though. So I did my best and I was able to flash the stock 4.1.2 rom back onto my phone and unroot it and everything. Now my phone has been working fine ever since. Could it be that I cant flash roms anymore? Does anyone know what the real problem to my phone is? If so please respond here. Thank you very much for you're time.
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If your phone is functioning normally.....there's no reason why you can't flash any rom made for our phone.
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The problem is that everytime I flash a custom rom my home button goes crazy and makes the rom un-usable. I have flashed both JMT and Slimrom on my phone and bot ended in the same result.
Jyjieng11 said:
The problem is that everytime I flash a custom rom my home button goes crazy and makes the rom un-usable. I have flashed both JMT and Slimrom on my phone and bot ended in the same result.
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It sounds more like boot loops which can happen often if you look thru the forums. Your buttons either work or they don't. What rom you are on plays no part in hardware issues like that.
Just be sure when trying a rom, you follow the instructions to the letter. Otherwise boot loops can easily happen.
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It sounds more like boot loops which can happen often if you look thru the forums. Your buttons either work or they don't. What rom you are on plays no part in hardware issues like that.
Just be sure when trying a rom, you follow the instructions to the letter. Otherwise boot loops can easily happen.
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It couldnt have been a bootloop because it was working just fine for a while after flashing and then later on I set it on the table to come back to it flashing where it kept unlocking and locking and unlocking. I was unable to do anything with the phone at the time and after a while it kept restarting and vibrating. You dont think its hardware issues?
So tonight out of the blue, my Rogers Galaxy S3 restarted itself. This isn't totally unusual, as sometimes this will happen once or twice a day, but never has it been too bad.
First off, I've been running Cyanogenmod 10.0, and again, has been relatively problem free. The first major issue I had was a week or so ago when I woke up to my phone having seemingly restored it's default settings on its own. Apps and all my other data were intact, but widgets, app settings, etc, were all cleared.
Now tonight, my phone can rarely boot into CM, and when it does, the power menu will appear shortly thereafter before restarting itself once again. If the phone is plugged in, I can't get anything other than the charge indicator to come on the screen for more than a second. The phone also does this when trying to boot into recovery mode or download mode.
I'm at a total loss as to what to do here, so I'm going to be leaving the phone off with the battery out over night. Appreciate any feedback in the meantime.
Also having a similar problem: phone boots up, will barely enter the bootloader/TWRP/boot animation for hyperdrive ROM. Also with rogers. I believe it might be SDS but I need to re install the stock firmware and can barely boot into the bootloader without the phone dying (battery is charged though). Any help greatly appreciated!
EDIT: managed to boot up for long enough to install "eMMC check" and apparently I have a 'sane chip'.
There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Domoo said:
There have been issues with the power button getting stuck. Maybe you have that issue?
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Well, after pulling most of my hair out, that does seem to be the issue. Would explain why the power menu would come up the few times it did manage to boot. I managed to get it working for a while, but the button seems to be really delicate since picking my phone up and barely touching it reset it again.
I guess now I need a solution to the power button sticking, but at least it doesn't seem to be SDS.
Okay, that makes sense. When I leave the phone completely stable it's fine.
However, I have tried unrooting and reinstalling stock firmware. However, my system status in bootloader is still custom, when I boot up the rom I still have superuser installed. I tried installing two different stock firmwares for Rogers and the same problem. Any help would be great, I really want to send this in for warranty ASAP.
EDIT: After using ODIN to install stock rom, I still had Superuser. I installed SuperSU and then preformed it'sfull unroot. After that i cleared data and cache from stock recovery and the phone is now at original status and seems to not be randomly rebooting/dying. Weird.
here's the background: galaxy s3, nonrooted, stock firmware, no physical damage that i'm aware of.
my friend's gs3 is constantly rebooting. essentially, it even reboots at boot up at any of the various splash screens during boot up and does not even boot up fully at all before it'll decide to crap out again. i figured that it may possibly be related to some rogue app so i told her to load up in safe mode but even then, the phone would reboot and attempt to restart again to ultimately fail and repeat. it did manage to boot up for a minute or two under safe mode yet it would restart again. i actually spoke to her last night but when she woke up, her phone wouldn't even stay on. after she had hung up, all she did was charge her phone and found it in it's current condition. we've attempted to remove the battery for a minute or so but the problem persists. the only other assumption was that there might have been an ota update that went bad. unfortunately i have a rooted gs4 so i'm not sure if there was an ota update for the gs3 that i wasn't aware of.
does anyone else have an idea on how to fix this or what may be the problem?
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here's the background: galaxy s3, nonrooted, stock firmware, no physical damage that i'm aware of.
my friend's gs3 is constantly rebooting. essentially, it even reboots at boot up at any of the various splash screens during boot up and does not even boot up fully at all before it'll decide to crap out again. i figured that it may possibly be related to some rogue app so i told her to load up in safe mode but even then, the phone would reboot and attempt to restart again to ultimately fail and repeat. it did manage to boot up for a minute or two under safe mode yet it would restart again. i actually spoke to her last night but when she woke up, her phone wouldn't even stay on. after she had hung up, all she did was charge her phone and found it in it's current condition. we've attempted to remove the battery for a minute or so but the problem persists. the only other assumption was that there might have been an ota update that went bad. unfortunately i have a rooted gs4 so i'm not sure if there was an ota update for the gs3 that i wasn't aware of.
does anyone else have an idea on how to fix this or what may be the problem?
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there was an ota update a bit ago, 4.3...um, is it under warranty or does she have insurance, if so, go to the sprint techs and have them look at it, if not, what you can do/try for it is to completely flash the 4.3 ota update again using odin and download mode...you can do this by clicking on the 2nd link in my signature and see what happens, fixed my phone like this after 4.3 and myself messed it up lol and it's the exact same thing the sprint techs would do for it if you brought it in
so there's your options man...good luck, any questions just post up but the guide is very simple and straight fwd to follow and I provided all that is needed in my download bundle from my dropbox account
edit...if you can't boot up to enable the usb debugging mode, it should still work but it's recommended to do but again, shouldn't really matter, as long as it boots into download mode you should be ready to go
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here's the background: galaxy s3, nonrooted, stock firmware, no physical damage that i'm aware of.
my friend's gs3 is constantly rebooting. essentially, it even reboots at boot up at any of the various splash screens during boot up and does not even boot up fully at all before it'll decide to crap out again. i figured that it may possibly be related to some rogue app so i told her to load up in safe mode but even then, the phone would reboot and attempt to restart again to ultimately fail and repeat. it did manage to boot up for a minute or two under safe mode yet it would restart again. i actually spoke to her last night but when she woke up, her phone wouldn't even stay on. after she had hung up, all she did was charge her phone and found it in it's current condition. we've attempted to remove the battery for a minute or so but the problem persists. the only other assumption was that there might have been an ota update that went bad. unfortunately i have a rooted gs4 so i'm not sure if there was an ota update for the gs3 that i wasn't aware of.
does anyone else have an idea on how to fix this or what may be the problem?
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This isn't an uncommon problem with the S3. I just recently went through this. In my case, and in many other cases, it's a faulty motherboard. Nothing you can do to fix it other than get Sprint to replace the handset.
For me, if I left it completely off for a long time, when I turned it back in it was stable for a couple of hours. Not sure if it was a coincidence, happened a couple of times that way.
OK all I am sincerely reaching out as I am out of ideas. Here is the situation...
Issue : Last evening, running most recent Liquid Smooth 4.4 (Superb ROM, I don't feel this is really at fault just relevant and thorough), I had been doing some heavy tethering when I picked up my beast and stepped out for a smoke. As I am reading up on moto360's 2 1/2 hour sellout I get a random reboot. Eh, no biggy ... it does happen. (Not often, or at all to speak of in my case just stating.) Right after reboot I hit the power button to make a forced boot cycle and it rebooted again before I pressed anything on screen!
Now SOMETIMES I will boot past the initial "NOTE II" splash (NOT often at all ... usually get reboots, splash hangs, or the phone simply turns off on its own from here) If it does make it past Note II splash it will reboot, hang, or simply turn off from here as well.
Steps Taken: I firstly, attempted a restore... no dice. I attempted a fresh install (TW, SlimRom, and DU) ... no dice dos. OK hmmmm
Now to all mighty ODIN (L900VPUCNE2_L900SPTCNE2_1561791_REV04) .... NO FREAKING DICE!!! WTF?!?!? I additionally attempted MC2_STOCK_with_COUNT_RESET-20130511 ... no bueno!
I still have access to Recovery and Download soooooooo ... I lay down at the mercy of you the community!!!
Thanks in advance and if you need more info PLEASE don't be shy!
Same issue here!!!
After a random reboot, I have the same type issue!
Running an almost stock NE2 rom, random reboot then hanging at the Note2 bootscreen.
Like you, I can access download and PhilZ recovery.
I CANNOT flash through recovery. Errors out.
Odin flashes succeed but on reboot I still hang at the Note2 bootscreen.
My recovery is showing multiple error related to accessing E:, E:/cache, etc.
Are you having that issue as well??
Try this go to samsung-updates.com
search device l900 scroll to the very bottom of the list
download the L900VPUCNE2 zip (this is a pure sprint rom)
flash using ODIN3 v3.09
I have flashed this file many times and it works every time.
Hope this Helps.
Exact same thing
I've been running the latest nightlies of OmniRom. And yesterday, out of the blue, random reset then bootloop. No luck with anything, recovery, odin, etc.
Did Sprint deliberately brick our phones?
I'll try the odin to stock to see if I get any luck there. But if anyone else figures it out, it'd be nice to know the fix. Thanks!
No luck going back to stock. It's dead Jim.
I had a very similar issue. Try booting your phone with it plugged into the wall changer; something given the full 2amps of power. It it'll boot, it's possible your battery is bad.
If my case, my phone would boot loop around the splash screen. on the battery power only. I could go into recovery and download mode with no issues and stay on for hours. If I connected it to, say a PC, it would boot, but would random shut off within five minutes. But if I plugged into the wall charger, it would boot with no problems. Stay on for hours. If I plugged it from the charger, it would immediately shut off and try rebooting which it would just boot loop.
Luckily, the batteries are pretty cheap at $10 to $20 on Amazon. I went with the Anker for $15 to get me by till I get my next phone, which will probably be October; I'm heavily learning towards the Note 4
Replace the battery
I had the exact same issues. I ended up buying a $10 battery on amazon and it solved the problem. I did go through all the flashing, odin to stock, etc. All was pretty good when plugged in to a good power source. It took me about 4 hours of trial, error, reflashing, etc before I realized it was probably a battery issue. The new battery has solved the problem.
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I had a very similar issue. Try booting your phone with it plugged into the wall changer; something given the full 2amps of power. It it'll boot, it's possible your battery is bad.
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When I try to power the phone on while plugged to the charger. I see the battery graphic with a circle on it but the phone won't boot at all.
When the random reboot happened the phone WAS plugged into the charger and fully charged. Prior my problem, battery life had been excellent.
Do the batteries go bad instantly?
crackrock360 said:
After a random reboot, I have the same type issue!
Running an almost stock NE2 rom, random reboot then hanging at the Note2 bootscreen.
Like you, I can access download and PhilZ recovery.
I CANNOT flash through recovery. Errors out.
Odin flashes succeed but on reboot I still hang at the Note2 bootscreen.
My recovery is showing multiple error related to accessing E:, E:/cache, etc.
Are you having that issue as well??
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I couldn't flash any of counter reset rom through anything but TWP so i have to boot into download and update away from Philz. AFTER the recovery update I started making headway. but couldn't ever seem to make it past boot no matter how much batter is charged. I was beginning to think it was something that died on the inside (heh...heh)
After reading through some of these greatly appreciated replies I am going to plug her up to the wall and try the ne2 counter reset again(12:58 am). ... AND I may go throw some cash at a battery juuuuuust in case. (I do tether 100gigs daily sooooooo it does make sense that it could have burnted up lmao!)
UPDATE 1:25AM : I did as advised and it does seem battery has taken a dive! hmmm so weird! It still shows having power and charging. But after being plugged into wall I made it booted into a fresh ODIN install!!! (keep in mind that AS SOON AS odin gave me a pass I switched to Wall outlet!) I have even performed a power cycle to confirm it wasn't a fluke! I will indeed be out first thing in the morn to get a new battery!
AGAIN I can not thank you all enough ... I would have never thought of that. (you would think it would be one of the first things but eh you live and learn.)
I will update with any new progress!
cheers!
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When I try to power the phone on while plugged to the charger. I see the battery graphic with a circle on it but the phone won't boot at all.
When the random reboot happened the phone WAS plugged into the charger and fully charged. Prior my problem, battery life had been excellent.
Do the batteries go bad instantly?
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'When the random reboot happened the phone WAS plugged into the charger and fully charged. Prior my problem, battery life had been excellent.' EXACT CIRCUMSTANCES AS I SIR!!!
Mine does the same and hangs .... right? HIt the power button and as soon as it lights up to start to boot then plug in the power cable. (the freezing while off and charging is a known bug in at least two roms i believe)
Congrats Rubledub!
As for me, I'm still screwed. Invested $40 in a battery (had to have it today, couldn't wait on shipping)
With the new battery fully charged I still have the same result!
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,,, Do the batteries go bad instantly?
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There were probably signs of the battery going bad, but misread. But in my experience, it went to total crap instantly.
The signs of going bad were shorter battery life, getting stuck/freezing when trying to charge the phone when off (there's that battery graphic that shows up). Unfortunately, I did all kids of other stuff before I really figured it out, and looks like a messed up my modem and now cannot connect to 3G. Kind of irritating, but luckily, I spend 75% of my time in LTE areas. Just got to ride this out till the Note 4 is released.
Here is thread of when I was having trouble: linky/URL]. It's a lot of me trying slightly different things with no changes in results. Plus, I was a buddy's house who was in a 3G only area. The worse part, my phone did this the day before I left to spend the weekend five hundred miles away from home at a friend's house to visit.
sloanmeister said:
Try this go to samsung-updates.com
search device l900 scroll to the very bottom of the list
download the L900VPUCNE2 zip (this is a pure sprint rom)
flash using ODIN3 v3.09
I have flashed this file many times and it works every time.
Hope this Helps.
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Just chiming in to say this worked for me! Thanks!
Joelski144 said:
Just chiming in to say this worked for me! Thanks!
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Oh i agree! Thats is what had me so baffled ... Not even the odin installs were breathing life, and Odin ALWAYS works for me. If Odin isnt getting it done and neither is a battery then your problem may be far more serious???
Weird Recovery Lag and bootlooping after CM12 update
Hey guys,
I came across this thread and the issues I'm having sound so what similar, so I thought you might be able to help.
I have two Samsung Note 2(l900) and running on cm12 as of yesterday morning. I installed the new nightly manually on both devices the same exact way by opening clockwork recovery and installing zip. One device was successful and is working just fine, the other seemed to flash fine until it had finished loading the apps and going into boot. The device would restart on the note 2 logo screen and then proceed to the cm12 boot screen and then restart after a few seconds. I went back into recovery which took longer than usual, and proceeded to clear partition, wipe dalvik cache, and install older nightlies. I had the same result no matter what nightly I went with.
I decided to set the device back to stock rom and root again. I it worked just fine, so I went through the process about 4 times installing different nightlies but had the same restarting results. It was then I noticed that getting in clockwork recovery manually lagged about 30 seconds. I took the advice of someone on the Google plus forum and switched the recovery from clockwork to twrp. Tried again with the same restarting results and with the manual recovery lagging about 30 seconds to get into.
I'm back on stock rom and the device is working great but takes forever to get into manual recovery which I believe is why it is having issues booting Cm 12