Hi everyone!
I rooted the Tab S + installed Xposed (Xprivacy and Gravity box).
No issues with that except the wifi password being lost upon reboot (had secure storage set to false in /system/build.prop with no effect really).
Then during reboot, after the first screen (the one that say Galaxy tab S),while there's the animated Samsung logo showing, the tab froze...
Now I have the screen showing Samsung, pressing the power button , the recovery or download key combination does nothing...
On My S5 I would have removed the battery but here it's not possible so I'm waiting for the battery to be empty...
Any idea how to force the shutdown?
Has any one tried to open the tab to remove the battery?
Thanks !!
Press and hold power till screen turns off. Keep holding....
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I've been trying that for 3 minutes straight...
it's not working...
Thanks for the suggestions !!
Press and hold power, volume down and menu button. You will get to the fastboot page.
Sent from my rooted Galaxy S5.
Hi,
So none of the hardware key combination ( to reboot in recovery or in download mode ) worked.
After a while , there was no energy left in the battery so the tablet did stop.
After some charging, it rebooted as if nothing happened :silly:
And this time, no https connection worked (no google play, drive connection possible..).
So I did a factory reset, rooted ( this time , the wifi password was not lost),install Xposed ( with gravity box, Xprivacy and App settings).
Now everything is working fine :laugh:
I have no idea what went wrong in the first place, I hope this thread might bu useful to someone !
Thanks !!
johnnytraveler said:
Press and hold power, volume down and menu button. You will get to the fastboot page.
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Thanks! This worked for me after having fiddled with resolutions in ROM Toolbox Pro. I had "System UI" and some other app crashing in a tight loop, and holding power button down didn't make it shut down, ever.
It looks like now I'll have to reflash it with Odin, but at least I can get there without having to wait for it to run out of juice
Cheers
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Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks
that is because your phone is not defective
your phone did not have the 3 button mode disabled
No I have thee button issue. I would not work other wise.
I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.
Podgintor said:
I tried this, Volume Up + Home + Power got me to a "Forced Upload by Key pressing" screen, but no recovery. Vol Down + Home + Power just kept looping me back to the battery with no SGS screen
This is from a UK model i9000 with 3 button disabled.
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Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..
That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.
ysandhu said:
Did U follow the exact sequence with charger plugged in ...
Then it may be just for I9000m Model... or just my phone..
It worked for me.. so i wanted to share it.. in case it helps other..
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8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
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So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.
Jordiharrison said:
That's not gonna help you if you flash a ROM in way that your phone wont boot to even the battery screen. I've done it, luckily my SGS is not locked out.
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I am sad to hear that.. So if i brick my phone.. and plug charger it won't even show me charging icon.. that sucks...
So i guess my method is useless anyways..
hol17 said:
So I release the power button and then... hold the power button? I'm confused.
Even if I wait the few seconds and release power, volume up, or any combination of buttons it just pops me back to the battery screen. No access to recovery.
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You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..
ysandhu said:
You just have to release the power button only when grey battery icon appear second time..
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Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.
share your frustration here
http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada
hol17 said:
Did that, just appears back to the battery screen.
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I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...
AllGamer said:
share your frustration here
http://www.facebook.com/samsungmobilecanada
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I already did that.. let's hope they do somthing..
ysandhu said:
I just tried again ..works for me all the time..
So u released the power button when second time battery icon appear ?? make sure you release power button before the battery icon disappear second time..
If no luck.. the only thing I can conclude is that Samsung has no consistency in hardware design...
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I did that..
Like I said before, It just appears back at the battery screen no matter how I time it.
Yep I tried that on my bell galaxy and didnt work either. I'm bringing it back. I can't connect it with kies on 3 computers and nothing running on the phone. It just says please wait... such BS software
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ysandhu said:
Hi,
Like some other members here, i also have three button issue with my phone. I have tried so many ways and results were inconsistent, it would work some time and will not work other time. But here is a procedure that is working for me always. Give it a try and see if it works for some of you.
1. Turn off the phone
2. Plug in charger (It does not matter even the charger was plugged in when u tuned off the phone.)
3. Wait for battery signal to appear the one with partial green fill.
4. At this point press home volume up and power button in sequence.
5. you will see SGS screen. Keep all the button presses at that time.
6. After some time battery icon will appear. this time it will be gray one with no green fill.
7. keep all button pressed. gray battery icon will disappear and will appear second time.
8. Wait for 1-2 second and before second time grey battery icon disappear release power button and keep home and battery button pressed.
9. wait for some good luck.. you should see recovery screen.
And it could be just me. but it works for me all the time.
Thanks
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Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..
ysandhu said:
Ok One more thing..
To get to recovery mode i have to use this sequence.. that i wrote in my first post..
...But I am good with download mode.. it kicks in when i use Home+Vol_Down+Power...
So do i have three button issue or not.. i am really confused..
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If you can get into download mode, you don't have any kind of 3 button issue. Your phone is fine, you just need to work on your timing in order to get into recovery mode.
There is nothing wrong with your phone.
Hey guys,
When I woke up today my phone had some serious issue.
I can turn the phone on and off with the power button, but when the phone is lit and I want to
lock the screen, the button does not work. I can hold it in and get to the power meny, but when
i just tap it, nothing happens...
Do any of you know why it occour? Havent done anything unusual...
Clearly the button works, because I can enter the Power meny...
/Thanks
vomitone said:
Hey guys,
When I woke up today my phone had some serious issue.
I can turn the phone on and off with the power button, but when the phone is lit and I want to
lock the screen, the button does not work. I can hold it in and get to the power meny, but when
i just tap it, nothing happens...
Do any of you know why it occour? Havent done anything unusual...
Clearly the button works, because I can enter the Power meny...
/Thanks
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are you trying to turn the screen off on lock screen? if so just double tap the screen
Is the phone stock or modded (rooted, custom ROM, etc.)?
Did you try to reboot device already?
Sent from HTC One m8, or maybe not anymore
redpoint73 said:
Is the phone stock or modded (rooted, custom ROM, etc.)?
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Its not rooted or anything, so i guess stock.
mr.loverlover said:
Did you try to reboot device already?
Sent from HTC One m8, or maybe not anymore
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Yes, the first thing I tried.
I'm not completely clear on the issue. If you just tap the power button while the screen is on, it should turn off the screen (which in turn also locks it). If holding the power button until you get the power menu, the choices should just be Power Off, Restart, and Airplane Mode. I don't think there is an option to lock screen on that menu on a stock ROM (and actually no custom ROMs that I know of).
Sorry for the delay on the answers.
It's not that i can't access the power menu, that works fine.
But if you want to lock your screen, you just tap the power buttom and that dosent work.
And I just found out that the screen NEVER shouts down!? It's always on.
When I reeboot the phone, the screen darkens, but all the icons on the desktop is visible and when i try
to tap the screen it acts like its off!?
Can't even think of whats wrong with this now.
The power buttom clearly works, but i can't lock or shout down the screen.
It's like its always on!?
I'm having this exact same issue.
My solution
Obviously this is much too late for the OP, but for anyone who might still stumble on this thread (it is still one of the top hits on Google for this issue), I got mine working again by rebooting the phone, after first disabling fast boot in the settings. (Settings > Power > Fast boot - I should note my phone is the HTC One Mini 2, but I assume the M8 isn't too different in this regard).
I had previously attempted rebooting from the power options (both restart and power off), but this hadn't fixed the problem.
AJCham42 said:
Obviously this is much too late for the OP, but for anyone who might still stumble on this thread (it is still one of the top hits on Google for this issue), I got mine working again by rebooting the phone, after first disabling fast boot in the settings. (Settings > Power > Fast boot - I should note my phone is the HTC One Mini 2, but I assume the M8 isn't too different in this regard).
I had previously attempted rebooting from the power options (both restart and power off), but this hadn't fixed the problem.
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The Fast boot option in Settings was removed from the M8 as of Lollipop.
Even when the M8 had this option, it did not effect "Restart" in power options. At least on the M8, restart is always a try restart; and Fast boot only affected the "power off" condition.
My tablet Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (SM-T805) screen went black. I can’t see the screen.
Touch also does not seem to work. However it’s on. it is receiving calls and other messages. It is connected to WiFi.
Power button, volume button are working but I can’t power off the device cause I can’t see the screen options.
When I plug in to the charging cable it vibrates but does not show anything on screen.
It didn’t drop and hit by anything…i have been using it for 3 months now. it just happened by itself or may be by some update that I don’t know.
Please help how to bring it back to life
Are you able to get into download or recovery? I've never heard of something like this before. Maybe go ahead and let it die and then plug it back in and see if you can get into download mode by holding home+power+volume down then re flash your stock firmware or whatever you were using. Or do home+power+volume up to get into recovery. If you still have stock recovery then you can just do a factory reset right from that but if your using something TWRP then your still going to need to flash something after wiping your data.
Not sure how else you can get it to shut off since you can't see it. Even knowing where the power menu is once you press the button it would still be tough to hit the right thing. I'd say let it die. Maybe someone else can come shed some light. Of course it could be a hardware problem as well. I'm leaning toward software still though.
If your still completely stock I'd say let it die and get into stock recovery. Home+power+volume up and then wipe data and do a factory reset. Now if the screen stays black after its off and you've plugged in the charging cable then I'd imagine there's a more a serious problem going on.
Yes I am waiting for battery to be completely drained out. I will try your method once the battery is completely dead.
thanks
Your welcome let me know how it goes. Will do my best to help.
I don't have my tab with me right now but can't you hold power button for 10 sec to force a reboot? All Android device I ever had could do that.
Steve.99 said:
I don't have my tab with me right now but can't you hold power button for 10 sec to force a reboot? All Android device I ever had could do that.
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Doest work on t805 holding powerbutton, just hold the buttons for download mode and that will force it to reset and prompt you to press volume down to cancel volume up to continue...hold for 30 seconds, and if nothing appears let go and just press volume up once, still no joy then pop back cover off and unclip and reclip battery if your brave, thats what i did before i new about this quicker way.
How to run the battery completely down..? its still active and on... though not showing anything on screen.
Is there any quicker way... ?
To do a hard-reset on these Samsung devices, you need to hold Power + Home + Volume Down until it reboots. On every other device it's just Power. Some it's Power+Home. For some reason Samsung likes to be different.
Or if you have previously enabled USB Debugging, you can plug it in to your computer and do an ADB Reboot.
Power + volume down + volume up works for me as reset.
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Power + volume down + volume up works for me as reset.
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Holy crap the dude is right....just tried that myself on t805, holding all 3 buttons at same time in top left corner power,vol dwn, vol, up forces a simple reset without dwnload mode rubbish.
My wife was typing and the screen froze, she pushed the power button was the reboot or power off box appeared. She selected reboot and the screen went dark and now nothing comes on no matter how long the power button or power + power up or power down is held. I plugged in the charger and the battery icon does not appear. Could the connection from the motherboard to the screen have come loose? It seems strange that it would die coincidentally after requesting a reboot. Another other suggestions before I try to sell it as a paperweight on Ebay?
lmacmil said:
My wife was typing and the screen froze, she pushed the power button was the reboot or power off box appeared. She selected reboot and the screen went dark and now nothing comes on no matter how long the power button or power + power up or power down is held. I plugged in the charger and the battery icon does not appear. Could the connection from the motherboard to the screen have come loose? It seems strange that it would die coincidentally after requesting a reboot. Another other suggestions before I try to sell it as a paperweight on Ebay?
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It depend on if you had TWRP Recovery installed on your tablet. Was this an original setup device or a custom ROM? If it was custom, you should have the necessary files to reinstall from scratch. If you know you do have TWRP Recovery installed (IIRC, it would not show up as an installed app) then to access it you need to push POWER, HOME button (middle front panel)and VOLUME +(up)at the same time! This will get you into recovery mode. Then, you would have to reinstall your custom ROM and gapps from backups. If you don't have these you may still be able to repair it via a Windows PC connection with the right files.
When you post probs you are having, the more info that you include, the better chance you will get a solution for it. I have three smp600 tabs, all configured the same way with multiple backups for each on SD cards as well as Google Drive cloud. So, I can have any tab restored fully in under an hour. Whatever you do, good luck, but it takes a lot to truly "brick" one! ;-DeanoD=
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Thanks. It was running stock Lollipop with no custom recovery. When I was taking the back off to see if a connection was loose I could hear audio but I did not find a loose connection so it's still dead.?
Hi guys,
since yesterday i have a weird issue with my samsung tablet. It won't turn on anymore. If I try a hard reset it does not react at all. I pressed The power + volume up as well as power+vol up+ home button for ages. If i try power + volume down it shows a display with
" warning!!! a custom OS can cause critical problems......... Volume up:continue Volume down: Cancel (restart phone) "
I've tried both options. If I hit vol down it just turn black again and nothing happens, if i press the up button the next screen tells me it's in download mode and i must not turn it off.
Since the screen stays on for ages it cannot be an batterie issue i guess. After a while i really did turn it off. But the problem persists.
Another important thing to mention. The day before i installed NordVPN and played a bit with it. Same on my iPad and my iPad had the very same issue the next day. Luckily the hard reset on the Ipad worked right away. It turned on again and i deleted the NordVPN.
Do you have any idea how to fix this, and maybe what caused it.
Thank you very much!!
Your in the S1 section not the S3 one, though what fixes an S1 boot problem most likely fixes an S3 as well, below is the link to the S3 section.
Good Luck.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s3
John.
sorry thought its for all galaxy tab s