Tab S 10.5 shut down - Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Moments ago my Tab S shut down after trying to exit a game. Suddenly the game froze, screen went dark for a minute while the capacitive buttons stayed lit and gave feedback. Then it was dead. Kept pressing the power button but it would not turn on. After doing some searching I tried pressing the power button while pressing volume up and fortunately it turned on again. I did notice the back was a bit warm but not HOT. Anyone have a clue as to what may have happened?

Funnily enough the exact same thing happened on my s5 when trying to exit from an app. Only happened once, but could never figure out why.
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I had my original tab freeze on me several times. Got a replacement from John Lewis'. No problems with new one. See if u can get yours exchanged. It might be a batch issue

Thanks guys. I couldn't replicate the issue, even after opening up a few games and leaving them all open at the same time. I should be ok.

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For the past couple days I've been having issues with my power button. It seems that, for about half the day, the power button will not work at all. I can't bring the screen back up or shut the screen off. Also every now and then the power menu that comes up when you hold the button down would just come up by itself. The other half of the day it seems to work just fine. For now I've just set it up so the screen never turns off, but obviously that drains power and will make me butt-dial everybody. I took it into a Sprint store but of course it started working like 10 mins before I got there so all I got was a "failed to reproduce problem" thing. After much haggling on the phone with them today I convinced them to send me a replacement, although it's backordered. Has anyone else had an issue like this with theirs? I searched around and couldn't find much. Does anyone know a way I can lock the screen without turning it off? That would come in handy while I wait for the replacement.

Power off/power on it's own (Alpha 3 CM9)

So A few days ago my phone started to turn off and turn back on randomly, Its hit or miss, Just starting to get annoying. Has anyone ran into this? Pretty much when my phone is off and I hit the power button it will go to the screen as if I'm holding the power button to do a screen shot. I'm pretty sure it's not my power button sticking. I think there is just something else going on.
Also when it does it when my charger is hooked up it will keep starting up and turning off till I unplug it.
I wasn't sure if it was a app I had downloaded so I deleted the last few apps I had downloaded, But still will turn on and off.
Anyone had anything?
pbrbent said:
So A few days ago my phone started to turn off and turn back on randomly, Its hit or miss, Just starting to get annoying. Has anyone ran into this? Pretty much when my phone is off and I hit the power button it will go to the screen as if I'm holding the power button to do a screen shot. I'm pretty sure it's not my power button sticking. I think there is just something else going on.
Also when it does it when my charger is hooked up it will keep starting up and turning off till I unplug it.
I wasn't sure if it was a app I had downloaded so I deleted the last few apps I had downloaded, But still will turn on and off.
Anyone had anything?
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I was having the same thing happening with cm9. I went ahead and tried out BLUKUBAN rom..very sweet one at that. better battery life. Try it out.
Well I updated to alpha 4. Still have the the random power off like I'm holding the power button down. So I'm thinking its something internal.
Guess ill unroot and take it back to sprint. Dang it!
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I'm having the exact same issues. It started 2 days ago. I'm watching my phone turn off and on, on its own right now while plugged in.
Are you sure its not a bad power button? I found that even if i barely tap the power button without fully pressing it in, it will trigger a button press action, or a button hold action.
Please update if you resolve.

[Q] Screen doesn't turn on!

Dears, help me please!
I have my nexus 7 for 3 months. It was working pretty fine before... BUT... last thursday I left it charging overnight, I woke up turned the tablet alarme off and put it on a backpack to travel.
When I tried to turn it on the screen just did nothing!! The strange thing is: when I got mail it notifies me... the pulse light is active but the screen doesn't show.
I tried to charge it, hold the power button, hold the power + volume down buttons and nothing solved.
Anyone has/had the same problem?
I have the same problem. It happened a couple times already but I could not figure out why it happens. When I push the power button long enough it just restarts. It happens only when its laying around a couple hours like over night.
The tablet returned from the repair.
It seems like they changed the mainboard. Sadly there was something behind the camera glas and there were scratches on the screen. So they had to send it in again. Then they also changed the screen. All this took about 3 weeks.
I suggest claim for repair its definitely a hardware issue. Now my Nexus is running flawless and I am waiting for the Lollipop update.
You could also just try holding volume down + power for about 30 seconds. I've had a couple of freezes before where holding down the power button did nothing. But, holding down power + volume down worked. This is assuming you weren't flashing or doing something else, this is only if you were using the tablet as normal and it just suddenly won't turn on.

[Q] Please help! Random power off won't boot!

Okay I will try to sum this up. My S3 was working fine and everything randomly I noticed issues with battery calibration It would be 100% then I would calibrate it and then unplug and then I'd instantly drop to 85%. Thought It was a battery issue and made a point to get a new one later. Then it kept working for another month or so then It started really screwing up the shutdown menu would randomly pop up and I'd back out of it.
Then randomly 3 seconds later the phone reboots. And it would keep doing that randomly I thought it might be a power button issue. Then as time goes on it got really bad to where it would simply reboot and not make it past the bootloader, It would not "reboot" more like a complete shutdown then I'd have to power it again and have it do the same thing. Seeing how I could not even make it past the bootloader I got a new battery, waited a week for it and then I put it in and the same issue happened. It would not get past the bootloader.
So I kept trying and trying and trying and it finally booted past that. And it stayed on for a whole night. I did everything on it I normally would and it was working great. Then the battery was getting low so I plug it in and was going to calibrate it after it was charged, I go back to it and it's dead again won't get past the bootloader once again. I'm completely out of ideas on how to fix this I pop'd off the button and blew in there and the button seems fine and everything still no change. I also can not get into recovery. It trys and loads but then shuts off. Anyway if anyone has any ideas on what this is or how to fix please help! I need my phone back! Thank you.
I'm running MOAR Lite version.
UPDATE: Took the phone apart and took a close look at the button it looks 100% fine...I saw a video on youtube that requires you to complete tear the button off and it works. But I don't know if the button is my main cause of this issue or if it will actually work. Some says it works, some says it does nothing...Please let me know thanks...
UPDATE 2: It will show that battery with spinning circle in it for like 1 second then turn off again. (When it is plugged in)
That's odd. But when it comes to the power button, dismantling and what not 90% of the time will show 0 issues. It will look perfectly fine when it's not. You playing with the power button I assume were pressing hard and normally to try testing it. It's a common issues on this version of the S3 to have faulty power button and you would need to get it repaired. Odly even slightly atmospheric changes can cause it to act different at different points. Some days it works fine, other days a very slight brushing over can cause it to screw up and trigger a manual shut down (holding for like 10 or 15 seconds).
Assuming that it is the power button, or to try, just do a variation of things to the power button itself. Use your finger nail to jiggle it around with different pressures. During boot if it shuts off, it could be the power button internally stuck, just jiggle it around.
This is all I can think of unless you bring it in to get repaired.
I was encountering the exact same problem. I would try to get into download mode and it would sit at the "Downloading" screen for about 5-7 seconds then the display would go blank. It won't make it into recovery either. Based on the above recommendation I took the whole phone apart and sprayed a lot of compressed air directly on the power button mechanism and the plastic case pressing the button in. I didn't see anything broken with the button when I did that.
It seems to be working now, I can boot into my Rom. Don't know how long this fix will last.

[Q] Galaxy S3 Hyper-sensitive Power Button

Good Morning everyone. I am new to Android Central. I have never had any issues with my G3 prior to yesterday. I was using the phone all day no issues and then suddenly I went to press the power button to check my email and barn it rebooted so I thought it was just a random crash and was ready to move on. When it came back up (restarted) initially I was able to access it. Once the screen dimmed and turned off I tried to press the power button to turn it back on and it vibrated and rebooted again. I tried removing the battery for a couple minutes places it back in and then trying again. Same result. I removed the case and the back panel and noticed that simply putting my finger anywhere near the power button even on the black plastic near it caused it to be activated. Most of the time by the time it reboot it shuts back down. There was a couple times I was able to keep it running. Now being one of those. I backed up my files and did some reading but wanted to get some feedback specific to my situation. Any help would be wonderful and please let me know if you need more information I would be happy to provide.
Sounds like your power button is starting to fail and needs to be replaced, mine did the same thing. You can usually get that fixed relatively cheap.

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