i747 had a super sensitive power button, so after reading some threads about the issue, I decided to remove it. After I did, I booted up the phone and it goes through the boot process, but as soon as the phone gets to the lock screen it powers off. I'm running CM11 and have tried a factory reset, but no change. Any suggestions?
Possibly unrelated, but when I put the phone back together and put the battery in, the flash went off. . .
Did the device try to turn on when you put the battery back in?
If not, flash back to stock and see if you're still having problems.
Could be the battery is old and at its eol too though.
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So, last night I was out and about - just having a good time. Noticed that the battery on my GSM Galaxy Nexus was getting low. Went "Meh, wasn't the first time it's died." It got to 1% battery power and shut-off, like it normally does. Me being who I am, I turned it back on to see just how much more juice I could get out of it.
Phone booted up alright. Finished the boot animation, and then a couple seconds later turned off.. not a big deal. I get home, plug it in, and the charge screens cycle..... and then they cycle again. And again. And again. Basically just looping. I turn the phone ON, finishes the boot animation and... turns off again riight away? Goes back to the charge screen loop.
I'm not talking about the regular charge screen. After the battery gets 'filled' twice, it completely restarts. Black screen for 2 or so seconds, and then it goes through the charge animations as it would if you had just pluggied it in. I CAN get into bootloader, but that's about it. I'm just curious.. has anyone seen this before? Or know what my problem might be?
I'm unable to turn USB Debugging on in the system settings, so I'm at a loss as to how I can fix this issue WITHOUT bringing it into Bell.
Try going into recovery and wiping cache and dalvik. If that doesn't work reflash your rom
My phone is completely stock (I reflashed it to to the stock yakju? I believe it was when I found out Samsung had screwed people off the google update path.. so I can't get into recovery mode. It just shows the broken android. It's all been re-locked, and since then, my laptop has died. So I no longer have the ABD/Samsung drivers setup. Which was a pain to get going the first time..
i.vt3c.d0hc said:
My phone is completely stock (I reflashed it to to the stock yakju? I believe it was when I found out Samsung had screwed people off the google update path.. so I can't get into recovery mode. It just shows the broken android. It's all been re-locked, and since then, my laptop has died. So I no longer have the ABD/Samsung drivers setup. Which was a pain to get going the first time..
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The "Broken android" IS stock recovery. I believe that when you push Volume Up seeing that image it takes you to the stock recovery menu. But you can always reflash Yakju or any other ROM through fastboot mode (see the tutorials here on the forum).
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I get home, plug it in, and the charge screens cycle..... and then they cycle again. And again. And again. Basically just looping. I turn the phone ON, finishes the boot animation and... turns off again riight away? Goes back to the charge screen loop.
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Turn it off. Leave it charging for a few hours before turning it on.
i.vt3c.d0hc said:
[snip] I'm unable to turn USB Debugging on in the system settings, so I'm at a loss as to how I can fix this issue WITHOUT bringing it into Bell.
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You do not need to have USB debugging enabled to use fastboot.
i.vt3c.d0hc said:
My phone is completely stock (I reflashed it to to the stock yakju? I believe it was when I found out Samsung had screwed people off the google update path.. so I can't get into recovery mode. It just shows the broken android. It's all been re-locked, and since then, my laptop has died. So I no longer have the ABD/Samsung drivers setup. Which was a pain to get going the first time..
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It doesn't take long at all to install the drivers. Look for a thread with "universal" in the title. I think it is in GN General. Once you do install the fastboot driver, download the fastboot.exe file and reflash the stock ROM.
Diger36 said:
The "Broken android" IS stock recovery. I believe that when you push Volume Up seeing that image it takes you to the stock recovery menu. But you can always reflash Yakju or any other ROM through fastboot mode (see the tutorials here on the forum).
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It's volume up and the power button.
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The problem I have is that the charge animation doesn't change... i.e. It'll constantly refill the battery and all, but it always starts from the bottom (While when a phone is say... half charged, the little battery is half filled and the animation continues.
I'm not sure it's even charging at all.
Update time!
Got it into the stock recovery. Wiped the cache and all of my data. Rebooted, and.... it turns on! No longer reboots on regular startup. That's the good news. So at least it's somewhat useable now..
Now for the BAD news.
-It still does that retarded charging bootloop that doesn't seem to get me anywhere
-....When it's on. Like, running, it doesn't charge. Nadda. Zip. Zilch. Computer, wall charger, android dock, nothing. It just won't charge when it's on. However when I got it to power on, it said I had 14% remaining - which means it was likely charging inside the Bootloader, as I had it on that for quite a bit.
I think this just went from a software to a hardware issue. Thoughts?
i.vt3c.d0hc said:
Update time!
Got it into the stock recovery. Wiped the cache and all of my data. Rebooted, and.... it turns on! No longer reboots on regular startup. That's the good news. So at least it's somewhat useable now..
Now for the BAD news.
-It still does that retarded charging bootloop that doesn't seem to get me anywhere
-....When it's on. Like, running, it doesn't charge. Nadda. Zip. Zilch. Computer, wall charger, android dock, nothing. It just won't charge when it's on. However when I got it to power on, it said I had 14% remaining - which means it was likely charging inside the Bootloader, as I had it on that for quite a bit.
I think this just went from a software to a hardware issue. Thoughts?
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Power down phone, do a long battery pull, place it inside again, let it charge for a few hours without powering it on, when it is fully charged (or after a few hours) pull battery again and then take charger out the phone. After a few minutes, place battery inside phone again and start it up without the charger.
Hope that works.
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And that might fix this charging bootloop? Because the LCD doesn't even turn off..
i.vt3c.d0hc said:
And that might fix this charging bootloop? Because the LCD doesn't even turn off..
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You could always try a new battery
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+1 for the new battery thought.
Battery test
I am having a similar problem, I get the boot loop.
Difference is that I had started with a new battery so that could be your problem or unrelated. I went to a mobile shop yesterday and they let me use a new battery to see if the loop would start. It did not so there seems to be at least one other failure path. I have avoided a factory reset as I was hoping to pull some pictures but coming to the realization that I will have to try factory reset as a last resort
I posted to this thread #192
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1490815
My Galaxy Nexus phone from WIND went into a reboot loop yesterday. It had been charged to 98%, used to make a call and then put away. Wireless was enabled. Noticed vibration periodically and say it was rebooting every 6 - 7 seconds. Pulled battery to stop reboot. Saw references to fully charged battery via USB stops reboot loop so tried that. Battery voltage was 4.17V and still went into reboot loop.
Tried to boot into safe mode but still goes into a loop
I went into recovery mode and tried all options but factory reset because I am hoping to recover some pictures
reboot system now
apply update from cache (but did not have an update to install as only options were ../ lost+found/ recovery and when I selected these was in a loop as well)
wipe cache partition
Can't tell what version of Andorid I have as the phone never finishes booting.
Boot console gives the following information
Product Name – tuna
Variant – maguro
HW version – 9
Bootloader version – PRIMEKK14
Baseband version – I9250UGKL1
Have installed SMS backup because I was planning to do a backup after a trip. Also have two GPS tracker apps installed.
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I have avoided a factory reset as I was hoping to pull some pictures but coming to the realization that I will have to try factory reset as a last resort
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If you can boot into recovery, you may be able to get your pictures off your device.
1) Make sure you have the drivers for your device properly installed on your computer.
2) Download the attachment and unzip it to a directory on your computer.
3) Open a command prompt in the same directory.
4) Reboot your device into recovery and plug into your computer.
5) Make sure your computer sees your device by typing: adb devices
6) Pull the data off your device by typing: adb pull /data/media
Note: depending on how much data you had on /sdcard, this could take a while, so be patient.
so i decided to flash hyperdrive rom to my phone. i had like 26% battery and i took the risk to flash the rom while charging the phone with cwm. when the rom was done flashing, the phone booted but was stuck on the first hyperdrive logo, not the animated one. so i turned off the phone and then turned it back on. but the phone didnt turn on and after pressing the power button for 10 sec approximately, the charging battery logo showed for a sec then the phone turned back off. need help plz !!
pull battery out for a few minutes and if that does not work, then i recommend just using odin to unroot and flash stock then re-rooting your device. just make sure to have it plugged in to so it charges at the same time. then reflashing hyperdrive with the battery fully charged.
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so i decided to flash hyperdrive rom to my phone. i had like 26% battery and i took the risk to flash the rom while charging the phone with cwm. when the rom was done flashing, the phone booted but was stuck on the first hyperdrive logo, not the animated one. so i turned off the phone and then turned it back on. but the phone didnt turn on and after pressing the power button for 10 sec approximately, the charging battery logo showed for a sec then the phone turned back off. need help plz !!
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This would have nothing to do with the rom or flahs really because honestly 26% is enough time to flash any rom. This sounds like a hardware issue but maybe not.
As previously suggested does doing a battery pull for at least a few minutes let the phone boot up at all ? If so just odin. If not its hardware dead
Did you clear data/cache/Davlik after flashing? Doesn't sound like a power problem, but you can always charge the phone while it's off. If you cannot get back to recovery, there's always Odin/Heimdall to flash your phone back to stock.
Phone's been slowly giving me more and more issues. Today I was using it fine, turned off the screen, a bit later, tried turning it on and nothing. This has been a common occurrence, about once a day I have to do a battery pull or plug it in to make the screen turn on, then all is normal. Battery pull got it to boot to the splash screen, but then nothing. Plugged it in, and nothing. Left it plugged it in for about an hour, tried again, still nothing. Unplugged and tried powering on, nothing. Pulled the battery again, and could only get to the splash screen. I'm running JB Sourcery, and have the one selected where the apple rots and then it spells out droid. I get through that and then it does nothing else.
Info: just tried again, had to pull the battery, then I could get the google logo to pop up, but that was it.
Info the 2nd: plugged it in for 2 hours, the graphic showed it fully charged. So I tried booting it and again, same response..gets through the boot splash screen, but goes black after. Pressing power button does nothing, doesn't even get the charge graphic to show up.
Info the 3rd: I left it be this time thinking maybe it was just really laggy or something, but after 15 minutes, still nothing. But I can feel a bit of heat as if it is on.
Info the 4th: I can get into bootloader and recovery fine. I was even able to make a backup (only thing I could think to do in there that would take some time and not risk screwing it up more) So it's not a battery issue, seems to be something with the rom.
Please help
Even though the phone is rooted and custom rom, can I take it back to Verizon? I've only had the phone since December. If I could do that, is there any way to get all the pics off of it first?
try to flash stock image from google
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try to flash stock image from google
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Silly question, but how would I go about getting that? And can I get it to the phone without the phone being able to boot
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Silly question, but how would I go about getting that? And can I get it to the phone without the phone being able to boot
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deja vu.....million times.
with a little search i found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895
Was able to wipe data/cache and re-flash the rom. Seems to be working for now. I think I'll go back to stock (thanks for the link samersh) and see if I'm still having issues.
Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .
Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.
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Didn't find anything similar on here so I had to post. My T999 no longer boots except for a vibrate when the battery is removed and re-inserted. Occasionally it will get to the CM boot logo and then the screen goes off. If I time the button presses right, I get to the Download screen but before I can hit the Up button to confirm download mode the screen shuts off. This happened all of a sudden yesterday, the last activity being to shut off the Alarm. Tried charging but it will not get past the initial battery icon before the screen goes off. Tried replacing the battery but that didn't help. I also tried to follow the debrick instructions but it didn't help. I was running Vanir AOSP 4.4.4 with no issues until yesterday. The device does not register when connected to the PC using USB and the charger LED does not light up when plugged into charger/PC. My feeling is that something went wrong with the boot but I am unable to get into any usable screen to do anything. I had managed to brick a Samsung Vibrant before but I didn't have to struggle as much to debrick and ODIN back to stock. Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm now without a phone .
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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
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Mine is also acting like that. It wont boot to any rom even stock ones. But i noticed that if i connect my charger it will boot to the homescreen. Sounds like a battery issue right? I also thought that but when i go to recovery, it did not shutdown after leaving it for a couple of minutes. I'm also baffled why it wont boot. I'll try to borrow other battery to test if it still the same.
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Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)
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Boot download mode and flash stock or root66 firmware with Odin. (You may need to factory reset too)
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Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.
This is pretty strange. Woke up to my phone with the Galaxy s3 boot logo. And it wouldn't go past it. Tried flashing different backups I had but none of them let me go past the boot logo. Flashed CM10 since my version of TWRP recovery is so old that it can't flash anything higher up, and it goes past the boot logo finally after 2 hours then goes to the cyanogen boot logo but doesn't go past that. I'm going to try with ODIN tonight.
Seems very strange that there are others that had this happen to them to. My phone has never done this before, and it happened randomly.
What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!
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Done this using root66 but still the same. Now my phone went to worse. It wont get past the S3 logo in the boot screen and just shuts down followed by a vibrate. But if i connect my charger, it will continue and run as normal. My suspect might be a bad battery but the thing is it doesn't auto shutdown when is download mode or in recovery mode. Will try to borrow other battery and update if this fixes the problem.
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Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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What does it mean if my phone doesn't boot past the logo with an odin to root66 file?
Edit: Nevermind seems to have worked... for now.
Edit 2: Okay so now it's stuck in an infinite loop where it boots past the logo, shows the android mascot then does an android is upgrading app 1 of 169 then goes back all over again. This is fun! Can anyone help?
Edit 3: Okay so I had to do a factory reset. Got it working now. Starting to get sick of the things I have to do to get updated firmware. Samsung needs to get their crap together!
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Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!
DocHoliday77 said:
Just for future reference, factory resetting solves about 98% of boot hangs.
Still for both of you, id take this as a sign that you should make sure your backups are up to date. If something is failing you'll be glad you did!
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Yeah factory reset unfortunately didn't work for me when I needed it before I had to ODIN to root66. But I was able to do a nandroid after I couldn't get it to boot and extract my sms from Titanium backup. What an awesome app, super thankful to that dev for making it.
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Hopefully its just the battery.
Download mode may work because of how the battery reports to the os. If its going bad and reporting incorrectly that its low, it may trigger a shutdown. Whereas in download mode the os isn't running so its not reading the battery info the same way. Just a guess.
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Turns out it was the battery sir. I've tested it with another battery from 2 different phones and it worked fine. While the phone i tested with the defective battery didn't event get passed the samsung logo. I've suspected it might be having the low voltage causing the phone to shut down.
Anyways, after that i bought a new battery immediately and everything seems ok. thanks for the reply doc.
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Remove battery snd put back in. Does the device try to turn on by itself? If so you probably have a bad power button.
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I can confirm that it is likely a bad power button, I have tried everything including dismantling it and seeing if I could dislodge any dirt that may be causing the problem but it didn't work. Looks like I have to find a local repair shop or ebay to get it resolved. Anyone recommend a good place to get this fixed. Funds are limited
Im not sure exactly how difficult the repair is most people seem so do it themselves and have given indications that its pretty easy. You can find the part online for a few bucks.
This just started happening and at first i thought it was my case maybe pressing against the buttons causing it. But ive taken the case off and it still does it. Boots into twrp everytime, i have to use the Reboot > System option within twrp to get it fully booted. Ive not changed anything recently causing this. Rather has me stumped.
EDIT had to be a 1 off, stopped doing it with the case off. It was the case.
Alright I take it back, device just did it again without the case. Pretty sure the button isn't stuck it doesn't randomly turn off, or volume change. It does it when I tap reboot. Just bam goes into TWRP
Well, clean flash whatever rom you're running or flash if back to stock. It it still does it, you got a hardware problem..
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