While running CM11 with no problems, the phone blacked out. No combination of the three buttons brings it to life. I can't get a connection to adb as in the past. Win8 (not adb) says it's a bad USB connection. I've tried everything I can think of, but no luck. This is the first time I think I may have created a true brick. Any help would be appreciated.
I couldn't put this in the original development forum because I don't have enough posts.
Plug your phone into the charger that came with the phone, plugged into the wall, not a usb port. Leave it plugged in, don't touch it at all for a day, or overnight if you really can't wait. After that, try all the button combinations again.
No change. I plugged it in for nine hours and still not responding. I guess the battery level of 45% was probably accurate before it blacked out.
When I plug in to try to get adb, the windows msg that shows is: "The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it."
I'll plug it back into the wall and leave it for 24 hours. Anything else I might try?
Thanks for the help.
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No change. I plugged it in for nine hours and still not responding. I guess the battery level of 45% was probably accurate before it blacked out.
When I plug in to try to get adb, the windows msg that shows is: "The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned, and Windows does not recognize it."
I'll plug it back into the wall and leave it for 24 hours. Anything else I might try?
Thanks for the help.
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If the phone recognizes your plugging something in, all hope might not be lost. Whatever button combos your trying try doing them but holding them longer, like several minutes. If nothing works, call HTC. The phone was released in Feb. so there's no way your 1 year warranty is up. Yes rooting void's your warranty, but if the phone is a brick they won't be able to tell you did anything fishy, just lie to them
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If the phone recognizes your plugging something in, all hope might not be lost. Whatever button combos your trying try doing them but holding them longer, like several minutes. If nothing works, call HTC. The phone was released in Feb. so there's no way your 1 year warranty is up. Yes rooting void's your warranty, but if the phone is a brick they won't be able to tell you did anything fishy, just lie to them
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I guess after all these years it's time I bricked something I couldn't unbrick. It was strange when it blacked out because I wasn't doing anything to it at the time.
The good news is I can exchange it - and I didn't have to lie about anything. So within a week, I should be back putting imo.
Thanks again for your help to me and everyone in this forum.
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I guess after all these years it's time a bricked something I couldn't unbrick. It was strange when it blacked out because I wasn't doing anything to it at the time.
The good news is I can exchange it - and I didn't have to lie about anything. So within a week, I should be back putting imo.
Thanks again for your help to me and everyone in this forum.
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Glad to hear everything worked out :laugh:
I was in the same situation. None of the three button combos would work. If you can carefully remove the back and pull out the battery cable real quick it'll suddenly allow you into recovery..... And its easier than it seems. The back comes off like any other phone. Its just a lot tighter of an assemble.
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I was in the same situation. None of the three button combos would work. If you can carefully remove the back and pull out the battery cable real quick it'll suddenly allow you into recovery..... And its easier than it seems. The back comes off like any other phone. Its just a lot tighter of an assemble.
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Did it go back on with no problem, did peeling that off ruin the adhesiveness?
The stuff inside is glued pretty good. It unglued a tiny little bit but you can access that battery plug without pulling it all out and by only pulling the back piece off halfway, pretty easily. I had to do it a couple times actually and I still have a well intact phone. Everything clicks right back into place.
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So let me see if I have this right: You took off the back cover, pulled the battery plug and then put it back. You were then able to power on your phone (boot into recovery). Is that right? That's like working with soft bricked phones with batteries that can be replaced. Nice!
This reminds me of an iPhone fix where the phone wouldn't boot up and was detected by the PC but seemed as if stuck in DFU mode. They took it and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes and it killed the battery completely removing the factor of having to take out the battery.
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This reminds me of an iPhone fix where the phone wouldn't boot up and was detected by the PC but seemed as if stuck in DFU mode. They took it and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes and it killed the battery completely removing the factor of having to take out the battery.
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Who is they, and why did they put your IPhone in the freezer lmao?
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Who is they, and why did they put your IPhone in the freezer lmao?
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Lml, YouTube users who were running into that issue during the initial iOS7 release, with the BSOD being one of many issues and nah not my iP5. I been Android since day G1. Lol
The freezer trick drains the cells in the battery extremely quick so you don't have to wait for your phone to die from standby which nowadays lasts days; blessing and curse I guess . Not more than 10 minutes though for a complete drain.
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My T-989 has never been able to stay shut down if the charger is plugged in. I shut it off and don't plug in the charger it stays off. I shut it down and plug in, or plug in and shut down, either way, and it immediately it turns itself on. I knew the that this would be a problem somehow when I noticed it but, no one (no one as in thread replies to similar problem) seemed to think it was a problem. Well, I was using my phone as a hot spot for my laptop as I do pretty often and this time I ran the battery down to about 7% before I realized just how low it was. I had to finish what I was doing on the laptop before disconnecting the phone. As I finished and started to go into settings to turn off the hotspot option the phone shut itself off. I then plugged in the charger and the phone did it's little trick and turned itself on instantly. Being that it has no charge left in the battery, it shut itself down. And because it doesn't stay turned off when plugged in, it turns itself back on. So the cycle begins. It won't charge up because it keeps cycling. And it keeps cycling because it doesn't allow itself to sleep while plugged in. I need to somehow charge the battery outside of the phone I guess. But what about a fix for the never sleep bug? Do other Roms allow sleep while charging? How can I charge the battery other than the obvious of using another SII or wiring the battery contacts directly to a charger with the mini usb cut off? Will a charged battery solve the problem ? Or is it a soft brick and I need to Odin and flash a new Rom? How come nobody could foresee this "dog chasing its tail" scenario when the phones don't sleep when plugged in? I need to resolve this asap. And as I always do say, Thanks in advance for your help everyone on XDA.
Maybe hotpot app issue or bug. Do you think you could reflash without the app. Personally I've never have heard of anything like this but thats why this site is for. To help one another get the most out of our device.
I'm no dev not computer genius, and pls understand that what I'm giving is "my" opinion. I could be wrong or even maybe a chance to be right.
With that said, why not try to get the phone on cmw and do a darkside
Cache wipe and maybe that could help ur permissions. And maybe even fix ur prob, another idea was to wipe ur battery stats. Also on advance mode in cmw. It could be endless factors that have caused this issue. I know its not a lot of help but hopefully I'm pointing at he right road for u to fix your device
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Thanks datrapstar. I first have to get the battery charged somehow. And even then the only thing I can do is USB jig into download. It stays in download when I remove the jig, but as soon as I connect a cable to it from the laptop or charger it starts the on off loop. So,????
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And your doing the 3button combo? It should automatic start booting into download mode. I don't know exactly how to do the jig. You may wanna pm "all gamer" being that he's the one I seen posting about it, and ask him if he can give u a lil guidance.
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Also, are u capable of going into a retail tmo?, maybe they can let u charge up there on one of their display devices. Its at no cost to them. And sometimes u find one of the cool sales reps that is willing to go above and beyond. Its the best I good bro, sorry
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efforts that aren't in vain.
I'll start by letting you (datrapstar) know I appreciate your input. It is certainly welcomed . The jig I'm talking about is a plug - in (mini USB) device that jumps, or crosses two of the circuits of the female USB plug on your phone. It instantly puts your phone into download mode. Rather than the two or three button method, which in some instances won't work, the jig always ,99% of the time,works even if you have a unresponsive, almost bricked device. All that power for $10 plus shipping from MobileTechVideo,the guys who can modify your phone with the famous Unbrickable Modification. Okay, back to the issues at hand, my hand, to be exact.
I do have access to a TMo store, being that I live in " Lower Beverly Hills " we even have a valet parking lot across the way. I'm just fu##ing with ya Bro. But yeah, I may do just that to charge the battery. And I have a girl that works at one of the TMo retails that I use who has already gone above and beyond the call of duty for me that I may have to pay a visit to. I didn't have time to do anything today about my SGII, and fortunately I have my Captivate that I use as my business phone to keep me connected to everyone during this time of phone aggravation. I will keep posting with my progress toward a resolution, and I will gladly accept anymore input sent my way that might steer me towards a final solution. Oh, and sorry for the long, and wordy posts. (Not really) I like to write, and don't practice "textphonics" abbreviations or acronyms. Later Bro.
No doubt then ,hope it all works out for the best for u. I'll keep checking in on the tread and see how ur making out. And I'll also try doing a lil more research in any resolutions of the matter. Good luck:thumbup:
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Cool. Talk again later.
Got it working
I got it working Thursday. The phone finally decided that it was gonna stay shut down and the battery recharged. I knew I could get it running after that. I probably did a few things that didn't need to be done but, I'm still new to this. I wiped everything (almost), Dalvick, Data, Battery, Cache, Factory Wipe and Reset. I probably forgot some. I Odin the .tar/md5 file and then rebooted. I just want to know how to fix the phone from not shutting off and staying off if the charger is plugged in, and which custom ROM I should try now ? I'm back to rooted, stock, Gingerbread 2.3.6 UVKL1, Baseband version UVLE1. Any ideas?
I'm on infamous 2.8 right now and I can't complain about it at all. 27+hrs battle life and thats with light use. As for the other issues the only thing I can think off it was just a bad download.
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Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
So you can't get into CWM or TWRP? And what Galaxy S3 Variant are you using?
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Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ii it possible you may have a bad battery? How new is it?(not that age of it matters) Also, do you have a case on the phone? Check to make sure the power button is not stuck. If you can get to boot logo, then its not dead-dead. If you've had your phone for awhile, double check the battery terminals are not oxidized. Unlikley, but worth checking and maybe check battery wih voltage meter if you have access to one. Then charge it overnight and check it again. One last thing to try is plug it in with the battery out and see if that does anything. Have you flashed anything lately? Modem? Scripts?
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I have taken the battery out and plugged the phone straight into the computer and all that i get is a red light where the notification light is and then it disappears.
As for age, its a little over a year old.
I wasnt doing any flashing at the time, it just went kaput right after a phone call.
I had a mophie case on it, but not right now. I guess ill take it a part when i can and throw som alcohol on the battery button to see if it loosens it up. But other than that, I'm at a loss.
Not trying to pay $80 for a craigslister either.
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axel4401 said:
Hello everyone.
I have been using Tasks ROM for a while now. Last night my phone had a random reboot and other than that, no troubles.
Well about 20 minutes ago, my phone just turned off and will NOT come back on at all. I have done nothing different, cant get in to get a logcat or lastkmsg. It will not even boot up to the samsung screen.
It will vibrate when I plug it in or take out the battery and reput it in.
The only response I am getting is taking everything out (batter/sim/sd) and plugging it into my comp. The response is a Red light in the notification LED and a short vibrate, then nothing.
I get a Samsung logo if I just pull battery and reinsert.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ii it possible you may have a bad battery? How new is it?(not that age of it matters) Also, do you have a case on the phone? Check to make sure the power button is not stuck. If you can get to boot logo, then its not dead-dead. If you've had your phone for awhile, double check the battery terminals are not oxidized. Unlikley, but worth checking and maybe check battery wih voltage meter if you have access to one. Then charge it overnight and check it again. One last thing to try is plug it in with the battery out and see if that does anything. Have you flashed anything lately? Modem? Scripts?
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Man, I don't know. Sounded like a charging issue at first, but looking I'm not so sure now. Anything stuck in your power slot? Maybe try leaving battery out overnight and see if it clears anything. If it starts to boot I would go right to recovery and try flashing something. I would be concernedabout going straight to download mode and using oOdin cause of it does during the flash that is really bad...
Can you get into download mode? Pull battery plug in USB and hold volume down and home buttons I think... when you plug USB in to computer does Odin recognize it at all?
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I just started having the same issue. I have a an ATT S3 running the newest Hyperdrive. Mine wasnt doing a random reset, but it seemed like it has been turning itself off. Totally intermittent, i couldnt pinpoint the cause.
Then just today when i went to see if i had any messages and the phone was off again (i had about a 60-75% charge) I hit the power button a few times and now i am getting the symptoms described above.
When i try to go into TWRP, i get the blue text at the top left of the screen, sometimes i make it to the first hyperdrive screen, then it goes black.
When I go to download I can get to the hit up or down screen, i hit up to go into download, i get to the next screen then it goes black again.
I did leave the battery out for about 15minutes and no dice. I even tried to leave it on the charger thinking i lost all charge or something.
I am just a mere user, but i have always been able to tinker around enough not to bother the devs and get my way out of these situations, but I think i am stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
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I just started having the same issue. I have a an ATT S3 running the newest Hyperdrive. Mine wasnt doing a random reset, but it seemed like it has been turning itself off. Totally intermittent, i couldnt pinpoint the cause.
Then just today when i went to see if i had any messages and the phone was off again (i had about a 60-75% charge) I hit the power button a few times and now i am getting the symptoms described above.
When i try to go into TWRP, i get the blue text at the top left of the screen, sometimes i make it to the first hyperdrive screen, then it goes black.
When I go to download I can get to the hit up or down screen, i hit up to go into download, i get to the next screen then it goes black again.
I did leave the battery out for about 15minutes and no dice. I even tried to leave it on the charger thinking i lost all charge or something.
I am just a mere user, but i have always been able to tinker around enough not to bother the devs and get my way out of these situations, but I think i am stuck. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you!
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Maybe a stuck power button? Try cleaning it out a little. .. sounds like it's rebooting itself.
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Maybe a stuck power button? Try cleaning it out a little. .. sounds like it's rebooting itself.
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I am trying that, it doesn't seem like there is anything in there, but you never know.
If the power button was stuck on, wouldn't the phone keep trying to restart? Or no?
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I am trying that, it doesn't seem like there is anything in there, but you never know.
If the power button was stuck on, wouldn't the phone keep trying to restart? Or no?
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I believe so, unless you pull the battery. In fact pull battery plug into usb and go into down load mode and see if it restarts. Or go into recovery without holding power button, and if you can then that means the power button is stuck on.
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I believe so, unless you pull the battery. In fact pull battery plug into usb and go into down load mode and see if it restarts. Or go into recovery without holding power button, and if you can then that means the power button is stuck on.
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I have tried that as well. Whenever it goes into download mode the screen goes black after a couple of seconds. And it doesn't boot into recovery as well since it seems to go dead too quick.
I mainly just want to recover my pictures at this point. I am leaving the battery out of the phone for the day and see if that makes a difference this evening.
I am out of ideas, lol
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I have tried that as well. Whenever it goes into download mode the screen goes black after a couple of seconds. And it doesn't boot into recovery as well since it seems to go dead too quick.
I mainly just want to recover my pictures at this point. I am leaving the battery out of the phone for the day and see if that makes a difference this evening.
I am out of ideas, lol
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Take the six acres it and open her up, Take out button off and clean it and where it goes.
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Take the six acres it and open her up, Take out button off and clean it and where it goes.
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Pretty sure the flex cable on you're power button is not working as intended, could be a short from a rain drop or just everyday wear and tear another issue could be that the battery is fried and can't hold a charge, but this seems unlikely given you're circumstance.
I always tell people to utilize pie controls to save you're everyday use from wearing out our precious hardware buttons, My power and home only get pressed to wake the device, everything else is pie control via LMT launcher
That happened to me a few months ago. I was at work when it happened. The phone would just continually restart, vibrate, restart, back and forth. I ended up taking the battery out so it wouldn't get drained. Had it out for about four hours. Once I got home, I put it back in and never had any more problems. It was just a random thing, so try keeping the battery out for a while.
I'll keep my fingers crossed. I took the phone apart last night to clean it out and it was pretty spotless. But It keeps shutting off after trying to boot after a few seconds. I just hope I can get to a point where I can get my pictures off of it now.
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I'll keep my fingers crossed. I took the phone apart last night to clean it out and it was pretty spotless. But It keeps shutting off after trying to boot after a few seconds. I just hope I can get to a point where I can get my pictures off of it now.
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Hello all, as an update, I did nothing to my S3 over the weekend haping something magical could happen.
Today I went through all the normal steps again, and still a dead soldier. Now it wont ever SHow the Samsung logo however - just a short vibrate then nothing..
Still get a red light and a short vibrate when plugging into the comp without battery in though.
I have NOT taken it apart yet, but I will tonight most likely.
Thanks for all the suggestions and Ill keep this updated.
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Hello all, as an update, I did nothing to my S3 over the weekend haping something magical could happen.
Today I went through all the normal steps again, and still a dead soldier. Now it wont ever SHow the Samsung logo however - just a short vibrate then nothing..
Still get a red light and a short vibrate when plugging into the comp without battery in though.
I have NOT taken it apart yet, but I will tonight most likely.
Thanks for all the suggestions and Ill keep this updated.
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Hello again,
Some news, I am able to get it into download mode for about 1 second then the phone shuts off - just like the other person in this thread with the same issue.
I took the phone apart and used a Qtip with 91% isopropyl Alcohol to try and clean the power button (which looks surprisingly clean). Still the same thing happening.
I'm running out of ideas here, so please chime in if you have any.
Thanks
axel4401 said:
Hello again,
Some news, I am able to get it into download mode for about 1 second then the phone shuts off - just like the other person in this thread with the same issue.
I took the phone apart and used a Qtip with 91% isopropyl Alcohol to try and clean the power button (which looks surprisingly clean). Still the same thing happening.
I'm running out of ideas here, so please chime in if you have any.
Thanks
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I was going to try the alcohol tonight, but I am afraid that I will have same results. I am going to try a new battery from another s3 tomorrow. I will post the results.
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I was going to try the alcohol tonight, but I am afraid that I will have same results. I am going to try a new battery from another s3 tomorrow. I will post the results.
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Final update (hopefully)
I got the qtip and scrubbed anything to do with the battery, pressed the power button, got more alcohol in by the button (not a lot) scrubbed some more terminals, and the battery terminals, etc. waited about ten minutes and put the battery in...
Low and behold, something worked and now the phone comes on.
I dont know which part of the scrubbing actually did it, but something worked.
All in all I have no idea what actually fixed it, but the point is that it works.
Thank you for who those that insisted that it was a power button issue - you were most likely right.
So here are my results as of today, and what I have tried to get to this point:
After my S3 died and wouldn't boot up into recovery i tried cleaning all the internals with alcohol. I cleaned thoroughly, and focused on the charging port, the power switch and battery terminals. The phone acted exactly the same.
I then tried putting it in a bowl of rice for about 24 hours. I was thinking that it might have been caused by some condensation. No success.
I was thinking since the power would turn on whenever i plugged the battery in, that maybe the switch was stuck. I took it apart again and tested the switch with a multi-meter. The switch seemed fine. It was responding when i pushed it, so i figured that wasn't the problem.
I kept reading that apparently this is an issue with the mother board. I tried the broken PS3 method of heating up the motherboard with a heat gun in hopes to re-seat something that may be loose. This did not work either. After this, I figured i was SOL since I was out of ideas and out of warranty (which didn't really matter anyway since I am running Hyperdrive).
Earlier today I figured the best tool in your toolbox sometimes is a hammer. I started tapping the phone on the side of my table, especially around the power button, while trying to turn it on. It didn't seem like it was doing anything either. I then plugged the phone into the charger since i thought the battery was totally dead.
A few minutes after i walked away from the phone, I came back into room and the red charging light was on. I tried turning it on, and holy cow it works...wtf...
I have no idea what made this work. It could be a complete coincidence. But, this phone has not worked since last Saturday. I just kept messing with it and may have just gotten lucky. I don't think banging your phone will fix this, but if truly was a hardware issue, maybe something in the phones mother board is becoming loose from the extreme heat they endure at times. I know my S3 has gotten pretty hot when I use it to navigate and leave it in the case.
I don't know if any of this will help anyone, but this is my experience so far of my S3 having what I think is the sudden death failure. I will followup with any updates if it decides to act up again.
I bought my Mom a used Inc2 on eBay. Rooted/S-OFF running SlimRom 4.2.2 on Page Plus.
My Mom messages me on Facebook to tell me she thinks the phone is broken. I have to agree. I don't know what she did, but she seems to think she had somehow got the phone into fastboot/bootloader/recovery and was trying to pull the battery to get it back to normal. She thinks she selected something before the battery pull, but doesn't know what.
Phone won't turn on (no splash screen, no boot animation, no nothing).
No LED when phone is plugged in.
Tried several charging cables.
Tried switching with a battery known to work and be charged.
Nothing.
Anyone else ever have a similar issue? Is there any way to repair this (taking apart phone and replacing parts)? Or should I just buy her a new phone?
Pull the battery completely..wait a sec with your finger on the power to completely discharge it ...pop battery back in volumedown +power to get into recovery check to see if she formated anything fix w.e profit perhaps ?
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Battery is my guess
My guess was the battery too. Your mom may not have put it back in correctly (My mom sometimes can't see the little gold connectors without her glasses.) Make sure the connectors match up.
If that wasn't the problem, try using a (cell phone) universal battery charger.
(Amazon.com has them for cheap, and they save your life if your usb port ever dies until you can replace the charging port.)
Once you know the battery is charged, and put in correctly, you can tell if it's the phone or not.
If she wiped the system cache, you won't boot. But, you can always try placing a new ROM on the SD card (easiest way is using a desktop computer with an SD card reader,) and re-install the phone's operating system (rom).
Even if the phone is somehow bricked: you can still get her data and pictures off the SD card with any SD card reader connected to a computer.
We have all made the dinc 2 UNBRICKABLE mwuahahaha no paperweights here
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We have all made the dinc 2 UNBRICKABLE mwuahahaha no paperweights here
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Thanks for the responses. But alas, it is not a simple matter of battery wrong way. My gf has the same phone and hers works. I tried switching batteries and the one from my Mom's phone works and has about 40% juice in it.
But her phone won't respond at all. When you plug in the USB charger, the LED should come on to signify that the phone is receiving power from the wall/computer/etc... There's nothing.
The phone doesn't turn on at all. I can't get into recovery because it won't power on at all.
She said the phone booted a couple times before I got it, but got stuck on the boot animation and never made it into the actual ROM. Now it won't come on at all. I guess the phone is bricked completely (by no fault of the software - I think this is some sort of hardward issue but I just don't know what)
I guess I'll activate her old phone. Thanks for trying to help.
(I really thought holding the power button without battery in might work because I had used that trick once before, but alas, nothing)
Maybe the power button is dirty try to clean it there's I tear down guide...you won't need to go far into it tho verrrry simple...voids warranty for sure
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Maybe the power button is dirty try to clean it there's I tear down guide...you won't need to go far into it tho verrrry simple...voids warranty for sure
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I thought about that, too... But why wouldn't the LED turn on when connected to USB?
Warranty isn't an issue lol. I bought this thing refurbished on eBay.
Who knows maybe it dropped busting the led and power button...dinc forensics
O yea if not then its hardware software wouldn't make the phone not charge
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I have same problem and when i got maintenance center they told me must change the IC flash for phone :crying:
Check the USB port
These phones came out so long ago I imagine original warranty is long gone. I that's the case, might as well open it up and check or fix the power button like chilly suggests.
There are little ribbon cables everywhere inside, for things like the USB port, screen digitizer...and if the phone was dropped, it could have squished the power button, and easily, jarred a ribbon loose. Checking them all out and inspecting the power button might be all you need to do for a fix. At the end of it all, even if nothing is solved, you can sell the phone for parts on ebay and make at least $45.
I thought about doing that once, but I'm glad I inspected mine before I hit the "sell button." I watched some tear-down videos on youtube and decided to give it a go. Now I'm much more comfortable with tinkering with phones. It can be a nice learning experience.
It started when I once tried to plug in my phone in the dark, and I actually managed to cram the USB charger into the phone upside-down!
What this did was make the phone un-chargable, even though the usb cable would still fit in there just fine.
Same symptoms you are having: cord goes in, no light comes on. Yet, the cord charges other phones just fine.
On ebay you can buy new USB ports for about $6-9. I purchased one, found a how-to video on youtube, and repaired mine myself with just a cheap torc x screwdriver set that I purchased for $8.
Fix worked 100%. Don't give up just yet.
Hi guys, TMO Galaxy S III. I was running Cyanogenmod 10.2.
I was driving home from a road trip to the race track, used GPS on my phone as it was plugged in charging. Turned it off as soon as I got to a familiar place. Put the phone in my pocket after I got home. Pulled it out 30 minutes later and it's turned off.
Efforts to turn it on failed. I plugged it in (even though it had batter left before it died) and nothing happens. No LED, no battery charge graphic, no vibration.
I switched batteries. I switched plugs. Tired to reboot into recovery. Nothing. I can't get Kies to recognize it.
I didn't drop it. No water damage. Any ideas?
If after putting battery back in, and unplugged, you get zero response from pressing power, then yes it sounds like it's dead
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If after putting battery back in, and unplugged, you get zero response from pressing power, then yes it sounds like it's dead
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Yup. Zero response. The only way I can get it to do anything, is to pull the battery, then plug in the phone w/ no battery. That gives me a red LED. Nothing else. That's the only sign of any life. No vibration or anything. Just the red LED.
Try a different battery, ?
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Yup. Zero response. The only way I can get it to do anything, is to pull the battery, then plug in the phone w/ no battery. That gives me a red LED. Nothing else. That's the only sign of any life. No vibration or anything. Just the red LED.
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That battery may have died from heat. Navigation while plugged in tends to heat up the phone.
It's unlikely enough that I would not recommend buying a new one just to test though. Maybe go to a T-Mobile store and swap with someone just to test.
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I mentioned in my first post I switched batteries. First tried my wife's battery and it didn't do anything. She tried my battery and her phone booted with 89% life.
Took it to a store and tired a new battery and it didn't work.
My wife just emailed me. Her phone was acting strange, turned itself off once. She booted it back up and it turned itself off again and won't turn back on. SHE AT LEAST gets the "Galaxy SIII" screen. She couldn't get it into recovery mode, but she could get it into download mode. I'll try and flash it tonight.
Samsung is garbage.
Sorry bout the battery thing. A few of us answer so many of these things it sometimes gets mixed up a bit and we will just add to someone else's information, not always rereading each thread...
There is a debrick thread stickied in development you may want to try. Can't guarantee anything of course, but you never know, it could end up fixing one or both of the devices.
On your wife's, take out the battery and then put back in. Wait a few to see if it attempts to turn itself on w/o pressing power.
If it does, then it's probably got a broken power button. This has become a common occurrence recently, but from what I hear is a relatively easy fix.
It may not be this though if she can get download mode to stay booted every time. But it's an easy test.
Also, when plugging into the computer, if it says something like QHSUSB in device manager, it's probably hard bricked. The debrick thread can probably help in this case.
Sorry you're having such issues with both devices. It's not the norm though. If it is a hardware failure, and you got both at the same time, it could be that one of the components may not have been completely up to par for the batch yours came from. That's just speculation though...
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DocHoliday77 said:
Sorry bout the battery thing. A few of us answer so many of these things it sometimes gets mixed up a bit and we will just add to someone else's information, not always rereading each thread...
There is a debrick thread stickied in development you may want to try. Can't guarantee anything of course, but you never know, it could end up fixing one or both of the devices.
On your wife's, take out the battery and then put back in. Wait a few to see if it attempts to turn itself on w/o pressing power.
If it does, then it's probably got a broken power button. This has become a common occurrence recently, but from what I hear is a relatively easy fix.
It may not be this though if she can get download mode to stay booted every time. But it's an easy test.
Also, when plugging into the computer, if it says something like QHSUSB in device manager, it's probably hard bricked. The debrick thread can probably help in this case.
Sorry you're having such issues with both devices. It's not the norm though. If it is a hardware failure, and you got both at the same time, it could be that one of the components may not have been completely up to par for the batch yours came from. That's just speculation though...
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For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
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For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
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I'd try the Kies to Factory Restore. You've got not much to loose that way. Keep an eye on it afterwards to see if the reboots go away.
But before you do that, can you let me know if wife's phone has its own battery or your phone's battery ? If its was your Battery that was in there when she experienced the reboots then put her own battery and check.
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I'd try the Kies to Factory Restore. You've got not much to loose that way. Keep an eye on it afterwards to see if the reboots go away.
But before you do that, can you let me know if wife's phone has its own battery or your phone's battery ? If its was your Battery that was in there when she experienced the reboots then put her own battery and check.
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Soooo on Sunday her phone completely shut off again. It would only boot to the swirling galaxy S circle, the turn itself off (in mid animation). I can boot it into recovery and download mode, but it only stays booted for 3 seconds or so, before turning off. Not long enough for Kies/Odin/factory restore via recovery.
SO we fixed the problem permanently. I got an HTC One and she got a Nexus 5.
Samsung can die in a fire. Never again are they getting my money.
illegal machine said:
Soooo on Sunday her phone completely shut off again. It would only boot to the swirling galaxy S circle, the turn itself off (in mid animation). I can boot it into recovery and download mode, but it only stays booted for 3 seconds or so, before turning off. Not long enough for Kies/Odin/factory restore via recovery.
SO we fixed the problem permanently. I got an HTC One and she got a Nexus 5.
Samsung can die in a fire. Never again are they getting my money.
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You may consider donating the devices to some developer on here. The community will benefit from better code.
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For sure, I know how many times the question comes up. No worries on the battery thing.
Ok, so I was able to get my wife's phone into recovery and wiped dalvik/factory restore. It turned itself off twice over the next 30 min. But at least it boots every time.
Would you guys suggest I use Kies to factory restore? Or if it keeps restarting after factory restore via recovery, is it not going to do any good?
My wife said it's turned itself off 7 times today (over 5 hours). Ohhhh Sammy....
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Well, I'm glad you solved the issue to your satisfaction. Sorry we weren't able to help in getting it fixed w/o needing to spend your money.
Good luck to the future and your new toys!
So I ended up flashing CM12 located in one of the other threads to play around with 5.0. It worked perfectly, no problems to be found or anything. However at one point, I went to grab it and play a game, the screen refused to turn on. I tried the Power + Vol. up trick and it still didn't do anything. Concerned (as I was toying around with a resolution app to pump it to 1600x900 res) I continued to try to force reboot it, and tried the Power + Vol. down trick to get into recovery. I plugged it into my computer to see if I can use ADB to force it to reboot and I get an error: no device found. So now I'm stuck waiting for the power to drain completely but it's been close to 24 hours and it still doesnt work. However my computer dings immediately as soon as I plug it in so it sounds like it's still alive (however there's no charging light on). How boned am I? Anything else I can try?
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So I ended up flashing CM12 located in one of the other threads to play around with 5.0. It worked perfectly, no problems to be found or anything. However at one point, I went to grab it and play a game, the screen refused to turn on. I tried the Power + Vol. up trick and it still didn't do anything. Concerned (as I was toying around with a resolution app to pump it to 1600x900 res) I continued to try to force reboot it, and tried the Power + Vol. down trick to get into recovery. I plugged it into my computer to see if I can use ADB to force it to reboot and I get an error: no device found. So now I'm stuck waiting for the power to drain completely but it's been close to 24 hours and it still doesnt work. However my computer dings immediately as soon as I plug it in so it sounds like it's still alive (however there's no charging light on). How boned am I? Anything else I can try?
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I think there are 2 other cases exactly like yours, that makes me not want to use CM12.
Wait for the device to die, then try if adb recognizes it, or if you can get into recovery.
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I think there are 2 other cases exactly like yours, that makes me not want to use CM12.
Wait for the device to die, then try if adb recognizes it, or if you can get into recovery.
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ok, I'll continue waiting, thanks for the info. I'll go ahead and flash CM11 and use that for awhile until HTC pushes their 5.0 out or if problems are fixed. Hopefully it won't take too much longer for the device to die...
2 days later, nothing, opened it up and removed the battery (was surprisingly a joke to do it too), plugged it back in, again nothing, plugged it into PC and the usual ding can be heard from the PC (But no charging light). Guess it's dead. If anyone else figures anything out, feel free to lemme know, back to the old broken screen Reverb for now.
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2 days later, nothing, opened it up and removed the battery (was surprisingly a joke to do it too), plugged it back in, again nothing, plugged it into PC and the usual ding can be heard from the PC (But no charging light). Guess it's dead. If anyone else figures anything out, feel free to lemme know, back to the old broken screen Reverb for now.
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Unplug the battery, and then plug the phone into the charger with the battery out. Then after 10-15 minutes, plug the battery back in without unplugging the phone. Then just let the phone charge for a few hours. That has worked for me on other phones several times.
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Unplug the battery, and then plug the phone into the charger with the battery out. Then after 10-15 minutes, plug the battery back in without unplugging the phone. Then just let the phone charge for a few hours. That has worked for me on other phones several times.
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Unfortunately it didn't work, literally nothing changed. Slight ringing noise from under the heatsink though when plugged in. Guessing it's fubar?
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Unfortunately it didn't work, literally nothing changed. Slight ringing noise from under the heatsink though when plugged in. Guessing it's fubar?
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If theres still no charging lite? Possibly. You could try to charge the battery with a split charger. However thats last resort and can break your battery if it doesn't work.
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Unfortunately it didn't work, literally nothing changed. Slight ringing noise from under the heatsink though when plugged in. Guessing it's fubar?
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Or you could use your manufacturers warranty and send that baby back in for a fresh one. Claim a defect... Why? Because it is a defect. If you can't get it to boot with adb / rooted methods then their stock methods won't work nor detect anything. Besides, the worse they'll do is send your phone back the same way it got to them.
Also, if the others who ran into this issue could give feedback on if they modified screen resolution before the device kicked on CM12 that would be most informative.
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a bit of a necro, but a headup/final question.
Amazon gave me a full refund (took awhile) and getting a new Desire. However I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue? I REALLY want to keep using Android 5.0 but I'm slightly worried about if it was just bad luck with 5.0, an actual issue with 5.0, or me screwing it up myself with changing my resolution (I don't think I even touched my DPI)(Virgin Mobile US Desire 816).
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a bit of a necro, but a headup/final question.
Amazon gave me a full refund (took awhile) and getting a new Desire. However I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue? I REALLY want to keep using Android 5.0 but I'm slightly worried about if it was just bad luck with 5.0, an actual issue with 5.0, or me screwing it up myself with changing my resolution (I don't think I even touched my DPI)(Virgin Mobile US Desire 816).
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A ROM can't fry your phone like this, so you have nothing to worry about. The issue with your last phone wasn't because of CM12.
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A ROM can't fry your phone like this, so you have nothing to worry about. The issue with your last phone wasn't because of CM12.
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So either I screwed something up or it was a screwed up phone in the first place (I'm inclined to believe this as it was frequently getting into a locked state where I'd have to force reboot it via the vol/power buttons). Guess I'll go for it, thanks!