Hi all, I've had my Desire since they 1st came out, so about a year and a half now.. Had the same rom on there for about 10 months..
Last night I was sat at my desk and the phone just slides out of my pocket onto the floor, no big deal and it's not a big drop at all, I pick it up and go to turn wifi off and the phone just turns itself off, I try turning it back on and it stays on the pink logo for ages.. about 5 minutes before it reaches the lock screen but I cannot go any further because the touchscreen is no longer working.
The charge light doesnt come on, the battery icon is red all the time and the big battery appears on the screen saying please plug in charger, if the charger isn't plugged in then the phone just turns itself off.. Battery is 100% full and I even charged it on my partners desire and also tried her battery but it's the same.
I can access the bootloader but I cannot select anything as when i press any button the screen just turns off, and when i press any button again it comes back on. The phone will stay running in bootloader mode from the battery for hours and hours so maybe this could help pinpoint where the issue is as when the phone is on the lock screen it claims the battery is dead when it clearly isn't.
The phone still has reception and even H is connected still but I can't do anything at all.
I'm hoping somebody will recognize these symptoms so I can perhaps buy the correct part to fix this.. I'm pretty sure the fault is not the screen.
I have the phone layed on my desk now, I've stripped everything away and just left the screen and board, attached battery.. Same issue.. Detached screen and plugged in charger with battery attached, no charging light..
I have tried the following:
- Leaving the battery out for different lengths of time from 5 minutes to an hour
- Taking the battery out, plugging in to USB, putting the battery in, turning the phone on
The phone is rooted, unlocked and uses a custom ROM. I dropped it LITERALLY a foot and a half from a table onto a soft carpet, and didn't notice until a long time later that it wouldn't turn on. I don't know if the two were related as I didn't look at the phone after I dropped it.
I can only power the phone on if I use the method of taking the battery out, plugging in to the USB and putting the battery in, but whether I try the power button or any combination of volume up/down and power button, the phone stays on for a couple seconds then the screen turns off.
A few times the Google logo has come up and then disappeared and I've had some white scrambled/garbled display toward the bottom of the screen. As it sits plugged in to the PC now with the battery in, every so often it does the garbled lines on the bottom of the screen.
edit: Trying the Volume Down + Power for recovery flashes the screen with "Start" and the Android bot on it for a second, but then it turns right off again.
I'm thinking it's probably pretty screwed up but if anyone has some suggestions, I'm all ears. I'm worried about having to bring it in for repair (even though it's under warranty) because it's rooted/unlocked/custom ROM'd.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
After reading all this, my guess is your device is physically broken. Sorry man.
BACKGROUND:
At first, it just started turning off for no reason (probably a month and a half ago).
Then this week, it would start to randomly turn off, and start vibrating constantly when charging. After fiddling with the buttons, it would eventually find itself into download mode and then later turn itself on.
NOW:
Monday morning, after several days of draining the battery to 0% (due to me solely charging it for an hour a day), the phone went dead. Then, that night, upon trying to charge it and turn it on, it remained stuck on a black screen. After taking out the battery, it would continuously beep while still connected to the charger. As soon as I put in the battery, it would become COMPLETELY unresponsive, with and without the charger. After fiddling with it for over an hour, I put it down and slept, leaving the battery and charge in the phone.
Tuesday morning, I clicked the power button, and the phone flashed to the lock screen. It displayed it was at 0% battery, but I think it showed a charging sign. I used the phone for almost 2 minutes, checking my texts, before it again went completely black. The phone became completely unresponsive (no beeping or anything, regardless of anything I did). I connected it to a wall charger again, and left it there for the entire afternoon.
Then when I picked it up at around 6 o clock, I discovered that the continuous beeping stopped, and it would only beep after holding the power button for around 5 seconds. It could beep regardless of whether the battery was out or not.
After charging it all that night, I found I could make it flash the Samsung logo for a fraction of a second after holding down both volume buttons and the power button. I looked it up, and supposedly it brings you to recovery mode, but I believe my phone is switching off immediately after bringing up the logo.
At around 12, Tuesday night, I again decided to hold down the power button (just to reassure myself of it still somewhat functioning), and it powered on for around ten seconds (!!!) . It got all the way to the end of the pink loading bar screen, but then beeped and restarted. The second time, it lasted only around three seconds, without even getting to the loading bar screen, before powering off. It became completely unresponsive afterwards, no beeping, regardless of where it was charging and whether the battery was in or not.
Wednesday morning (today), after having left it charge all night, the phone still was completely unresponsive. I then left it to charge the entire afternoon (until now), and it was still completely unresponsive. I took it apart and played around with the power button, but it didn't seem to be stuck. I've now put it back together and leaving it connected to the wall charger once again.
What I've Tried:
Tried connecting it to Kies (computer doesn't even recognize it)
Tried putting into Recovery Mode (unresponsive)
Tried putting into Download Mode (unresponsive)
Switched chargers (unresponsive)
Held power button (beeps, now doesn't do anything)
Held both volume buttons and power button (beeps then quickly flashes samsung logo)
Cleaned off some of the micro usb lint with a tooth pick (coincided with the stopping of continuous beeping, not sure if it caused it)
What I think it could be:
Faulty power button (this is what I thought it was, but now it's not vibrating)
Faulty battery (I kept draining to 0%, but if this is the problem, it doesn't explain the phone not displaying anything when it's connected to a charger w/o battery inside)
Faulty usb charging port (I've heard it sometimes causes vibration problems. wouldnt explain the restarting).
Fried motherboard (phone has had some water damage, but I'm not sure if it's the MOBO, considering its symptoms)
HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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hey, this isnt really an answer, but maybe something to bump this up. Mine went last night.... won't boot, won't charge... goes into download mode but no matter how many times i switch cables, install Samsung drivers, install Keis, or anything imaginable- i cannot get it to communicate with my PC. if i could i would be able to fix this problem.
i really hope that someone will take a look at these issues and give some input. my call to Samsung was useless, i wasted hours with redundancy. I bought the phone used off Ebay in mint condition... have taken it apart and cleaned it with no avail. i fear that soon the battery will be dead and there's no way to charge it. sucks. Samsung really should recall/replace this because so many people have similar issues. whether it's the USB Flex or the battery or the motherboard they should be responsible. looks like ill be getting a nexus 4 afterall.
please let me know if you figure anything out.
sluchy523 said:
BACKGROUND:
At first, it just started turning off for no reason (probably a month and a half ago).
Then this week, it would start to randomly turn off, and start vibrating constantly when charging. After fiddling with the buttons, it would eventually find itself into download mode and then later turn itself on.
NOW:
Monday morning, after several days of draining the battery to 0% (due to me solely charging it for an hour a day), the phone went dead. Then, that night, upon trying to charge it and turn it on, it remained stuck on a black screen. After taking out the battery, it would continuously beep while still connected to the charger. As soon as I put in the battery, it would become COMPLETELY unresponsive, with and without the charger. After fiddling with it for over an hour, I put it down and slept, leaving the battery and charge in the phone.
Tuesday morning, I clicked the power button, and the phone flashed to the lock screen. It displayed it was at 0% battery, but I think it showed a charging sign. I used the phone for almost 2 minutes, checking my texts, before it again went completely black. The phone became completely unresponsive (no beeping or anything, regardless of anything I did). I connected it to a wall charger again, and left it there for the entire afternoon.
Then when I picked it up at around 6 o clock, I discovered that the continuous beeping stopped, and it would only beep after holding the power button for around 5 seconds. It could beep regardless of whether the battery was out or not.
After charging it all that night, I found I could make it flash the Samsung logo for a fraction of a second after holding down both volume buttons and the power button. I looked it up, and supposedly it brings you to recovery mode, but I believe my phone is switching off immediately after bringing up the logo.
At around 12, Tuesday night, I again decided to hold down the power button (just to reassure myself of it still somewhat functioning), and it powered on for around ten seconds (!!!) . It got all the way to the end of the pink loading bar screen, but then beeped and restarted. The second time, it lasted only around three seconds, without even getting to the loading bar screen, before powering off. It became completely unresponsive afterwards, no beeping, regardless of where it was charging and whether the battery was in or not.
Wednesday morning (today), after having left it charge all night, the phone still was completely unresponsive. I then left it to charge the entire afternoon (until now), and it was still completely unresponsive. I took it apart and played around with the power button, but it didn't seem to be stuck. I've now put it back together and leaving it connected to the wall charger once again.
What I've Tried:
Tried connecting it to Kies (computer doesn't even recognize it)
Tried putting into Recovery Mode (unresponsive)
Tried putting into Download Mode (unresponsive)
Switched chargers (unresponsive)
Held power button (beeps, now doesn't do anything)
Held both volume buttons and power button (beeps then quickly flashes samsung logo)
Cleaned off some of the micro usb lint with a tooth pick (coincided with the stopping of continuous beeping, not sure if it caused it)
What I think it could be:
Faulty power button (this is what I thought it was, but now it's not vibrating)
Faulty battery (I kept draining to 0%, but if this is the problem, it doesn't explain the phone not displaying anything when it's connected to a charger w/o battery inside)
Faulty usb charging port (I've heard it sometimes causes vibration problems. wouldnt explain the restarting).
Fried motherboard (phone has had some water damage, but I'm not sure if it's the MOBO, considering its symptoms)
HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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It may be your battery, u need to remember why they tell u not to run the phone that way, the batteries our phones run need to maintain a certain charge in order to work correctly, if like u said u only charged it an hr or so a fah for over a week and drained completely more than once u may have rendered ur battery unable to hold a charge, in effect not allowing the phone to run its boot process, I would try a new battery, because beyond that the only other logical explanation is a hardware failure, stuck power button wouldn't render the device unresponsive only when the battery was put in like that, it would bootloop, have u ever just held ur power button in? The phone vib an shuts down a. Vib again n shut down, not become unresponsive, I would try a new battery, and if it works, respect the charge lol
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I would agree, seems to be the battery. I bought 2 batteries and a 110V charger on eBay for $30. They don't have the NFC antenna in them but I've never missed it. Not only that but charging that way saves the wear and tear on the USB port.
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I've inherited a HOX which I'm trying to set up for my wife to use. It has a very unusual issue, when plugged in either to a charger or a PC, it shows no indication of charging - i.e. no red LED. On a PC, it intermittently gets picked up as an unknown device - or more correctly 3 unknown devices, maybe mass storage, composite & MTP? Not sure cos it doesn't pick up any device info. As I say it is intermittent which suggests the micro-USB socket might be at fault.
But there is evidence that it is accepting a charge because every 10 minutes or so the phone vibrates and displays the initial start-up screen i.e. white background with HTC logo & it doesn't get past that. It doesn't show the 'Quietly brilliant' screen first like on a regular start-up. The screen stays lit for 3 minutes or so, then it flickers and turns off. Then it turns on again about 10 minutes later and goes through the same cycle. It does this continually when plugged in. I've also tried charging using the 2 end dock contacts and it goes through the same cycle. Also, the battery & board are both warm but not hot.
I've ordered a replacement USB socket which is easy to fit as its not soldered - this might help with PC access.
I've also tried using a variety of button combinations, but the buttons seem to be completely inactive and don't do anything either when it's in the 'on' or 'off' mode.
Any ideas? I've searched and haven't come across anyone else experiencing this issue.
Just realised that the charge port is soldered in place, not just pressure contacts. It's completely detached.
Has anyone replaced a charge port? Got soldering gear but that looks tricky...
Hi,
I just installed a new battery into my OnePlus 3, because the old one was starting to bulge and push against the screen.
After installing the new battery and attempting to boot with the charger plugged in, the phone won't boot past the 1+ screen.
It buzzes, shows the 1+ screen for a while and then goes dark and buzzes again etc. If I pull out the charger cable it goes dark instantly.
If I hold down the volume down button and the power button for 30sec it boots and shows a warning screen saying "Battery too low. Charge for a while before powering on". However, this screen only shows for a split second before going dark again.
I added a photo of the same screen on a different phone that I found online as the screen really disappears within a few milliseconds on my phone:
https://ibb.co/zJJ4fMf
Does anyone know what this means? Is the new battery faulty and should I return it? Is there something I should do to reset something? Can it be that it is simply not properly connected?
Any help is welcome! Thanks
you should leave the phone and let it charge until 100%
kallum7 said:
you should leave the phone and let it charge until 100%
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I let it charge all night, but obviously it is not charging...
is there anything important on the device
Just opened up my phone to put the old battery back in and that's when I saw that the connector had gotten loose. :silly:
There were some small pieces of tape on the original battery's connector that are supposed to hold it in place, so I fabricated my own out of Scotch. Hopefully that will hold the connector in place.
ok get back to me because i want to know if you have solved this