Hey guys, I really need your help. My S4 came back from a failed repair due to voiding my warranty. But now I'm having trouble booting it up? I can see what's going on because of my broken digitizer but I when I tried to replace the screen, I can see a yellow triangle with temperature gauge...Did Samsung break my phone? Because this didn't happen before I got it back from them. Anyways, that self-repair failed on me too, and I now I can't see anything other than a blinking red light when I plug my phone to charge. Sometimes a blue pulsating light when I press the power button during the blinking red light is happening. I have never been frustrated with a phone in my life. What are my options? Should I just get a new S4?
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The notification LED (Red when charging, red blinking on notification, blue when fully charging) is always ON in RED. Regardless if the phone is on or off. It will obviously turn off if I pull the battery, however as soon as a put the battery back in, it turns on and stays on. Doesnt effect anything on the phone that I can notice, but its just always on.
Any ideas?
Possible water damage. Are you using a rom other than Stock? When did this problem start? Try and think back to when the problem started.you may have an App causing you Led to stay lit.
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I bought it used. So water damage is a possibility, although the stickers that turn pink when they get wet are still white and the phone is like brand new, not a scratch on it.
Its running the Sony XPLOD rom from the ROM section here. It was doing it back when it was stock though. I assumed it was a possible rom issue, so I rooted/CWM'd/installed a diff rom.
Same deal tho, RED light is still on. Turns purple when fully charged tho! (Blue comes on while red is already on)
I know you said it was "stock" when purchased but did you do a full wipe prior to or after flashing your current ROM? Worth a shot if not.
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Sounds like it could be water damage to me. You can buy new stickers, so those don't mean anything. I think there are also stickers inside the unit.
Sounds like the red light is stuck in an ON position. If this happens with all roms, its a hardware issue.
Does it come on as soon as you power on the device? If not, than I would think software.
I'd use one click Odin return to compete stock ek02 flash, run it for awhile and see if the problem happens again.
I say hardware problem same thing happens to mine aswell. I cant code but if we can get someone to develop a script or something that can disable the light that would be great because im sure it causes battery drain
Epic 4g Touch white. 24 day old phone. I already reset the phone to factory settings.
1.When phone hits 100% charge I unplug the cable and the notification light stays blue (all the time, screen on or off)because it still thinks the cable is connected.
2.When I restart the phone at 99% or below then the light stays red (all the time, screen on or off)
3.When phone if off and is not plugged in red l& blue lights flash, an empty battery picture comes out then a full green battery picture comes out. this will happen non stop while the phone is off.
Need any possible fix/root for this problem. anything.
thanks
I had a white housing that was doing similar things. I had it replaced. Turned out the ribbon cables were faulty.
I have the same problem. I can make the light go out if I unplug the cord from the charger then the phone, but it eventually comes back on.
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best buy warranty (no phone for 2 weeks)
Reset the phone handed it over for repair to BB. Guy said they do not make the white GS2 anymore so it would take 2~3 weeks for repair on my phone. I had no other option since I didn't want to get the black one from them.
Hi all,
I bought a SG Note 2 from eBay. When I got it I saw a solid red light flashing I then took the battery out and plugged it back in. When I saw that the solid red flash light turn back on without me pressing the power button I was quite worried so I immediately googled the problem, to my horror the result weren't what I was expecting....I'm doubting this to be a dead eMMC issue? The only problem is that the LCD is cracked so I cannot see what's displayed on the screen...Could someone please help me resolve this problem.
Red light doesn't lit up on powering on. It lits up while charging. If your phone's screen is black with red light, then it's a SDS case. If its in warranty, immediately go to service center and get it fixed. Or else you need to pay for motherboard replacement.
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Red light doesn't lit up on powering on. It lits up while charging. If your phone's screen is black with red light, then it's a SDS case. If its in warranty, immediately go to service center and get it fixed. Or else you need to pay for motherboard replacement.
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Thanks for your reply, Do you think changing the eMMC flash and then try resurrecting the phone with the GPG sboot cable will work?
I have this Xperia M, used it for about a year and I love it a lot. I bricked it somehow, wonder what is damaged.
Few weeks back it fell on the floor from about 15 inches. I saw some gray lines on display and than it istantly went off. I coulndt figure out if I bricked it for good or if its just screen, especially because LED acted wierd, it was blue even if I pulled the battery out.
Today I grabbed my loved Nicki, connected it to a charger, turned it on. No wierd behavior. Heard the vibration, than LED turned yellow - it was charging. I pressed volume rockers and I heard volume setting beeps! Now the LED is green, so I guess everything works well, only the screen is black dead, and oc no backlight at all.
I used CM12 on it and I assume flashing any custom rom or stock ftf wont work. Am I right? Is graphics chip dead?
Thnx for your help
If it was going haywire before, it's probably your motherboard, the best thing you can do is send it to service.
My phone have a red light when I try turn on. I cant put it in recovery moderno, cant turn on.. nothing... any solution?
That probably means the battery is too discharged to start up the main processor. Leave it charging overnight.
If it eventually has the red light go away but the screen does not come on, check with LG to see if they will repair it under warranty. I've got one currently there with them with a similar issue and is being repaired (or replaced. not sure yet) free of charge. I didn't even buy it, but found it in a dumpster. No proof of purchase needed.
My first one did the same, I sent it back to Amazon, got a full refund and bought a new one.
Hey, Any news about your problem ?
My friend give me his old phone and he has the same behaviour, he blinked red (or orange) for 10 sec and now there is nothing. He doesn't turn on, but on the top i can feel a little heat between the fingerprint and the camera. So there is some power in. On iFixit it seems that at this position, there is the Qualcomm power IC.
He bought the phone more than 2 years so now I think they will be no warranty so what should I do, contact LG to try ?
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