I have a 2 week old Galaxy Tab S 10.5 with a problem that just started or noted yesterday. My menu and back touch buttons are flashing every minute or so? I have checked accessibility under vision and notifications is not turned on.. Was playing yesterday with different settings in all the sub-menus. Not sure what I could have done to make this happen. I also have no pending notifications. Plus I rebooted, powered off with no help. The tablet is bone stock unrooted at this time.
If the device still does it after factory reset and with absolutely no changes to settings or additions from user = defective.
Since I am not rooted yet, i hate the thought of setting up the tablet over again. Temporarily I set the led lights as always off. Since I got it at best buy less than 30 days. I can always return it, same as doing a factory reset. Thanks for the reply.
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Volume button on my HD was playing up for the last few days so I decided to reset the phone today via the power button just incase it might help, since then it hasn't started up again, I get 3 buzzes after I've removed and replaced the battery and then the amber light flashes constantly.
I was running CM7 for a while but went back to stock as I missed the sense UI so I should be on the most recent update.
It's a pain because I'm on holiday so have no access to my PC, I have access to Macs but I'm not sure there is even an HTC sync style application for that system.
Many thanks in advance for any help.
Ok, phone was left off for ~24 hours, battery totally flat, I switched it on and at screen came alive, unfortunately the sim hadn't been inserted properly and phone demanded I reset it, when I did back on the fritz, will give it another 20 minutes or so, hopefully will be back to the same state where I can start it again and go from there, were there any bad 2.3 updates that I possibly installed when I went back to stock?
I haven't seen any one discussing this with the T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (SGH-T999) yet, so I'm guessing its just an issue with my phone but I thought I'd ask first..
My phone is a brand new T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (SGH-T999) 16gig Blue, fresh out of box. Not rooted. Running stock rom.
Searching, I've a seen similar issue mentioned for other (older) phones, the fix seemed to be disable auto-rotation and auto-brightness. I've turned both off, and still have the problem.
If I let my T-Mo S3 sit, and the screen has been off for a few minutes (usually two or so will do it), I can't get the screen to turn back on.
The LED will blink, and if I hold the power button long enough, the phone will restart (and the screen will turn on).
I've tried a factory reset via the settings menu, going into stock recovery and doing a wipe cache, as well as a factory reset and wipe cache in the stock recovery. I still have the issue.
Have others experienced this? Is there a fix, or is it time for me to get with T-Mobile about a replacement?
Note: My VZW S3 (SGH-i535) doesn't have this problem).
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KidJoe said:
I haven't seen any one discussing this with the T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (SGH-T999) yet, so I'm guessing its just an issue with my phone but I thought I'd ask first..
My phone is a brand new T-Mobile Galaxy S3 (SGH-T999) 16gig Blue, fresh out of box. Not rooted. Running stock rom.
Searching, I've a seen similar issue mentioned for other (older) phones, the fix seemed to be disable auto-rotation and auto-brightness. I've turned both off, and still have the problem.
If I let my T-Mo S3 sit, and the screen has been off for a few minutes (usually two or so will do it), I can't get the screen to turn back on.
The LED will blink, and if I hold the power button long enough, the phone will restart (and the screen will turn on).
I've tried a factory reset via the settings menu, going into stock recovery and doing a wipe cache, as well as a factory reset and wipe cache in the stock recovery. I still have the issue.
Have others experienced this? Is there a fix, or is it time for me to get with T-Mobile about a replacement?
Note: My VZW S3 (SGH-i535) doesn't have this problem).
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Exact same issue here ... Do you have power saving enabled? The only other option I play with is NFC ... although not sure why this would affect it. I have now disabled power saving and NFC to see if problem persists.
I did get a replacement phone. The replacement works fine.
Did a factory reset and haven't had an issue since. Definitely an app causing it ... just not sure which one!
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Did a factory reset and haven't had an issue since. Definitely an app causing it ... just not sure which one!
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I had tried several factory resets. Didn't fix. I even tried re-flashing via Odin.
Mine even "stayed alseep" at the "welcome" screen pre-setup (after factory reset).
newbie with the same problem..
My GTI9300 is doing the same thing. If I leave it idle for a while, then press the power button, the phone is unresponsive. Pressing the home or vol buttons does nothing. if I call it, the phone recieves the call, but no ringtone is played and the screen stays off.
It started doing it since I updated to the official 4.3 rom. Its been happy and dandy on 4.1.2
I have a sneaky suspicion it's a samsung service app causing problems. Once (still on 4.3) the screen wouldn't turn back on after a Skype call. I had to call it to unlock the phone, when it did come back it said "samsung push service stopped working." Today while browsing, the hyperlinks became disabled for a short while until an app update notification showed up. Then it was normal again. It may be unrelated, but could it be the push service interfering with wake from deep sleep?
Could be, kinda hard to say. But if you haven't already you should factory reset. If some data from your previous build is not being read correctly it could cause any number of issues. (You could try clearing data on and disabling the service app first if you like)
Beyond this though, you should probably post in the international forum. Our devices are very different and I for one know very little about yours.
Good luck!
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factory reset and if thta doesnt work replace it.
Twice this week my alarm didn't go off (luckily I set a backup today) because sometime throughout the night something happened. When I woke up the phone was frozen on the yellow Sprint Spark startup screen. I needed to pull the battery and everything started up fine. I updated to Lollipop about 2 weeks ago which is where I'm guessing the issues stem from.
Is there anything I should try other than restoring to factory and starting over? I'd prefer to not have to wipe everything from my phone but these issues are becoming problematic. I am not rooted.
Thanks.
You answered your own question. You need to try a factory reset. Problems happen when you upgrade to new software without wiping.
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You answered your own question. You need to try a factory reset. Problems happen when you upgrade to new software without wiping.
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Dschachm is correct. Then if you root and install TWRP you can back it up with all of your apps and data. So if there is ever a problem again, just restore and done.
So I ended up doing a factory reset and while the phone certainly started running faster with better battery performance after the reset I'm still having this issue. I would say it occurs 2-3 times a week. It has only occurred overnight which is typically when I charge my phone so I'm pretty sure it is related to being left connected to the charger. The majority of the times I will wake up with a dim yellow Sprint screen and everything else frozen though occasionally the screen will be black with the led notification light red. In both situations the screen will not respond to any button pushes or holds and I need to pull the battery and then everything will start up fine.
Does anybody have any suggestions here on what I should do? I guess I can try and restore one more time and see but I don't really know why it would be different and it is certainly a pain to keep restoring the phone and losing all my settings. I definitely don't want to root now since I believe that voids the warranty and if I can't figure anything out with this I'll certainly be requesting a new phone from Sprint. Before I start dealing with Sprint though I thought I would check here first. Through all my searches on the internet I haven't seen anyone else complaining about this problem.
Thanks.
I've gotten the sprint yellow screen and nothing else.phone doesn't turn on? When I try turn it on after removing batteryou I get the android figure and phone turns off? How can I reboot or start the phone..?and can I save my contacts?
I just got my son a, refurbished, M9 from Amazon. It's all stock.... I updated on Tuesday (a week ago) to Android 6.0 and set it all up. He's horrible about letting his phone die.... So far, it's died 3 times and each time, it looses all it's settings? The default apps all reset, the quicksettings reset, the keyboard, everything.
Today, it died again and when he booted it up, it kept giving HTC Sense and Google.system errors and you couldn't do anything?
What can be causing this?
I just reset the device back to factory settings and am installing everything again.....But I'm not sure what's going on?
This is the 3rd one I've gotten....The first two the motor died, this one feels and sounds better, but keeps resetting itself.
Should I return it, or is there a fix?
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In the last few weeks my normally totally reliable Pixel 2 XL has started switching off or restarting. It never happens when I'm using it and it's always when it's in my pocket. It can happen if I have full charge or anything inbetween. The phone is now just out of its 2 year warranty period and it's highly probable that the issue is down to the battery needing replacing. I've tried factory resetting but this hasn't helped.
However I was wondering if there's an application that I can pull logs from it to see why the phone is switching off and rebooting? As once I factory reset my phone it just installed all my old apps, so if one of these is the culprit the problem will still occur.
Thanks.
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In the last few weeks my normally totally reliable Pixel 2 XL has started switching off or restarting. It never happens when I'm using it and it's always when it's in my pocket. It can happen if I have full charge or anything inbetween. The phone is now just out of its 2 year warranty period and it's highly probable that the issue is down to the battery needing replacing. I've tried factory resetting but this hasn't helped.
However I was wondering if there's an application that I can pull logs from it to see why the phone is switching off and rebooting? As once I factory reset my phone it just installed all my old apps, so if one of these is the culprit the problem will still occur.
Thanks.
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This has been happening to me too!
Especially when inputting Wi-Fi passwords.
As an update to this, my phone totally died the other week. I can just about get it into the Android boot screen when holding volume down and the power buttons when its chagring. But if I select retart or developer mode it flicks on the Start up splash screen and then powers down. I now can't even sell it for spares or repairs as I can't factory reset it!
In the mean time I've 'borrowed' a crappy works phone and I'm impatiently waiting for Google to release the Pixel 4A.