Sorry I think I might be a noob but I'm trying not to be...please be gentle.
I have a problem with my Wave Y GT5380D
I wanted to give to it someone so I did a factory reset - which I think was a big mistake! (read others have had similar problems after doing this)
At first it worked but wouldn't connect to the network - then I realised the SIM card was probably dud (had had it a while and it doesn't work on another phone) .
It was a Virgin phone but when you turn it on it gave you the option of Virgin and Tmobile - I had a valid Tmobile sim put that in and it seemed to work fine - sent and received a few texts....then disaster. :crying:
It keeps rebooting - you get to the home screen for a second and it reboots. (So the samsung screen, bada screen -if you put in a SIM card it lets you set it up/pin unlock -but no time to enter anything/get to settings etc)
I've tried using firmware recovery and intialisation in Kies -it doesn't recognise my serial number...
I've tried flashing it - but the only file I could find didn't contain the boot files...and I guess this is a boot problem?
Does that sound right? and if it is is can you point me in the right direction to find them...
Or does it sound like something else ?
Grateful for any advice... (but I am new to this so in stupid person terms would be appreciated!)
Thank you
(Right now I hate Samsung AND Bada - I want to scream, cry and jump up and down on it - updated to android because Kies/samsung wasn't recognising my phone - I couldn't even download Bada apps! Spent hours on this - couldn't get my contacts off it, then took hours to save my texts as even a text file....now this :crying: And actually in lots of ways I prefer Bada ... more user friendly )
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I had the same problem with it. I did a factory reset then after a while it it closed out of nowhere then restart, stay up for 2 seconds then reboot again. I let it 30 minutes to do the same restart thing hoping it will change. Then I went to a phone repair shop and it reflashed my wave y. I got it back yesterday and after 2 hours of using it I went on the widgets screen and pressed the refresh button for the news. And then I figured out what was the real problem because it started doing that again . So I went to the repair shop again and now I avoid entering that first screen with the widgets :victory:
I advise you to do the same thing I did because they can fix it for like 10 euros (was the price for me) and never enter that screen again :good:
Thank you for your reply
I thought I must be too much of a noob.
I took it to a repair shop and they said they could fix it (for £10) but then got it back saying actually they couldn't. I suspect they can't find the boot files either.
Can someone point me in the right direction for a full upload - including the boot files?
It is so frustrating because it was a perfectly good phone :crying:
he is right
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Well .. Now here's what .. When I'm on roaming ...
The screen at times, doesn't unlock ..
hitting any button (including the unlock button) yields to nothing.. the screen just won't turn on ..
After repeatedly jamming some keys .. the screen unlocks. .. and everything works just fine .. till the next time, which could happen at anytime :/
What's sad is .. that my Wave's LCD , at times, doesn't even turn on while receiving calls..
What's up with this ??
There's also a ton of other issues..
I'm running 1.2 bada..
The phone just reboots randomly from the home-screen
The interface gets REAL laggy at times.. with nothing in the background.
Also , SIM REFRESHING Esp. just as a call drops out .. the network'll go offline for anything like 5-10 minutes!!
This is rendering the phone unusable!!
Am off to the service center to ask the m for a fix/replacement/ credit note
Just don't know what to say to them!
If any1 lives in India , any Idea of how the Samsung RMA system works ?? I've had to put up with hell when I got my HTC fixed in Okhla
+thanks to all those who contribute
Maybe you can reset your phone before giving it Samsung service center
That can be done from the settings menu
Best Regards
HEY!
Thanks for the reply !!
Well , the whole point was to simply get a new phone.. I'm going to try to get it swapped out for an S or a credit note..
The problem being-- I've been with bada long enough , and I refuse to wait even another month for the 2.0. I have another wave 2 at home , so can flash that and see how things work out later.. but for the time being , I need to get rid of this phone.
It's OBV. a software problem that manifests as a hardware problem.. at least it seems so
Anyway ,. my two months in Delhi have been marred by this phone virtually packing up as and when it likes.. so it's time to get a move on.
Just wanted to check whether mine was an isolated case, or whether these were permanent flaws in the device..
I did factory reset my phone after I installed 1.2 ( even that was not without heartache ) . Didn't help on my weekend trips out of station at all..
Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:
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I think u need to go to Samsung service, nothing u can do "at home"
Drogakit said:
Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:
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not sure if this will help, you can try a master reset, also you haven't rooted the phone, but did you flash it.
Drogakit said:
Hi! This is my first time posting something here but I had no choice since a troubleshoot the handset in every single way that I could
Heres my situation, I bought a Samsung Glaxy S4 Mini GT-I9190 last month, then I was riding the bus to go work and suddently my cellphone starts getting stucked, then I restart the handset in order to refresh it ( Regular restart not forced or anything like that ) When the cellphone succesfully restarted the screen wont come up, I heard the booting sound, the lockscreen sound, even I heard some messages coming up but the screen is totally in blank
Already troubleshoot the handset removing the battery, removing the SD Card, SIM card and wait for 5 minutes but the screen didnt show up again... My handset is not rooted and I never dropped or damage it or anything like that. This situation is very frustrated because I HAVE to make so many calls to my girlfriend and my daughter and I'm not allowed to do it.
Can you Pleeeeeeeeeeeease help me out with this!? If you can its well appreciated !!! :crying:
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try using a usb jig to get to download mode and reflash a stock rom ... if u dont have one you can make it by yourself
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Well I take my handset to the assistance because it was under warranty so... I need to wait 15 days in order to have it fixed or they give me a new one... Thank you anyways for helping me out !!! :laugh::good:
Title pretty much says the basics.
Details however are as follows.
SM-T210R, Have had this unit for about a year, always been in a case, never dropped, not a scratch/dent/ding on it and I use it every day.
Past couple weeks I was getting update notification from Samsung, I'd always put it off till I got home then not bother when I actually got there.
Finally, a long weekend for me.. I let the update run its course, No problems (500+MB's) And I believe it was upgrade to Kitkat from Jellybean.
Can't remember the exact version details.
Soooo, I use my tablet throughout the day everything seems to work great NO problems at all.
Notice my battery is down to like 20-25% and plug it in (Original wall charger and cable)
Go to get it the next morning, open the case expecting it to flash and display my lock/swipe screen, Nothing.. Not TOTALLY Black, you can see theres still a glow.
The screen still responds to touches ( I can swipe to unlock it and hear the sound)
I tried to reset power. Nope nothing except I can hear the startup tune.
Tried hard reset, nope same thing.
Tried every button combo I could think of or contort my hands/feet into.. Nope no joy.
Hit the internet... read, read, read, read, watch videos, watch more videos..
Ah-ha take the back off, disco battery, wait, replug and voila.
Nope.. not the issue
Different milliamp chargers, nope.
WTF??
Normally I'd think I did something to it, but I did nothing that I hadn't done at least 200 times already.
I'm convinced Samsung F'd my tablet w/their update, not only that but my $1200.00 drone sits idle over my holiday because my vision app resides on my sgt3.
Ideas?
My best solution so far...
Well its been like 2 days since my sgt3 lost its mind.
Found a solution.
EVGA - Tegra Note 7. (No hyperlinks allowed for me....Yet)
nvidia.ca/object/evga-tegra-note-tablet
DAYUMMMMM.
This thing blows my SGT3 right off the map.
Still would like to find a REAL solution, there's alot of configurations on my SGT3.
But in the meantime I think this'll keep me almost content.
-D-
Just download odin and the firmware for you country and flash it if it gets stuck at the boot get in recvory and wipe and flash once more works a treat
sounds like a bad flash i never let over the air upgrades there trouble always use a pc
Ps take any memory cards out before flashing once booted and working replace memory card
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Just download odin and the firmware for you country and flash it if it gets stuck at the boot get in recvory and wipe and flash once more works a treat
sounds like a bad flash i never let over the air upgrades there trouble always use a pc
Ps take any memory cards out before flashing once booted and working replace memory card
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Thanks Jason, I've not messed w/flashing the firmware through pc on this thing yet.
I've done it w/psp's, motherboards, routers etc, but never w/one of my tabs.
Just to confirm... I dont need a display on my tablet to flash it w/Odin?
dimzin said:
Thanks Jason, I've not messed w/flashing the firmware through pc on this thing yet.
I've done it w/psp's, motherboards, routers etc, but never w/one of my tabs.
Just to confirm... I dont need a display on my tablet to flash it w/Odin?
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No, you don't need the display on your Tab, you just need Kies and Odin on your PC.
Place your Tab in Downloadmode(VolDown+Home+Power,release All buttons when you see the warning, press VolUp) then choose your PDA firmware in Odin(Obtain firmware from SamMobile) an hit start. After this boot into recovery and wipe/factory reset your tab if it's not booting!
Good Luck
Greets Daniel
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No, you don't need the display on your Tab, you just need Kies and Odin on your PC.
Place your Tab in Downloadmode(VolDown+Home+Power,release All buttons when you see the warning, press VolUp) then choose your PDA firmware in Odin(Obtain firmware from SamMobile) an hit start. After this boot into recovery and wipe/factory reset your tab if it's not booting!
Good Luck
Greets Daniel
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Hey Daniel, Thanks for the info.
I found Odin was pretty easy to flash with.
I've tried 4 different FW images for the GT3-7 and taken the unit (almost) completely apart w/the exception of removing the actual digitizer and the lcd.
Same results after each install though.
It boots, plays the boot sound, but no display.
I guess next step is removing the screen.. After that I don't know what to do except possibly getting myself a lcd replacement..
Just might drop it off to one of the local shops and get them to do it that way I won't wind up paying for something and f'ing it up.
No joy w/my sgt3..
Hey Daniel, Thanks for the info.
I found Odin was pretty easy to flash with.
I've tried 4 different FW images for the GT3-7 and taken the unit (almost) completely apart w/the exception of removing the actual digitizer and the lcd.
Same results after each install though.
Even went so far as to try Kies to do the last one.
It boots, plays the boot sound, but no display.
I guess next step is removing the screen.. After that I don't know what to do except possibly getting myself a lcd replacement..
Just might drop it off to one of the local shops and get them to do it that way I won't wind up paying for something and f'ing it up.
No joy w/my sgt3..
So, unluckily today i find myself here lookin' for help with my phone. I had already took a look on other brick threads, but i can't find an appropriate answer to my problem.
I'm (i was) running lineage-14.1-20170602-nightly, i had ne0zone75's TWRP 3.1.0.0-0, and that's how the brick came in a strange way; i was simply on XDA Labs app browsing the forum, when i received a call. I've answered, and when i shut off the call the phone shut off immediately after. I thought it was a reboot, but keeping pressed the power button didn't switched on the phone anymore. So i've tried to remove the battery and re insert it after some minutes, but the only thing i can get is the screen with the samsung logo that goes all black after 5 seconds. I already had other bricks due some errors of mine in the past, but this time it's really difficult.
1: I can't access recovery mode. Ow, how i wish i could.
2: I can access download mode, but after that i reach the ODIN MODE screen with the details of product binary, KNOX, ecc. the phone shuts off again.
3: If i keep the power button pressed, the phone doesn't starts. It only starts if i replug the battery in, but after some seconds it shuts off again.
4: How could a call as another mess up the whole phone?
5: I didn't installed nothing new from at least a week... yesterday an automatic update of the Play Store took place, but except that nothing has been changed. Nothing of nothing! No settings, no apps...
What could i do? Installing Kies with Samsung drivers could help me flashing a stock rom for example? Because at the moment, there isn't too much that i can do with the phone in this state... I hope this little jewel won't have to become a stone to be thrown away. Any help would be great, and really appreciated. Thanks in advance...
Things has got worse. Now my device doesn't starts at all; no vibrations, no signs of life, nothing. I've tried even to put it for 6 hours in my refrigerator, because i've read that the cold temperature could be helpful to fix some broken contacts on some component, but i'm losing hope 'bout it. I supposed that at this point is something hardware-based and not software, because it's just impossible that a call like an other one could be the cause of this hard brick... The only thing is that if connected to my PC, it is being showed as QHSUSB_LOAD. I'll try some methods that i've seen in other forums, like softwares that tries to fix this, but i think that i'll be forced to buy a new device. Neither an usb-jig could help me to force the download mode if the phone is dead in every aspect... the only thing that i still didn't understood, is if a debrick.img on my SD card (sadly i've read that a microSD class 10 with at least 16 GB is required, and i don't have one) could help somehow on a situation like this one of not. Still no one could advice me with some tip, guys
Edit - feel free to close this thread, I have another phone now
Hello,
New to the forum, at least posting have been lurking and reading for years, but this will be my first post.
Mi 10T Pro, stuck in bootloop. I have been trying to get it going again and have been having no luck, so I decided it is time to turn to the pros for some help.
Symptoms:
Bootloops 1 or 2 times to the MIUI logo, then boots to the recovery menu
Not possible to turn of completely, bootloops until battery drains completely
Able to get to the fastboot menu
What I have tried:
I had a suspicion that it was a problem with the power button, so i replaced the ribbon but no improvement (Unless new one is bad also?)
Replaced Battery, no improvements
Tried all the button press combinations to try and do hard reboot and so on
About Device:
Software version: Unknown as the phone broke a long time ago, got a replacement and the phone has been sitting in the drawer...
Phone was never rooted or unlocked in any other way
The phone is open and I could unplug battery or try a new ribbon for the power button (I have a new one on hand)
What I would like to achieve:
Save the data that is on the phone.... This is the main thing I would like to do as there is precious pictures of my young kids and so on....
Get the phone working and use it as an emergency device
Options I think are still available in order of how I would like to attempt them:
Do a software recovery, by installing a stock rom, example: (
)
I don't know what version of rom to download as I don't know what version the phone was on
I don't know if this will work since the bootloader has never been unlocked
Anything else possible before next step?
Reset through the reset menu. and cry over all the lost data (
All suggestions are welcome.
Thank you!
this phone is notorious for needing to be reballed after a few years of use. its a trash phone. join any mi 10T groups in facebook and youll see countless users who had to pay specialist technicians to reball their CPU and Memory chips and even then, they still fail after a few weeks/months.
Thank you for your answer ongkal. So you don't think its worth to try to overwrite the loader? I don't want to have to reball if its a software issue, but will if it comes down to it.
Mainly just want to get the files out, went back to samsung after first phone with xiaomi...
I was just looking at the reball videos on youtube and most of the phones are completely dead, mine still turns on but straight into bootloop. Besides they say it might be due to gaming, which that phone has not seen