Hey guys,
Something really strange is going on with my USB port on my Note 4 Dev edition. All of a sudden USB stopped working, when connected to a PC, it would only charge, but no Data whatsoever. After trying to connect it to a bunch of different PCs, different cables, restoring to old nandroid, nothing worked. When plugging in the power cord when the phone was off, the phone would flash a gray battery logo and then it would go away, not charging the phone. I read online somewhere, to try holding down, power and home while the gray battery icon flashed, and it did actually start charging again! However, data was still broken. I read somewhere else that someone said to pull the battery while in download mode, which I did, but that seems to have disabled it again, and now the same trick before is not even getting charging functionality back.
I am really at a loss, I am positive I need to do something in Odin mode to get things back together, but I've tried all these combinations and nothing is working. Odin in Windows will currently not detect anything either, so I am in trouble here. Any ideas?
Polishzx said:
Hey guys,
Something really strange is going on with my USB port on my Note 4 Dev edition. All of a sudden USB stopped working, when connected to a PC, it would only charge, but no Data whatsoever. After trying to connect it to a bunch of different PCs, different cables, restoring to old nandroid, nothing worked. When plugging in the power cord when the phone was off, the phone would flash a gray battery logo and then it would go away, not charging the phone. I read online somewhere, to try holding down, power and home while the gray battery icon flashed, and it did actually start charging again! However, data was still broken. I read somewhere else that someone said to pull the battery while in download mode, which I did, but that seems to have disabled it again, and now the same trick before is not even getting charging functionality back.
I am really at a loss, I am positive I need to do something in Odin mode to get things back together, but I've tried all these combinations and nothing is working. Odin in Windows will currently not detect anything either, so I am in trouble here. Any ideas?
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Just curious do you have security ie password,fingerprint or swipe activated for your lock screen?
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Of usually i search and search until I find an answer but I have now idea what to do...
-T-Mobile Dash with a Cingular Sim running Kavanna 6.1 (and kavanna has ran fine on it for the most part)
-Phone randomly froze (wouldnt let me type a text msg)
-Powered off
-Went to power it back on and nothing -no lights, no nothing
-Tried the two softkeys and power button for two seconds
-Tried te camera button and power button
-Pulled batter multiple times and pulled all cards from it
-When it is plugged into a wall I dont even get a power charging light....
Any ideas? I cant afford a new phone
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Of usually i search and search until I find an answer but I have now idea what to do...
-T-Mobile Dash with a Cingular Sim running Kavanna 6.1 (and kavanna has ran fine on it for the most part)
-Phone randomly froze (wouldnt let me type a text msg)
-Powered off
-Went to power it back on and nothing -no lights, no nothing
-Tried the two softkeys and power button for two seconds
-Tried te camera button and power button
-Pulled batter multiple times and pulled all cards from it
-When it is plugged into a wall I dont even get a power charging light....
Any ideas? I cant afford a new phone
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looks like your battery is gone Try with another battery
woulnt I be able to get some sort of power or light with the batter pulled and it plugged in? cause I dont....
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woulnt I be able to get some sort of power or light with the batter pulled and it plugged in? cause I dont....
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Not if your battery is completely waste it. Check if your battery pins in your dash make full contact with your battery, because that can cause a problem (very odd, but it happens). If not, try another battery.
Have you checked your charger, I guess is damaged because if your battery is damaged or if is no battery at all and you connect the charger the led will turn red.
sam happened w me, no solution yet
hate to tell you that you might have bricked your phone,
the same happened to my excalibur, when i tried to flash it -mistakenly- with the wrong rom,
thing is; the rom is controlling the power charging process and the battery support to the device, if something went wrong with the rom for any reason; then no instructions are sent to the battery neither the charger, therefore: no power sign of any in the device.
i couldn't find an answer to fix my dash, but i think the solution is either changing the rom or JTAG-ing it might solve the problem, though i have no tools neither knowledge to do so.
sorry pal, the bright side is: you are a member of (BDC) the Bricked Dash Club
cheers
bootrecord said:
hate to tell you that you might have bricked your phone,
the same happened to my excalibur, when i tried to flash it -mistakenly- with the wrong rom,
thing is; the rom is controlling the power charging process and the battery support to the device, if something went wrong with the rom for any reason; then no instructions are sent to the battery neither the charger, therefore: no power sign of any in the device.
i couldn't find an answer to fix my dash, but i think the solution is either changing the rom or JTAG-ing it might solve the problem, though i have no tools neither knowledge to do so.
sorry pal, the bright side is: you are a member of (BDC) the Bricked Dash Club
cheers
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With the information provided it hasn't been your same case due that he hasn´t flashed any other rom, so basically he can try another battery and see what happens.
errrrrr
New Battery - Still no lights and using the reset features found in the unbricking tutorial do not work.
Tried using a cable from my comp to give power to phone so it isnt power cable
So what now? I cant even get to a bootloader screen or anything.... I cant afford a new phone ERRR
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Was plugging in the USB cable and looks like it gets a connection only when it is plugged in a little but this not just at the end that connects to the phone (it happened when the phone was already plugged into the cable and I was plugging it into the comp and vice versa) Um so that is strange - the light does not stay on and when the battery is in the phone I do not get that quick red flash - so it still doesnt work and cant do anything
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New Battery - Still no lights and using the reset features found in the unbricking tutorial do not work.
Tried using a cable from my comp to give power to phone so it isnt power cable
So what now? I cant even get to a bootloader screen or anything.... I cant afford a new phone ERRR
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Was plugging in the USB cable and looks like it gets a connection only when it is plugged in a little but this not just at the end that connects to the phone (it happened when the phone was already plugged into the cable and I was plugging it into the comp and vice versa) Um so that is strange - the light does not stay on and when the battery is in the phone I do not get that quick red flash - so it still doesnt work and cant do anything
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Maybe is your USB port causing the problem.
Last night up did a clean install of starburst 1.9.8r and all was well. My battery ran down to 2% before I plugged it in. The battery continued to run down and turned off while plugged in. It continued to turn itself back on, boot up, and then turn off. I pulled the battery, put it back in and the phone charged to 100% while off.
This morning I am having major issues.
1. The screen keeps turning on for no reason. If I turn it off, it turns back on in a few seconds. A few times, it has come on brighter than the highest brightness setting.
2. The phone will not connect to a computer via USB. I've tried 3 cables, 2 computers, USB debugging on and off, CWM, and Odin. Nothing will work.
3. The phone charges when plugged into both USB and AC, but most of the time the touchscreen does not work while plugged in.
4. The phone keeps freezing and only a battery pull will fix it.
I have tried everything I can think of to fix it. I tried to reinstall the rom, I have restored a nandroid, and downloaded and installed a different rom.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I have now tried 4 computers and countles cables.
When I plug in the usb, windows makes the sound as if it is connected, then quickly disconnects. It continues to do this constantly. Some of the times it says it is connected to mtp usb. I've read everyting I can read and can't find a solution.
This sounds more like a hardware problem than anything. Try flashing back to EG30 stock and a factory data reset. Do you still have these issues? If so try a different battery. Still have problems? If so most likely you are having an odd hardware problem.
Hey guys im just looking to get pointed in the right direction, i never like asking for handouts but im butfuzzled,
this is what happened, some kid messed up the settings on the phone so i needed to return it to stock. i tried to do a master reset through the settings but it just stayed at the download screen for about 30 min so i decided to hold the power button down and do a hard restart, the phone comes back on and i go through and put the phone back to stock manually, remove all sorts of widgets, bla bla bla.
the phone was good for about a week and half then all of a sudden it just went dead, no lights come on when i charge it, no battery indicator on the screen, its not recognized by usb, it does not charge by usb, it wont go into download mode holding the three buttons down.
things ive done so far, search for about an hour and i still cant figure this out
ive tried doing battery pulls, ive tried downloading kies and odin as well. Ive followed the how to get the phone working with odin but nothing the phone still has a black screen, no lights come on, no nothing.
what is going on with this thing? can someone please help me cause this thing is jacked up and my boss is going to make me pay for it if its broken
Ninosmaxima said:
Hey guys im just looking to get pointed in the right direction, i never like asking for handouts but im butfuzzled,
this is what happened, some kid messed up the settings on the phone so i needed to return it to stock. i tried to do a master reset through the settings but it just stayed at the download screen for about 30 min so i decided to hold the power button down and do a hard restart, the phone comes back on and i go through and put the phone back to stock manually, remove all sorts of widgets, bla bla bla.
the phone was good for about a week and half then all of a sudden it just went dead, no lights come on when i charge it, no battery indicator on the screen, its not recognized by usb, it does not charge by usb, it wont go into download mode holding the three buttons down.
things ive done so far, search for about an hour and i still cant figure this out
ive tried doing battery pulls, ive tried downloading kies and odin as well. Ive followed the how to get the phone working with odin but nothing the phone still has a black screen, no lights come on, no nothing.
what is going on with this thing? can someone please help me cause this thing is jacked up and my boss is going to make me pay for it if its broken
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Sounds like you are having the same problem I have with my Galaxy S II. Did you or anyone else install any custom roms on the device? If so there are many known issues with this happening and NO solutions as of this far. Try getting a battery that is fully charged and see if the phone will come one with that, if it will then you are not completely stuck but there still is no way to fix it without getting a USB JIG from ebay/amazon etc. to try and get into download mode and restore the stock rom through Odin. hope this helps
Also read this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1372823&highlight=USB+-working
Agree with the above post, but the Samsung USB jigs are very inexpensive on eBay, only a few dollars shipped. I have one, and it saved my formerly bricked (no download mode and unresponsive) Galaxy S 4G.
Hello everyone,
having major USB issues on my GNex. It's not charging anymore, but when the phone is off, it displays a charging animation. I could get it to charge once since this occurred, I left it plugged in overnight on my Mac (phone turned off). Did the same thing last night, no charge at all.
Mac OSX does not recognize the device, my Windows machine keeps telling me something like "the connected device is not working properly and can't be used... ". This message pops up every few seconds, so I guess it's constantly connecting and disconnecting. I can't access the internal storage on both systems.
My first guess was a hardware defect. But when I try to boot into recovery mode, a screen instantly pops up that shows Andy and displays a message: "Downloading. Do not turn off target.". In the upper left corner it displays " ODIN MODE" in small red letters.
When I press the power button in this screen (there is a big arrow pointing to the button with "start" written in it) the phone just normally reboots.
I can't get into fastboot mode because of this. I can get into CWM Recovery when i use the reboot into recovery option built in the ROM.
I dunno much about Odin (next to nothing). Has it something to do with Samsungs Kies? Could it be that something has put my phone in this "ODIN MODE" and it constantly tries to download something, making the USB port unusable? The port is not completely broken, as the phone displays a charging animation when it's turned off... so there is some connectivity left!
Thoughts coming up that this could be some kind of software issue. If there is a possibility to get out of the Odin Mode, it may solve the problem.
The phone is unlocked and rooted, running AOKP Milestone 5 and franco kernel.
I tried to restore an older nandroid, but it did not change anything.
Would send it in for exchange, but not able to relock the bootloader due to no fastboot access. If it can be confirmed that this is a hardware problem, I have to pay for the repair, I'm fine with that.
Has anybody any ideas that could be helpful? Any help is much appreciated, thank you in advance!
Do a search and you will find at least 30 helpful threads. Basically you only need to replace your USB charging board and it works again. Should be a warranty issue, but Samsung has really been an ass on handling this issue lately and claiming water damage.
I have mentioned it many times here: this problem can be probably solved by thoroughly cleaning your USB with soft toothbrush.
True, I also cleaned my port but it only fixed it temporarily.
Thanks guys. Tried to clean the port, nothing changed.
Ordered an OEM charging board off ebay, hope changing it will fix the issue.
Only thing I'm wondering about is, that the phone is stuck in Odin Mode when I boot it up with Vol. - and the Power Switch. So I downloaded Odin but it does not recognize the phone...
I am also facing the same problem. I am currently using the phone by charging the battery externally. Can someone confirm that changing the USB flex cable is the solution ?
Just posted in another thread but it is definitely the USB port for me. Using an HTC Vision (Google g2)
Hello everyone. My brother has the SM-T320. It doesn't power on at all. But if I plug the tablet directly into an outlet or laptop, it turns on but immediately goes to "recovery booting" and looping and not actually turning on. I can press the Power+Volume Down buttons to go to Download mode. I have three laptops at my disposal. I installed the Samsung USB drivers on two, and just Samsung Kies on the other. I have also tried different Odin versions (3.07 and 3.09) and it still won't connect. I also bought a different battery, and even if I leave it charging (aka bootlooping), if I disconnect it, it turns off. Essentially, I think the firmware is messed up and simply doesn't recognize the battery. So that's why I wanted to flash a stock recovery. Any ideas what I can try? Thanks a lot for the help!
I should also mention that I tested battery connection (tablet plugged into an outlet with the battery removed) with a volt meter and I gut 4.45V, which I think is fine?
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Hello everyone. My brother has the SM-T320. It doesn't power on at all. But if I plug the tablet directly into an outlet or laptop, it turns on but immediately goes to "recovery booting" and looping and not actually turning on. I can press the Power+Volume Down buttons to go to Download mode. I have three laptops at my disposal. I installed the Samsung USB drivers on two, and just Samsung Kies on the other. I have also tried different Odin versions (3.07 and 3.09) and it still won't connect. I also bought a different battery, and even if I leave it charging (aka bootlooping), if I disconnect it, it turns off. Essentially, I think the firmware is messed up and simply doesn't recognize the battery. So that's why I wanted to flash a stock recovery. Any ideas what I can try? Thanks a lot for the help!
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OK so it is in download mode when you connect it to Odin?
Hey everyone, I got the problem partly fixed. I was able to reset it to original firmware by using the Samsung kies3 software. It somehow was able to recognize the device even though Odin couldn't. However, turns out, the reason tablet would turn on only when plugged in is because the battery wasn't connected completely. The battery connector on the motherboard itself is separating and so the pins are not touching the board completely. My ghetto temporary fixed was to cut and stick part of a bobby pin over it to clamp it in place. However, this will probably damage the connector/board in the long term. I'm not very good with soldering parts/pins that are this small, and nor do I have special equipment besides solder and soldering iron, so I'm trying to figure another clever way of holding it strongly in place. If anyone has any idea how to go about that, it would be appreciated.