Hi, I have a dropped MDA III. I Replaced the broken touch screen, now nothing works. No lights or screen, just gets hot when on charge. Won't hard reset and can't get into bootmode.
any ideas, apart from the bin?
rocketrobot said:
Hi, I have a dropped MDA III. I Replaced the broken touch screen, now nothing works. No lights or screen, just gets hot when on charge. Won't hard reset and can't get into bootmode.
any ideas, apart from the bin?
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I don't think the dilithium crystals can take it any longer.
she canny take much more than this cap'n
Hi friend ,
please check follow this.
+ Power botton
+ Battery contact ( any cracked on it ??)
+ Re-solder flash and RAM, and power IC by hotgun
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The first time I changed the tochscreen digitiser on my Orbit I had this. After much messing about I tried putting the cases back together without the power button in the case, and when I pressed the power button inside with my stylus it worked fine. The reason I tried this was because months before my power button was messing-about, working intermittently.
I tried fitting the button back in and re-assembling the cases but still the phone wouldn't come on. In the end I shaved about 1mm off the silicone press-pad on the back of the power button and it worked 1st time.
hello.
I have problem with power button on my galaxy note 2. It stop work because the phone got a little water. I was drying the phone few hours and it was working, but the power button stopped respond after few use.
Is any way to power on phone without power button?
Or is any easy way to fix power button.
You shouldve waited a few days before starting the phone, 2days at the least. You probably still got some water so your best bet is to turn it off and place it either on top of your refrigerator or rice pack for a 2days and then try. There's no other easy way to turn your phone on.
Sent from the rabbit hole.
I searched as best I could so please bare with me..
Brand new e971, less than a week old and I managed to drop it in the toilet bending over to tuck in a shoelace after I took a leak. Fell out of my sweater pocket, and right in the bowl.. that'll teach me to put the seat down.
Anyway, I was out somewhere and obviously didnt have the sim key or any tools to crack the back and pop the battery..I 'windmilled' to get what I could out.. but that was the best I could do. I held the power button down hoping itd shut off and it eventually did, flashed something on the screen and that was it.
When I was able to I opened it up and popped the battery and dried whatever water was inside, whcih there was some.. took the mainboard out, blew it off with compressed air (it was actually dry, all the covers worked well). Put it back together sans battery and put it in rice for 36~ hours or so (would have waited longer, but I was confident I got the majority of the water out in the first place).
Phone won't power on though. The best I can do is get it to start download mode by pressed vol up+down and inserting the USB. Plugging in the USB on its own sees the charge indicator flash red intermittently, in a very long slow frequency - im thinking the battery is fried, maybe the power button too. The LG logo comes on the screen for a second and disapears for about 5, and repeats this cycle.
I've never rooted or messed with anything like this before but someone said I may be able to reflash the phone and have it work.. but I really have no clue. Any advice would be appreciated.. like I said this is brand new :/
How to "Unbrick": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
That reflashes new stuff.
If you hold down Volume Down + Power Key you should get into factory reset, can you see if that works or you might have fried the storage or something.
If you somehow get it to work but need battery you have here:
http://www.etradesupply.com/lg/optimus/lg-optimus-g-e975.html
Which ships World wide I think and pretty decent price.
Hope it works and please come back and tell us how it went.
wargreymon89 said:
How to "Unbrick": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2010624
That reflashes new stuff.
If you hold down Volume Down + Power Key you should get into factory reset, can you see if that works or you might have fried the storage or something.
If you somehow get it to work but need battery you have here:
http://www.etradesupply.com/lg/optimus/lg-optimus-g-e975.html
Which ships World wide I think and pretty decent price.
Hope it works and please come back and tell us how it went.
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Thanks for the response
vol down + power key has no response
Im tempted to think the power switch is broken and the battery shorted and is dead, but I am no expert
If I plug it into USB all it does is flash the LG logo, no lights nothing.
if I hold the vol down button down, when the LG logo flashes the back/home/search buttons illuminate for a second, and occasionally the red light will come on for a second, but thats it, other than being able to get into download mode the phone is a total brick. I'll check out your link when I get home. I have insurance but there is still a replacement fee and I can't afford it right now.. and the fact that I opened the phone I think they may try to **** me over with that even though its clearly water damage (indicators are all purple/pink)
thanks again
Dudley Do-Right said:
Thanks for the response
vol down + power key has no response
Im tempted to think the power switch is broken and the battery shorted and is dead, but I am no expert
If I plug it into USB all it does is flash the LG logo, no lights nothing.
if I hold the vol down button down, when the LG logo flashes the back/home/search buttons illuminate for a second, and occasionally the red light will come on for a second, but thats it, other than being able to get into download mode the phone is a total brick. I'll check out your link when I get home. I have insurance but there is still a replacement fee and I can't afford it right now.. and the fact that I opened the phone I think they may try to **** me over with that even though its clearly water damage (indicators are all purple/pink)
thanks again
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If the red light flash, it's usually because the power button is hold down. I think your power button might be stuck. Also try to plug it in wall and no on computer USB.
chadouming said:
If the red light flash, it's usually because the power button is hold down. I think your power button might be stuck. Also try to plug it in wall and no on computer USB.
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I was at work with the phone (dropped it out somewhere and took it apart and left there) so I had not tried plugging into a regular wall charger
Plugged it into a charger, backlight came on and the LG logo flashed, went away and flashed again, but a lot faster this time, and then I got a message "battery too low to power on!! I assume its charging, or trying to?!?! The red light goes bright, and then dims to nothing, and then goes bright again. Pressing the power button turns the screen on to the "too low to power on" screen again, and pressing again turns it off as per normal!
I'm kind of excited now, it may just be the battery after all.
Now, either the water shorted it and ruined it (and ill be checking the phone closely to see the lipo doesnt blow up on me..), or somehow the battery fully discharged? The battery was pretty full around the time of the toilet incident, but stranger things have happened right?
Dudley Do-Right said:
I was at work with the phone (dropped it out somewhere and took it apart and left there) so I had not tried plugging into a regular wall charger
Plugged it into a charger, backlight came on and the LG logo flashed, went away and flashed again, but a lot faster this time, and then I got a message "battery too low to power on!! I assume its charging, or trying to?!?! The red light goes bright, and then dims to nothing, and then goes bright again. Pressing the power button turns the screen on to the "too low to power on" screen again, and pressing again turns it off as per normal!
I'm kind of excited now, it may just be the battery after all.
Now, either the water shorted it and ruined it (and ill be checking the phone closely to see the lipo doesnt blow up on me..), or somehow the battery fully discharged? The battery was pretty full around the time of the toilet incident, but stranger things have happened right?
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The indicator going from dim to bright during charging is pretty normal. It also means your battery is charging. Give it a full charge and see how it goes. And do try keeping your phone in your trouser pockets. It's safer that way.
MarcSinger said:
The indicator going from dim to bright during charging is pretty normal. It also means your battery is charging. Give it a full charge and see how it goes. And do try keeping your phone in your trouser pockets. It's safer that way.
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I left it on the wall charger for a little over an hour but the phone appeared to make no progress so I unplugged it deeming the battery dead, that and I didnt want to run the risk of anything bad happening charging a dead battery (im a little leery with these lipo's due to my RC experience with them..). Maybe I'll try again for a while this evening.. but since the battery had a full charge prior to toileting, I can't imagine it totally discharging; is this possible? The other not so nice reality is that maybe the power circuit on the mainboard fried and its not reading the battery properly?
Yes.. will definitely have to keep phones in my trousers and put all seats down from now on..
So I'll try charging again for a longer time period to see what happens, otherwise I'll be ordering a battery on Monday and waiting about a week to two weeks for it
I'll keep the thread updated as much as I can without double posting
Thanks for the response
Well.. you'll never believe this but.. it works. Flawlessly as if the toilet never happened..
I tried the insurance route being that a battery shipped to me would cost half the price of a claimed replacement and it would have been a gamble.. so I went that route. Was told they denied my claim because my insurance was not activated because I need to make an outgoing phone call.. I only ever text and had not made one..
So down in the dumps and considering spending $25 shipping on a $30 battery, I went home and decided to try the phone one more time by reseating the battery..
I plugged it into the charger and got a blue battery charging.. I pressed the power on button and the phone came to life..
Not sure what the hell happened, maybe the battery needed to dry out inside or it wasnt seated just right the last time I tried but everything is working flawlessly.. wow. I am in shock.
Now I guess its time to root it
Thanks everyone for the advice and tips, but it seems all I needed was some time and luck!
My tmobile galaxy s3 was turning on by itself as soon as i put the battery in it. The phone would stay on for about 5 seconds then turn off. This repeated itself over and over again as soon as i put in the battery in.
I took it in to get repaired and the guy told me its the power switch so he replaced it.
I rooted my phone and put a 4.3 rom on it. Everything started up fine and installed properly.
2 days later the same issues on it turning on by itself and turning off. I took it in to the same shop and they are blaming me for a bad root.
Any thoughts?
Hackit5 said:
My tmobile galaxy s3 was turning on by itself as soon as i put the battery in it. The phone would stay on for about 5 seconds then turn off. This repeated itself over and over again as soon as i put in the battery in.
I took it in to get repaired and the guy told me its the power switch so he replaced it.
I rooted my phone and put a 4.3 rom on it. Everything started up fine and installed properly.
2 days later the same issues on it turning on by itself and turning off. I took it in to the same shop and they are blaming me for a bad root.
Any thoughts?
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It could be a problem with the power button. I had a similar problem with my gs3 when I bought it used. If you take the battery out and then put the battery back in and the phone boots up by itself without touching the power button then it might be the same problem I had..
I don't recommend this fix for everyone with a power button problem but in my case it fixed it and it's been perfect ever since I did this..
I fixed mine by taking my phone apart and taking my dremel tool with a fine grinding wheel and sanding just a millimeter or two off of the face of the internal power button. The silver power button that you see on the outside of the phone is just a cover that presses on the internal button which is just a tiny micro switch. I found that the external button was always putting pressure on the internal button and causing the phone to constantly reboot. By sanding a bit off of the internal button it gave it some space so it wasn't always putting pressure on the button. There's a few video's on youtube that show how to take the phone apart to get to the power button. It's very easy.
I have an OG 2016 XL. I swapped the battery but haven't glued it back together as I wanted to make sure everything was working first. I can't get it to show up in adb devices, even with holding the power button. I've also tried holding power with volume down. I currently have the battery disconnected and the phone unplugged in case my old school PC thought of draining some form of CMOS would help. I've swapped the battery before and didn't have this issue.
It's an iFixIt battery so I don't think it's the battery. If you guys think it's the battery, I'll contact iFixIt.