[Q] SKY BLUE more like SKY DONE! PHONE WONT BOOT - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4

Hey dudes, check it out bruhs my phone is kinda acting up.
The story goes one day i was using my phone while it was charging, then it turned off and i thought maybe the battery is low. I left it charging overnight thinking it was the battery only but sadly it wasn't. I tried to boot it and failed. Now every time i try to turn on my phone it will shut off by itself. As soon as i put the battery on my phone it automatically boots without pressing any button and shuts off after a couple of seconds. (I've tried a different battery no luck still) Any help would be
much appreciated thanks a lot!:crying:

umichanx said:
Hey dudes, check it out bruhs my phone is kinda acting up.
The story goes one day i was using my phone while it was charging, then it turned off and i thought maybe the battery is low. I left it charging overnight thinking it was the battery only but sadly it wasn't. I tried to boot it and failed. Now every time i try to turn on my phone it will shut off by itself. As soon as i put the battery on my phone it automatically boots without pressing any button and shuts off after a couple of seconds. (I've tried a different battery no luck still) Any help would be
much appreciated thanks a lot!:crying:
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Can you enter Download Mode?
"Press and hold Volume Down, Home and Power buttons, all at the same time."

GameX2 said:
Can you enter Download Mode?
"Press and hold Volume Down, Home and Power buttons, all at the same time."
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Same thing happens it shows up for a couple a seconds then automatically shuts off

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[Q] Desire won't turn on after market crashed

Hi there!
I have got a really strange problem with my desire. Here is what happened:
I opened the market app whilst using mobile internet. The app froze on the loading screen and the phone was unresponsive.
I pulled the battery and powered on again. All seemed fine.
I opened the market again and the exact same thing happened, only this time I can't turn the phone back on.
I have tried pulling the battery. Tried plugging the phone into a charger without the battery then reinserting the battery. Tried charging the battery until the led went green, still no luck.
I had plenty of battery when this happened.
When the phone is on charge, when you press the power button, the led goes out, but the phone does not turn on.
Does anyone know what this might be? or how I can turn my phone on again?
Thanks all!
Bump, does anybody have any idea?
The only idea I have is a hard factory reset:
Try to start phone with pressed volume down and power button, navigate with volume button to "clear storage" and enter with power button.
Swyped from my HTC Desire using XDA App
Wipe dalvilks cache in recovery
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Thanks for the ideas guys. I actually can't power on the device at all. Can't boot into recovery, can't do anything as far as I can tell.
Any other ideas?
kirky_D said:
Tried plugging the phone into a charger without the battery then reinserting the battery.
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What the hell are you doing to ur desire?
Try removing battery for a minute, then re insert it
Then press volume down and without release it, press also power button and wait 5 seconds with both pressed to see if it boots into bootloader and go into recovery too
andQlimax said:
What the hell are you doing to ur desire?
Try removing battery for a minute, then re insert it
Then press volume down and without release it, press also power button and wait 5 seconds with both pressed to see if it boots into bootloader and go into recovery too
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I removed the charger before putting the battery in. I saw someone recommend it on another forum with a similar problem.
I have tried to get into recovery after leaving the battery out for 12 hours, after charging the phone until the led was green, it seems I've tried everything to get this to work but nothing.
I'm really annoyed as well because I'm 2 weeks out of warranty. It just seems so odd that a software crash could cause all this.
Anybody else got any ideas?
what happens when you press.. volume down and power.. can you see the hboot screen.. is your phone recognised in ur pc?
jhonybravo4u said:
what happens when you press.. volume down and power.. can you see the hboot screen.. is your phone recognised in ur pc?
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Absolutely nothing. Totally blank screen, no vibrate nothing. Phone is not recognised by pc. The only things that happen are the following:
When plugged into the charger the orange led comes on, and eventually turns green.
When plugged in, if I press the power button the led turns off, but nothing else happens.
I'm totally at a loss. I called HTC and am sending it in for warranty repair. They said they have extended the warranty to 2 years which is a bit of a turn up for the books, so hopefully they will fix it for free and not charge me for it
Try this:
Boot into hboot
Count (slowly) to 20
Then press the power button once
Connect the usb
Start command prompt
Type "fastboot devices"
For this to work you need to install Android SDK see here http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK
If you get anything than somebody can help you. I read somewhere about this issue but I can't find it anymore.

How I "fixed" a "brick" on Xperia SL

Hello,
I'm a new user and this is my first post here. I felt the need to "contribute" with my somewhat of a unique case.
I bought the Xperia SL 48h ago, and managed to "brick" it. The phone just died on me during regular use, I was in astro manager at the moment of the brick, the screen gradually turned off, and the phone became unresponsive soon afterwards. It didn't react when I plugged in the charger or when I connected it to my pc, the LED was dead, power + vol up button combo was also useless, and the pc saw my device as "QHSUSB_DLOAD".
I managed to solve this issue by holding power + vol up button combination for four (4!) minutes. I didn't really have a stopwatch, but I was in the bus on road to the store to return the phone, and just thought I might give persistence and stubbornness a chance. Three bus stops later, the phone vibrates and just turns on normally, like nothing happened.
I don't know how bugs like this occur, nor do I know how to prevent them; I am going to pretend this was just a work of gremlins.
Bottom line - if power on + vol up button combo didn't work for you for a 5 second, 10 second or a 30 second time-span, hold them buttons for a couple of minutes and pray that it works. I hope this helps someone.
Best regards
Did it have enough charge?
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Seems your phone got stuck and turned the screen off.
Holding power+volume Up forces it to shutdown without messing with the battery-removal.
So you might have been able to restart it successfully.
bluechelsea said:
Did it have enough charge?
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The battery was at 14% at the time of power+vol up wake up. I didn't charge it though, I plugged in the charger just to see if there was a LED on, but there wasn't any LED response whatsoever.
razormc said:
Seems your phone got stuck and turned the screen off. Holding power+volume Up forces it to shutdown without messing with the battery-removal.
So you might have been able to restart it successfully.
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That must be it. At the moment of the brick, screen gradually turned off, with darker colors becoming instantly black, and brigther colors getting a yellow tint just before everything vanished from the screen. Thing is though, the phone didn't react to the power+vol up combo right away, but two hours later and almost four minutes of holding the buttons.
One more thing that I noticed was, when the phone was connected to my pc, if I held the power+vol up, the pc would add/remove my hardware in a cycle, or at least play the sound of a device connected/disconnected. The phone still remained dead, but returned later for a miraculous wake up.
sl0e said:
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One more thing that I noticed was, when the phone was connected to my pc, if I held the power+vol up, the pc would add/remove my hardware in a cycle, or at least play the sound of a device connected/disconnected. The phone still remained dead, but returned later for a miraculous wake up.
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I'm not an expert, but this is probably your phone entering fastboot mode and then being disconnected due to incorrect drivers on the PC.
Glad your phone came back though. Comatose phones are terrifying, no?
razormc said:
I'm not an expert, but this is probably your phone entering fastboot mode and then being disconnected due to incorrect drivers on the PC.
Glad your phone came back though. Comatose phones are terrifying, no?
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I'm not out of the woods yet.
Got myself a second brick, and I've been trying to work it out for the past 24+ hours. I won't post about it on this thread, I've posted here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=39847797&postcount=532 , but I will report back with any advancements on the matter.

Brick maybe?

Hello there, I was installing Recovery using this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682, I only went up to the first part of unrooting the phone where it asks me to connect my and install te recovery, my phone after the root did not want to turn on. I tried using the Volume +/- along with the home key, nothing, it just vibrates and nothing. I tried pulling out the battery and the same thing happened, no matter what I did, it vibrates and won't turn on. Also when I hook it up to the charger and try turning on it vibrates and it keeps vibrating in loops, around 2-3 sec apart. What is wrong with my phone? Please don't tell me it's a brick, I just got it yesterday ;p
infernel250 said:
Hello there, I was installing Recovery using this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746682, I only went up to the first part of unrooting the phone where it asks me to connect my and install te recovery, my phone after the root did not want to turn on. I tried using the Volume +/- along with the home key, nothing, it just vibrates and nothing. I tried pulling out the battery and the same thing happened, no matter what I did, it vibrates and won't turn on. Also when I hook it up to the charger and try turning on it vibrates and it keeps vibrating in loops, around 2-3 sec apart. What is wrong with my phone? Please don't tell me it's a brick, I just got it yesterday ;p
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I think this kit is honestly the easiest way to brick your phone. There are simply too many options, most of them have no real use for this phone, and the free version never gets updated. Honestly think it's a bad move for people who are new to the game.
To get in download mode:
Start with the phone off.
Press and hold the home button and volume down button.
Press the power button until the phone vibrates.
Release the power button.
To get in recovery mode.
Start with the phone off.
Press and hold the home button and volume up button.
Press the power button until the phone vibrates.
Release the power button.
Release the volume up and home button when the blue text appears in the top left corner of the screen.
If these won't work, you are bricked. Time for JTAG.
I agree 100%. That kit seemed pretty helpful for some when this was still pretty new, but recently it seems there are more reports of failures (or worse) than successes. When you get this fixed I suggest reading all the stickies and then take it from there.
Good luck
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Phone just stopped turning on..

well...this kinda ruined my night yesterday...I went to a concert yesterday around 8 and my phone had 70% and I was checking facebook or something like that and without no notification or warning it froze and turned off on me. I figured it was a normal freeze..and I attempted to turn it back on and nothing happened. Went to my car to try to charge it and nothing. Not even a charging light. A day has passed after the concert was over (could not take pictures, thanks htc..) and now the "dead battery symbol" comes up and the orange light keeps BLINKING..to my understanding it means that it is not charging? What could it be..anybody could help me out .maybe a soft reset? no charging it for a couple of minutes?
Anything would help. Thanks
Try pressing and holding power and volume up?
I'm sure you've already tried that, but can you confirm that you have left it plugged in atleast for 5 hours continuously after this happened.
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And hold the power and volume buttons down in a well lit environment, there's a "pocket check".
You can also try by hold the power and volume buttons UP
Thanks for the replies , i have tried those opctions. Holding the power and volume UP and thencanother try wih the DOWN the with both. It just blinks orange now. I just woke up and plugged it in again, am going to work and going to leave it like that, hopefully that does the trick. Should i call htc ? It hasnt even been a month since the phones came out.. I did not do anything to "kill" the battery
Ofcourse you may call Htc.
the same happened to me now.did u find a solution?????
Have you got delvolper options enabled, if so when connected to your computer you could try Adb reboot or Adb reboot bootloader
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Have you got delvolper options enabled, if so when connected to your computer you could try Adb reboot or Adb reboot bootloader
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its not detected atall
zizu66 said:
its not detected atall
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Well only thing I can suggest is you leave it on charge over night. Then try & power it on if no go try and hold the volume up and power button while plugged in for at least a minute if that Dosent work take it back where you got it from.
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Unplug phone. Hold vol up and power for 10 seconds, let go, try to power on phone.

Unplugged phone from computer charging and it stuck on charge screen. Won't boot.

I was charging my phone connected to my laptop, the phone was powered off. I unplugged it and it just stuck like it was still plugged in charging. The charging light is on but trying to rest or boot does nothing. Just makes the charging light turn off for a second then back on.
Is it bricked? What should I do?
UPDATE
I let the battery drain out overnight and plugged it into the wall socket this morning. Now the charge light blinks but no charge icon pops up and it still doesn't power on. When trying to boot it into recovery, the icon pops up again. When I unplug it from charging, the charge light still blinks and the icon stays still. I think it is going to have to be a paperweight.
Anyone ever had this happen?
mkbeyer said:
I let the battery drain out overnight and plugged it into the wall socket this morning. Now the charge light blinks but no charge icon pops up and it still doesn't power on. When trying to boot it into recovery, the icon pops up again.
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First, let the phone charge on wall socket for several hours. This is sometimes needed if the battery is allowed to drain to shutoff, and there is unsufficient battery voltage to boot/power-on the phone.
There is no button combo to directly access recovery on this phone, so I think you mean you tried to boot to bootloader (power+vol down). In some conditions like this (battery drained, stuck on boot screen, etc.), you will need to hold button combos for a minute or more before it will reboot. So try to just hold the buttons longer. Also try to do this (hold for a minute+) for power+vol up (this button combo forces a reboot in most situations) or simply just the power button ("regular" power-on).
Power + vol up would have been the best way to force a reboot (works in virtually every condition short of a true brick), rather then let the battery drain to shut-off. Letting the battery drain to shutoff is never a great idea, if it can be avoided, for the reason already mentioned.
redpoint73 said:
First, let the phone charge on wall socket for several hours. This is sometimes needed if the battery is allowed to drain to shutoff, and there is unsufficient battery voltage to boot/power-on the phone.
There is no button combo to directly access recovery on this phone, so I think you mean you tried to boot to bootloader (power+vol down). In some conditions like this (battery drained, stuck on boot screen, etc.), you will need to hold button combos for a minute or more before it will reboot. So try to just hold the buttons longer. Also try to do this (hold for a minute+) for power+vol up (this button combo forces a reboot in most situations) or simply just the power button ("regular" power-on).
Power + vol up would have been the best way to force a reboot (works in virtually every condition short of a true brick), rather then let the battery drain to shut-off. Letting the battery drain to shutoff is never a great idea, if it can be avoided, for the reason already mentioned.
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Oh man! I was freaking for a while. I tried like everything except holding the buttons down so long. That reset it. It booted. When it booted up I tried to update the with the OTA in settings and it locked again on bootscreen. I did the hard reset again. It didn't update. I want to update it to Android 6.0, but it keeps running into problems some error "unexpected contents on partition - installation aborted." Something like that.
Thinking of trying to flash the OTA or RUU. Do you think that is a good idea?
mkbeyer said:
Oh man! I was freaking for a while. I tried like everything except holding the buttons down so long. That reset it. It booted.
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I did the same a while back. Found my M8 had powered off overnight. Tried the button combos, which didn't seem to work, and thought it was spontaneously bricked. Finally just tried holding power (or maybe power+vol up, don't remember exactly) for a long time, and it finally booted, leading to much relief.
mkbeyer said:
Thinking of trying to flash the OTA or RUU. Do you think that is a good idea?
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Flash the OTA how?
RUU should be fine, if you version has an RUU.

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