BACKGROUND:
At first, it just started turning off for no reason (probably a month and a half ago).
Then this week, it would start to randomly turn off, and start vibrating constantly when charging. After fiddling with the buttons, it would eventually find itself into download mode and then later turn itself on.
NOW:
Monday morning, after several days of draining the battery to 0% (due to me solely charging it for an hour a day), the phone went dead. Then, that night, upon trying to charge it and turn it on, it remained stuck on a black screen. After taking out the battery, it would continuously beep while still connected to the charger. As soon as I put in the battery, it would become COMPLETELY unresponsive, with and without the charger. After fiddling with it for over an hour, I put it down and slept, leaving the battery and charge in the phone.
Tuesday morning, I clicked the power button, and the phone flashed to the lock screen. It displayed it was at 0% battery, but I think it showed a charging sign. I used the phone for almost 2 minutes, checking my texts, before it again went completely black. The phone became completely unresponsive (no beeping or anything, regardless of anything I did). I connected it to a wall charger again, and left it there for the entire afternoon.
Then when I picked it up at around 6 o clock, I discovered that the continuous beeping stopped, and it would only beep after holding the power button for around 5 seconds. It could beep regardless of whether the battery was out or not.
After charging it all that night, I found I could make it flash the Samsung logo for a fraction of a second after holding down both volume buttons and the power button. I looked it up, and supposedly it brings you to recovery mode, but I believe my phone is switching off immediately after bringing up the logo.
At around 12, Tuesday night, I again decided to hold down the power button (just to reassure myself of it still somewhat functioning), and it powered on for around ten seconds (!!!) . It got all the way to the end of the pink loading bar screen, but then beeped and restarted. The second time, it lasted only around three seconds, without even getting to the loading bar screen, before powering off. It became completely unresponsive afterwards, no beeping, regardless of where it was charging and whether the battery was in or not.
Wednesday morning (today), after having left it charge all night, the phone still was completely unresponsive. I then left it to charge the entire afternoon (until now), and it was still completely unresponsive. I took it apart and played around with the power button, but it didn't seem to be stuck. I've now put it back together and leaving it connected to the wall charger once again.
What I've Tried:
Tried connecting it to Kies (computer doesn't even recognize it)
Tried putting into Recovery Mode (unresponsive)
Tried putting into Download Mode (unresponsive)
Switched chargers (unresponsive)
Held power button (beeps, now doesn't do anything)
Held both volume buttons and power button (beeps then quickly flashes samsung logo)
Cleaned off some of the micro usb lint with a tooth pick (coincided with the stopping of continuous beeping, not sure if it caused it)
What I think it could be:
Faulty power button (this is what I thought it was, but now it's not vibrating)
Faulty battery (I kept draining to 0%, but if this is the problem, it doesn't explain the phone not displaying anything when it's connected to a charger w/o battery inside)
Faulty usb charging port (I've heard it sometimes causes vibration problems. wouldnt explain the restarting).
Fried motherboard (phone has had some water damage, but I'm not sure if it's the MOBO, considering its symptoms)
HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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hey, this isnt really an answer, but maybe something to bump this up. Mine went last night.... won't boot, won't charge... goes into download mode but no matter how many times i switch cables, install Samsung drivers, install Keis, or anything imaginable- i cannot get it to communicate with my PC. if i could i would be able to fix this problem.
i really hope that someone will take a look at these issues and give some input. my call to Samsung was useless, i wasted hours with redundancy. I bought the phone used off Ebay in mint condition... have taken it apart and cleaned it with no avail. i fear that soon the battery will be dead and there's no way to charge it. sucks. Samsung really should recall/replace this because so many people have similar issues. whether it's the USB Flex or the battery or the motherboard they should be responsible. looks like ill be getting a nexus 4 afterall.
please let me know if you figure anything out.
sluchy523 said:
BACKGROUND:
At first, it just started turning off for no reason (probably a month and a half ago).
Then this week, it would start to randomly turn off, and start vibrating constantly when charging. After fiddling with the buttons, it would eventually find itself into download mode and then later turn itself on.
NOW:
Monday morning, after several days of draining the battery to 0% (due to me solely charging it for an hour a day), the phone went dead. Then, that night, upon trying to charge it and turn it on, it remained stuck on a black screen. After taking out the battery, it would continuously beep while still connected to the charger. As soon as I put in the battery, it would become COMPLETELY unresponsive, with and without the charger. After fiddling with it for over an hour, I put it down and slept, leaving the battery and charge in the phone.
Tuesday morning, I clicked the power button, and the phone flashed to the lock screen. It displayed it was at 0% battery, but I think it showed a charging sign. I used the phone for almost 2 minutes, checking my texts, before it again went completely black. The phone became completely unresponsive (no beeping or anything, regardless of anything I did). I connected it to a wall charger again, and left it there for the entire afternoon.
Then when I picked it up at around 6 o clock, I discovered that the continuous beeping stopped, and it would only beep after holding the power button for around 5 seconds. It could beep regardless of whether the battery was out or not.
After charging it all that night, I found I could make it flash the Samsung logo for a fraction of a second after holding down both volume buttons and the power button. I looked it up, and supposedly it brings you to recovery mode, but I believe my phone is switching off immediately after bringing up the logo.
At around 12, Tuesday night, I again decided to hold down the power button (just to reassure myself of it still somewhat functioning), and it powered on for around ten seconds (!!!) . It got all the way to the end of the pink loading bar screen, but then beeped and restarted. The second time, it lasted only around three seconds, without even getting to the loading bar screen, before powering off. It became completely unresponsive afterwards, no beeping, regardless of where it was charging and whether the battery was in or not.
Wednesday morning (today), after having left it charge all night, the phone still was completely unresponsive. I then left it to charge the entire afternoon (until now), and it was still completely unresponsive. I took it apart and played around with the power button, but it didn't seem to be stuck. I've now put it back together and leaving it connected to the wall charger once again.
What I've Tried:
Tried connecting it to Kies (computer doesn't even recognize it)
Tried putting into Recovery Mode (unresponsive)
Tried putting into Download Mode (unresponsive)
Switched chargers (unresponsive)
Held power button (beeps, now doesn't do anything)
Held both volume buttons and power button (beeps then quickly flashes samsung logo)
Cleaned off some of the micro usb lint with a tooth pick (coincided with the stopping of continuous beeping, not sure if it caused it)
What I think it could be:
Faulty power button (this is what I thought it was, but now it's not vibrating)
Faulty battery (I kept draining to 0%, but if this is the problem, it doesn't explain the phone not displaying anything when it's connected to a charger w/o battery inside)
Faulty usb charging port (I've heard it sometimes causes vibration problems. wouldnt explain the restarting).
Fried motherboard (phone has had some water damage, but I'm not sure if it's the MOBO, considering its symptoms)
HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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It may be your battery, u need to remember why they tell u not to run the phone that way, the batteries our phones run need to maintain a certain charge in order to work correctly, if like u said u only charged it an hr or so a fah for over a week and drained completely more than once u may have rendered ur battery unable to hold a charge, in effect not allowing the phone to run its boot process, I would try a new battery, because beyond that the only other logical explanation is a hardware failure, stuck power button wouldn't render the device unresponsive only when the battery was put in like that, it would bootloop, have u ever just held ur power button in? The phone vib an shuts down a. Vib again n shut down, not become unresponsive, I would try a new battery, and if it works, respect the charge lol
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I would agree, seems to be the battery. I bought 2 batteries and a 110V charger on eBay for $30. They don't have the NFC antenna in them but I've never missed it. Not only that but charging that way saves the wear and tear on the USB port.
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Long story short. Yesterday running PA + Lean kernel I sit down to play TURBO. After one and a half hour, I went back and put my phone down and plugged in the cable. It did nothing. I played a bit with moving the cable head plugged in the phone and started charging as AC. Unplugged, see if fast charged was toggled. It wasn't. Plugged back in. Nothing. Somehow, someway, I managed to connect. Was really hard to finish it and flashed back a stock yakjuwx (as my original rom was). Everything nice and good, but now sometimes I get the unrecognized device and have to unplug and plug back. Since than, these are happening:
- when devices is turned off, I plug the cable, the icon with bolt comes up, than switch to charge animation and it does disappear. Pushing the power buttons for a short time, not for long as power on, wakes the phone and displays the animation. Is this normal? or should the animation be displayed constantly.
- phones in battery stats doesn't show "discharging" it shows "not charging". Shouldn't it show "Discharging" when there is no cable plugged in?
- sometimes I got flashes as if is plugged in, the so called "phantom charge". (no, bending the tongue doesn't help).
NFC toggle off on doesn't help either.
Soon I'll send back the phone in warranty, as I bought it it was sent back one time for heavy temperature rised and video recording microphone problem, although they didn't changed anything with the microphone, just the motherboard.
Now I have problems with the sleep too... altough I had always. Here are some pictures attached.
I am affraid about not being able to unroot soon if the usb board goes to sleep... it's a matter of time I think... so any ideas?
A couple days ago it was working fine, however I noticed it gradually charged slower and slower to the point where, even when it's on the charging cradle, it loses charge. Now, whenever I put it on the charging cradle, the screen won't even turn on, and the device will not power up. The light on the bottom of the charger lights up, but the device receives no charge. I'm using the default Moto 360 connector cable, and I've even tried more powerful adapters, but still nothing. I decided to listen to any advice I might could get here before I call Motorola support.
my moto 360 is not turning on . can anyone troubleshoot this issue?
Mine got stuck in a discharge loop, was discharging on the charger, the charger was not recognizing the watch (charger light off).
The direct usb connection powered on the watch but did not charge it. No leaving it on/off the charger worked. It was dead.
The fix was to take it apart and unplug/replug the battery. It started charging normally afterwards. Now it won't stay closed, and the face keeps coming off, I press down on it from time to time and maybe I'll use some superglue
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Mine got stuck in a discharge loop, was discharging on the charger, the charger was not recognizing the watch (charger light off).
The direct usb connection powered on the watch but did not charge it. No leaving it on/off the charger worked. It was dead.
The fix was to take it apart and unplug/replug the battery. It started charging normally afterwards. Now it won't stay closed, and the face keeps coming off, I press down on it from time to time and maybe I'll use some superglue
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Couldn't we talk to Motorola about this? Shouldn't this be considered a manufacturers defect?
I talked to Motorola support, and after hours of phone calls, they said they would replace mine for free. But because the watch was in such high demand, I couldn't get a replacement watch for like 2 months. They seemed shocked that the device had stopped working, and it seems there aren't too many cases of this happening. I'd recommend calling Motorola support before doing anything drastic like taking apart the device.
I don't have warranty, so I can't call for help.
Mine got stuck while trying another Qi charger, so I guess only the charging chip got crazy, the watch worked normally until it drained the battery.
The charger has 2 modes: low power to signal the device it's on the charger then the device (be it phone or watch) should signal back to the charger it's present and the charger goes on the high power output to actually charge the device.
My watch had the charging chip blocked so it didn't signal back to the charger which remained in the low power state and did not provide enough power to charge the watch.
Factory reset and even USB reset did not reset the charging circuitry, only a hard reset by pulling out the battery did the trick.
By the way to take it apart it's not needed to remove the dreadded cracky plastic back, only hold by the strap and rock the case upward/left/right. Tough fingernails and a little help from a plastic wedge near the button and in the opposite side did it.
I was playing around with it, trying to set it up as a makeshift diy control center with an app and then suddenly the screen went black. It had been working perfectly for many years previously although the charging port was always finicky so I'd occasionally have to jiggle the cord to get it to charge (but I think that was due to the cords being too loose).
After extensive troubleshooting I concluded that it won't boot fully. The boot screen shows but in a flash it's gone, like a flicker. The device seems to refuse to allow me to turn it on when external power is connected to it, but if I sneak the charger cord in right as it is booting sometimes it will show me the battery charging animation for when the device is off (not sure what it's called but I've seen it on many devices as a standard feature) and it appears to actually be charging as it went from 84% to 87%. I also tried opening the device up and physically unplugging and then plugging the battery back in but that did the same thing as when holding the button without external power connected.
Is there any way to recover it or is it dead (it's been since 2011 that I have had this bad boy and I don't wanna lose him)?
Hey, so, some days ago i found this device on my workplace. No one claimed it, so i took it home. After having a closer look, the phone is in terrible conditions. Back panel is totally shattered (it even has a hole in it) and is almost glue-free. Front glass looks to be good, screen dosent seems to be cracked or damaged (i cant tell for sure) and charging port seems OK. I tried everithing to turn it on, but the only thing i get is a red light, only when connecting the phone to a charger. After unplugging it from the charger the led is still on, so it might be software stuck. The battery is OK, i measured it with my multimeter, voltage is 4.2V. I tried disconnecting everything exept charging port, but still nothing. I totally dissasembled the phone to have a closer inspection, and it seems to be all right. No water damage, no dirt, no flexing on the main board. I also tried connecting it to my PC, and i noticed that the phone tries to do something, but it fails half way. When i connect the phone, on the first 10 seconds, nothing happens, but after that, my pc detects a new COM port (COM4). Its detected for 5 seconds, and then it dissapears. That is what happens indefenetly. Nothing, appears as COM port, disappears. I tried using Xperia Companion, but i got no luck, since phone dosent turns on, and it also wont get to the bootloader/fastboot. I also tried to connect to the COM port with PuTTY, but i dont know what baud rate to use, and also, its a very short period, so i dont think there is enough time to establish a connection.
What else can i try?
put in fozener 2 days and take out to power charger, it work for me
Probably the battery is broken in case it doesn't charge.
If you are bored, avoid all the hassle windows gives and try to make use of the USB thumb drive equipped with mAid that can be found here
Sorry, but Windows is still a ***** sometimes