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[Q] [ION] Please help with possible hard brick, I've read other threads

Hi, today while I was browsing on Firefox, the app closed by itself and the home screen got distorted (the wallpaper got black and some icons started to show up in the background). Since it has happened before, twice in the last week, I tried to reset the phone. However this time the phone did not turn on. I put it in the charger and the LED is also not turning on. I've had it plugged in for about 9 hours now and the LED is still off and the phone is not even getting warm, like it usually does when it's charging. The charger is also not warming up, and when I tried to connect the phone to the computer USB port, Windows doesn't report any power consumption.
I've read some threads about bricking, so I know people mention longer times to get the LED turn red, but is it normal that it doesn't warm up and doesn't suck any power from a USB port?
For anyone familiar with AT&T operations, if I sent it as warranty replacement, would they bother running diagnostics? I have it with LT28i .68 firmware, rooted and with CWM.
Also, is there a way to retrieve the data from the internal SD card? I tried connecting it to the computer and nothing happened. Nothing happens when I press either volume button + power button. An nothing happens when I connect it to the computer pressing either volume button.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Have you tried the Hard reset?
Holding Power Button and Volume button together for at-least 3-5 seconds and you would feel 3 vibration.

auni said:
Have you tried the Hard reset?
Holding Power Button and Volume button together for at-least 3-5 seconds and you would feel 3 vibration.
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I have. I don't get any vibration with either volume down or volume up + power.

josemald said:
I have. I don't get any vibration with either volume down or volume up + power.
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Hold VolUP+VolDOWN at the same time, and then press Power button, holding it too, the 3 at same time for some secs...

the_biu said:
Hold VolUP+VolDOWN at the same time, and then press Power button, holding it too, the 3 at same time for some secs...
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I tried that too, the phone also doesn't respond.

Does ION has removable battery? If yes try to remove it for a while.
If not. Then try the buttons combo with the phone connect to charger...

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Does ION has removable battery? If yes try to remove it for a while.
If not. Then try the buttons combo with the phone connect to charger...
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The Ion doesn't have a removable battery. I already tried all combinations of power+volume buttons, while disconnected and connected to the charger, and nothing. Maybe the battery somehow got disconnected internally, I don't know if that's even possible.
I've called AT&T, they'll send another warranty replacement, the second replacement I get. Hopefully this one will last enough at least for an early renewal.

I don't know if AT&T still does this but back when I was in the states last year I had them give me an early upgrade because two of the handsets they gave me were faulty (original and one replacement). Try talking to CS Reps sometimes it pays off. You might be able to get an early upgrade if you tell them how this can't keep happening you have important data blah blah blah.
Anyways good luck!
Sent from my LT28i using xda app-developers app

M8 won't power on

My M8 won't power on here is what happen my battery drained out and phone phone went off and when I got home put phone on the charger and left it charge over night the next morning tried to power on the phone but won't power on I held down the power button and volume down nothing and held down power button and volume still nothing it completely won't power on at all it been 3 to 4 days now still not powering on can anyone help or have any other solutions

bdouc said:
My M8 won't power on here is what happen my battery drained out and phone phone went off and when I got home put phone on the charger and left it charge over night the next morning tried to power on the phone but won't power on I held down the power button and volume down nothing and held down power button and volume still nothing it completely won't power on at all it been 3 to 4 days now still not powering on can anyone help or have any other solutions
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well, if you can't power you M8 with any buttons combination i think you might have to send it to repair service...

Do you see the charging light at all?
Try plugging the phone into the pc via usb. Press and hold volume up and power until you hear a ding on the pc, might take a while.

bdouc said:
My M8 won't power on here is what happen my battery drained out and phone phone went off and when I got home put phone on the charger and left it charge over night the next morning tried to power on the phone but won't power on I held down the power button and volume down nothing and held down power button and volume still nothing it completely won't power on at all it been 3 to 4 days now still not powering on can anyone help or have any other solutions
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I had the same problem after I did a dirty flash of a new ROM. Phone went black and didn't want to reboot anymore. What I did was to connect the phone via USB with the PC first. Then I tried combination of holding the power button for 20 sec. After that holding the Volume up key first then pressing together with the Power button and also hold it for 10-15 sec. After cycling that for 2-3 times finally my phone rebooted. I have no clue why but after that I was able to jump back into recovery and reflashed the ROM with full-wipe. Then everything was ok.

unplug phone, vol up and power for 11 seconds, let go of both, vol down and power to enter boot loader, then choose reboot. Must be unplugged for this

RoughNeck1971 said:
I had the same problem after I did a dirty flash of a new ROM. Phone went black and didn't want to reboot anymore. What I did was to connect the phone via USB with the PC first. Then I tried combination of holding the power button for 20 sec. After that holding the Volume up key first then pressing together with the Power button and also hold it for 10-15 sec. After cycling that for 2-3 times finally my phone rebooted. I have no clue why but after that I was able to jump back into recovery and reflashed the ROM with full-wipe. Then everything was ok.
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Do you use TWRP recovery?
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Yes. Version 2.7.1.0.

My phone went black and wouldn't do anything after I clean flashed a rom. I just left it alone once I established it wouldn't do anything and it came back on its own after a while. I was using twrp 2.7.1.0 also. I have switched to Phil's touch recovery to see if it happens next time I flash a rom.
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Thank you for this information!!!
RoughNeck1971 said:
I had the same problem after I did a dirty flash of a new ROM. Phone went black and didn't want to reboot anymore. What I did was to connect the phone via USB with the PC first. Then I tried combination of holding the power button for 20 sec. After that holding the Volume up key first then pressing together with the Power button and also hold it for 10-15 sec. After cycling that for 2-3 times finally my phone rebooted. I have no clue why but after that I was able to jump back into recovery and reflashed the ROM with full-wipe. Then everything was ok.
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My phone was in a similar situation after rebooting from giving the app "emoji switcher" root access (never had problems in the past).. I freaked out and could not get the phone on until I came upon your comment... Thanks!! :laugh:

Happy that my comment could help .

RoughNeck1971 said:
Yes. Version 2.7.1.0.
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that reovery bricked my old htc sensation xe, i think the 2.7.1 has some issues

ashyx said:
Do you see the charging light at all?
Try plugging the phone into the pc via usb. Press and hold volume up and power until you hear a ding on the pc, might take a while.
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MAN!!!!, THANK YOU SO MUCH. I had the same issue, phone completely died, wouldn't charge, had to connect to PC and hold vol up and power for like 30secs.
You are a life saver.

worked for me aswell thanks so much

Thanks!
RoughNeck1971 said:
I had the same problem after I did a dirty flash of a new ROM. Phone went black and didn't want to reboot anymore. What I did was to connect the phone via USB with the PC first. Then I tried combination of holding the power button for 20 sec. After that holding the Volume up key first then pressing together with the Power button and also hold it for 10-15 sec. After cycling that for 2-3 times finally my phone rebooted. I have no clue why but after that I was able to jump back into recovery and reflashed the ROM with full-wipe. Then everything was ok.
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I have no idea what happened to mine, but it suddenly shut down while I was texting. Did exactly what you did with the 20 seconds and 15 second power/vol up, and it suddenly rebooted. Thank you so much!

holy **** i had this problem and i just did this and it worked.hahahahahaha

M8 Screen won't come on

M8 screen won't come on at phone does power on but the screen does not is any body else had this same issue and what is the fix on this
does anyone have an idea on how to fix this

bdouc said:
M8 screen won't come on at phone does power on but the screen does not is any body else had this same issue and what is the fix on this
does anyone have an idea on how to fix this
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How can you tell the phone is on if the screen won't come on?
What have u flashed?

Heisenberg420 said:
How can you tell the phone is on if the screen won't come on?
What have u flashed?
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i can tell the phone is on cause when i plug the phone on my PC sync manager pops up and Auto play also pops up flashed vipeneroneM8 ,last week and phone was working good till today screen started to flash and went off did 3 key reset by holding the power the volume down and volume up while phone was on charger but no luck

bdouc said:
i can tell the phone is on cause when i plug the phone on my PC sync manager pops up and Auto play also pops up flashed vipeneroneM8 ,last week and phone was working good till today screen started to flash and went off did 3 key reset by holding the power the volume down and volume up while phone was on charger but no luck
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Did you make a nandroid backup before u flashed viper one? If u did enter recovery by rebooting holding down vol down and restore your backup. Or flash your carriers stock firmware. Check the back to stock thread for info on that.
If that doesn't work it's a hardware issue and you should check your warranty and get a replacement.

Thank you guys for the help and for everyone coming together to come up with solution it is deeply appropriated my M8 was finally able to boot it up I plugged phone on the charger and directly to the power outlet on the wall and hold the volume up + volume down + power bottom all 3 keys at same time for 20 minutes and released all key at the same and left phone on charger over night for 24hrs and phone was able to boot up

I think you only need to hold Vol Up + Power for a few seconds and it should reboot.
Mine did the same thing once and that's how I got it to restart.

gokun said:
I think you only need to hold Vol Up + Power for a few seconds and it should reboot.
Mine did the same thing once and that's how I got it to restart.
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True. Power + Vol Up is a reboot, basically a simulated battery pull (for phones that have a removable battery.
Power + Vol Down boots into bootloader.
Power + Vol Up + Vol Down is not any button combo on this device, that I know of. This is perhaps a button combo for another device? Care should be taken to only do known button combos. Although I don't think there is any "harmful" button combo on the M8; on my old One X (EVITA) folks would mistakenly do Power + Vol Up to go into bootloader (correct combo is Power+ Vol down) which erased the ROM and sent the phone into Qualcomm download mode, which would probably give you a heart attack!

[Q] Sumsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (SM-T805) screen went black

My tablet Galaxy Tab S 10.5 (SM-T805) screen went black. I can’t see the screen.
Touch also does not seem to work. However it’s on. it is receiving calls and other messages. It is connected to WiFi.
Power button, volume button are working but I can’t power off the device cause I can’t see the screen options.
When I plug in to the charging cable it vibrates but does not show anything on screen.
It didn’t drop and hit by anything…i have been using it for 3 months now. it just happened by itself or may be by some update that I don’t know.
Please help how to bring it back to life

Are you able to get into download or recovery? I've never heard of something like this before. Maybe go ahead and let it die and then plug it back in and see if you can get into download mode by holding home+power+volume down then re flash your stock firmware or whatever you were using. Or do home+power+volume up to get into recovery. If you still have stock recovery then you can just do a factory reset right from that but if your using something TWRP then your still going to need to flash something after wiping your data.
Not sure how else you can get it to shut off since you can't see it. Even knowing where the power menu is once you press the button it would still be tough to hit the right thing. I'd say let it die. Maybe someone else can come shed some light. Of course it could be a hardware problem as well. I'm leaning toward software still though.
If your still completely stock I'd say let it die and get into stock recovery. Home+power+volume up and then wipe data and do a factory reset. Now if the screen stays black after its off and you've plugged in the charging cable then I'd imagine there's a more a serious problem going on.

Yes I am waiting for battery to be completely drained out. I will try your method once the battery is completely dead.
thanks

Your welcome let me know how it goes. Will do my best to help.

I don't have my tab with me right now but can't you hold power button for 10 sec to force a reboot? All Android device I ever had could do that.

Steve.99 said:
I don't have my tab with me right now but can't you hold power button for 10 sec to force a reboot? All Android device I ever had could do that.
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Doest work on t805 holding powerbutton, just hold the buttons for download mode and that will force it to reset and prompt you to press volume down to cancel volume up to continue...hold for 30 seconds, and if nothing appears let go and just press volume up once, still no joy then pop back cover off and unclip and reclip battery if your brave, thats what i did before i new about this quicker way.

How to run the battery completely down..? its still active and on... though not showing anything on screen.
Is there any quicker way... ?

To do a hard-reset on these Samsung devices, you need to hold Power + Home + Volume Down until it reboots. On every other device it's just Power. Some it's Power+Home. For some reason Samsung likes to be different.
Or if you have previously enabled USB Debugging, you can plug it in to your computer and do an ADB Reboot.

Power + volume down + volume up works for me as reset.

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Power + volume down + volume up works for me as reset.
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Holy crap the dude is right....just tried that myself on t805, holding all 3 buttons at same time in top left corner power,vol dwn, vol, up forces a simple reset without dwnload mode rubbish.

Z5 Premium Dual - Does Not Turn On...

I did a software update recently on my Z5 Premium Dual E6833, and when I look at it later it was off! I tried to turn it on, but it was unresponsive. No signs of life at all. Its completely dead. OFF button in SIM slot does nothing, even if I hold it for more than two minutes. No charging LED light when connected to wall charger. When I plug it to my PC, it was being detected as "Unknown Device". Tried loading some ADB driver but it was not accepting it. Tried few different chargers and cables as well. Also Volume Up + Power does nothing at all, same for Volume Down + Power...
Looks like it runs out of charge when it did a software update, it was still have more than 50% when I started the software update. ..
Can anyone guide me on what to do next? I am in the middle of the desert at the moment for the next three weeks, and no access to any local service center. Thank you in advance for any advice that you might have... :crying:

i am worried since you did the volume up + power button trick!
charge your device over night , hold the volumeup+ power button for atleast 15 seconds , the device must jerk thrice! remove fingers on second jerk . the device will shutdown . at this point connect device in flashmode and flash the kernel!

Thank you for your reply, appreciate it! I have tried that trick of holding the Volume Up + Power even up to 30 seconds, but for some unknown reason, it does not vibrate at all. I have tried it on numerous occasion but the vibration was not coming at all...