Hi - i hope its ok i place it here.
So, i got my friends m8 for free, since its completely dead.
This is what he told me.
He started doing system reset thru the pc software, the software or phone crashed and he couldnt start the phone, he started it to recovery and pressed factory reset, the screen went black (screen where on but it was black, nothing on it) and he couldnt do ****. after a while it eventually died from no battery and since then its been in his drawer, this was in dec.
today i got it, put it in the charger, at first it randomly showed that it loaded with yellow light going like yellow like 2 seconds, no light 1 second, yellow light 6 seconds, no light 3 seconds on and on for 2-3 hours completely random, never stable yellow light that its charging.
now its not showing anything at all eventho the charger is in, the phone obv wont start, and best of all when i was at my mate i lost my xperia z3 compact somwhere in swedish town stockholm, we ate at a fancy resturant ant went to alot of places so thats gone.
what can i do? i run a small pc support business so i cant be without phone and having bought 2 new computers today im totally on zero money, no friends or family that has some old crap either.
please give me any advice.
i just put the usb into the computer and on a dead phone not showing its charing and not on and not able to start it, my computer goes "installing drivers qhsusb_bulk". gives me a bit of hope.
btw my friend said the he tried to recover it by the phone, not the pc software, and then the phone hang up
You are so very much opening yourself up to a load of piling on here.
The M8 is a very popular device and has loads of support from a strong base of users. Post your question in their Q&A forum to get help from them.
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Name: Galaxy Note II Ceramic White
Model: GT-N7100 16 GB
Launcher: TouchWiz
Rooted: Yes
Age: Around 6 months, maybe more
This happened few weeks ago, so I am writing from memory.
I went to bed with half battery remaining. I put on my usual alarm and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning without alarm, my phone was dead. I just assumed that battery was dead and tried charging. After charging for few minutes I tried to turn it on, and nothing happened.
Things I have tried:
Charging the phone through the wall
Charging the phone through an USB connected to a PC
Tried the above with 2 different cables
Removing and inserting battery
Borrowing and using my friends battery (same model)
After this I finally gave it to service and it returned yesterday. They did not fix it, since I bought it online from Germany and I am living currently in Sweden and do not have an international warranty card.
One thing was different after it came back from service. When I plug in the phone to charge, it turns on and displays this weird/distorted pattern.
Cannot post a picture due to new account restrictions, maybe I could PM pictures to someone else so that person could post them here?
I will try to describe. It is white and gray pixel groups scattered all around the screen. And the screen is completely filled with them. Kinda like bricks in a case.
But now I was able to run Odin mode, or downloading mode, I am not exactly sure how it is called.
It says this:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-N7100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
Unfortunately, I was unable to start recovery mode.
Other quirks:
Not sure if it happened before, but it stays on, without battery as long as it is charging
If it is charging, it is impossible to turn it off with the power key, no matter how long I hold it
Sometimes, when trying to start Odin Mode, someones a new images appears on a screen. Instead of a usual distortion, there is just a black field with many green and blue pixels scattered all around the screen.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Sorry if this was posted before, but I am not familiar with the terminology, so if someone could at least tell me how is my problem called or could direct me what I should search for, it would be very nice too.
Same Proble With my phone..if u got solution plzzz tell me
draxlt said:
Name: Galaxy Note II Ceramic White
Model: GT-N7100 16 GB
Launcher: TouchWiz
Rooted: Yes
Age: Around 6 months, maybe more
This happened few weeks ago, so I am writing from memory.
I went to bed with half battery remaining. I put on my usual alarm and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning without alarm, my phone was dead. I just assumed that battery was dead and tried charging. After charging for few minutes I tried to turn it on, and nothing happened.
Things I have tried:
Charging the phone through the wall
Charging the phone through an USB connected to a PC
Tried the above with 2 different cables
Removing and inserting battery
Borrowing and using my friends battery (same model)
After this I finally gave it to service and it returned yesterday. They did not fix it, since I bought it online from Germany and I am living currently in Sweden and do not have an international warranty card.
One thing was different after it came back from service. When I plug in the phone to charge, it turns on and displays this weird/distorted pattern.
Cannot post a picture due to new account restrictions, maybe I could PM pictures to someone else so that person could post them here?
I will try to describe. It is white and gray pixel groups scattered all around the screen. And the screen is completely filled with them. Kinda like bricks in a case.
But now I was able to run Odin mode, or downloading mode, I am not exactly sure how it is called.
It says this:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-N7100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
Unfortunately, I was unable to start recovery mode.
Other quirks:
Not sure if it happened before, but it stays on, without battery as long as it is charging
If it is charging, it is impossible to turn it off with the power key, no matter how long I hold it
Sometimes, when trying to start Odin Mode, someones a new images appears on a screen. Instead of a usual distortion, there is just a black field with many green and blue pixels scattered all around the screen.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Sorry if this was posted before, but I am not familiar with the terminology, so if someone could at least tell me how is my problem called or could direct me what I should search for, it would be very nice too.
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Same Proble With my phone..if u got solution plzzz tell me
draxlt said:
Name: Galaxy Note II Ceramic White
Model: GT-N7100 16 GB
Launcher: TouchWiz
Rooted: Yes
Age: Around 6 months, maybe more
This happened few weeks ago, so I am writing from memory.
I went to bed with half battery remaining. I put on my usual alarm and fell asleep. I woke up in the morning without alarm, my phone was dead. I just assumed that battery was dead and tried charging. After charging for few minutes I tried to turn it on, and nothing happened.
Things I have tried:
Charging the phone through the wall
Charging the phone through an USB connected to a PC
Tried the above with 2 different cables
Removing and inserting battery
Borrowing and using my friends battery (same model)
After this I finally gave it to service and it returned yesterday. They did not fix it, since I bought it online from Germany and I am living currently in Sweden and do not have an international warranty card.
One thing was different after it came back from service. When I plug in the phone to charge, it turns on and displays this weird/distorted pattern.
Cannot post a picture due to new account restrictions, maybe I could PM pictures to someone else so that person could post them here?
I will try to describe. It is white and gray pixel groups scattered all around the screen. And the screen is completely filled with them. Kinda like bricks in a case.
But now I was able to run Odin mode, or downloading mode, I am not exactly sure how it is called.
It says this:
ODIN MODE
PRODUCT NAME: GT-N7100
CUSTOM BINARY DOWNLOAD: No
CURRENT BINARY: Samsung Official
SYSTEM STATUS: Custom
Unfortunately, I was unable to start recovery mode.
Other quirks:
Not sure if it happened before, but it stays on, without battery as long as it is charging
If it is charging, it is impossible to turn it off with the power key, no matter how long I hold it
Sometimes, when trying to start Odin Mode, someones a new images appears on a screen. Instead of a usual distortion, there is just a black field with many green and blue pixels scattered all around the screen.
Any help would be very appreciated.
Sorry if this was posted before, but I am not familiar with the terminology, so if someone could at least tell me how is my problem called or could direct me what I should search for, it would be very nice too.
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i think you bricked it try restoring using this method
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-ph...e-2-from-rooted-to-factory-settings-50010623/
Even i had exactly the same problem
i got the same problem. even when i used phone only over wifi and after 20 days of buying this phone.i got this problem. distorted color and cant boot. only can go to odin download mode. or can see galaxy note ii text in black background.
since its within warranty gave to samsung care. they told they would replace the motherboard.
after lot of searching i found this issue comes in gt-n7100 16gb model.......
Users reported it's due to insane memory chip. which comes faulty in this model. samsung least bothered about resolving problem in that model. but provides repair free within warranty and charges later...
Been coming here a while.. forums are nothing new to meh.. we'll skip the fact I just made this account and immediately made a thread ^^;
We'll get right to the details:
Had her since Autumn last year. Best phone I've ever used. No problems besides freezes I know I caused, etc.. never an issue. Til about October this year. Seen similar issues, looked for two months and found nothing close besides a Nexus 7 that physically needed its battery pulled for it to power on again. Anywho, here's how the moment went down: In the span of an hour or so, my GNex had crashed on me about three times... normally it'll do that maybe three times a day to three a week, depending how hotplugx on leankernel felt that day (having only one core on 90% of the time was pretty sweet). Was running the PA 3.99 based "Built With Love" ROM- the first build to incorporate any Saber stuff afaik- and the flat out 8.0 version of leankernel. Now.. the laast time she froze, the battery was already near dead, so when I popped it back in I plugged it up to the charger. All going as normal, right? Done this plenty from tinkering with kernels and seeing which android ROMs & versions I could hop back and forth to without wiping (had the current said setup for a month straight, surprisingly) Nope. It brings up the charging logo with the lighting bolt in the middle of the battery... and freezes there. Pulled out the cord, waited a bit and everything. Nada. Freaked out, I popped the battery. Went to put the battery back in and power it.. nothing. Okay, maybe that just killed the charge. Nope. Power cord fails to bring up any kind of light or charging animation. No screen activity. Will not boot into odin, recovery, or anything.
The ONLY signs of life still coming from this phone, are heat when it's on the charger, heat after 'USB jumping' the phone -after disconnecting the cord as well, and for at least two hours it continues producing heat- (had to do that when I first got it from Google) , and if I plug her into the laptop via USB WITHOUT a battery, it'll show as "OMAP 4440" for a split second in device manager.
Any more details will come from answering questions. As this happened over two months ago, I'm a little fuzzy on outright recalling details.
Cannot find this problem elsewhere at all. Either it's rare or I suck at looking around.
So I'm coming to you guys. Is she bricked? Stuck in charging.. idk what. Toolkits won't detect a device either, even after the USB jump when I know the battery is discharging and the phone is -technically- powered on.
If you guys could help me out for Christmas, even if it's to tell me she's busted, it would be so indescribably appreciated... <3
[Edit] Nabbed this really quick (attachment). Holding the button combo for download/odin mode has Windows searching this.
No battery inserted, as the dialog disappears and the taskbar pops with a bubble saying "device not recognized" etc. when the battery is put back in or is simply in it when plugged into the laptop.
Also to note: a third party battery yields the same results as the stock one. What kills me is Windows can see it, but aside from that and the heat production, it's essentially dead. What gives? :c
Shameful bump. Need to know if it's completely bricked, or possibly a hardware issue that's repairable or not.
Had to save up for over a year for this phone. Really need to figure out if it's gone or not. If it is, then I'll need to start saving for an N5, which I consider a downgrade ._. Can't beat the community support though, and that extra screen space :3
Aside from irrelevant blabble.. any answer would be appreciated. I can provide any additional information if need be, as well.
Have not seen this issue anywhere.
Bump..? :c
There's almost nothing on charge animation freezes. And what there is, the owner was able to boot their device with some simple workarounds.
If there's anyone who knows what's going on, even to tell me I'm a retard who bricked his phone, please do. Please.
Can't even afford glue to put my shoes back together. Saving up for another phone is impractical this year and probably next as well :\
Would I need the OMAP 4440 driver and some other stuff? If there's some way to push a boot.img to /boot while the phone is in this state, that would fix it..
I'm somewhat sure, at least. Since the kernel's in charge of that from what I understand.. any ideas?
Search for OMAP flash. I think your phone can be revived. i can't search right now but i believe there are some tutorial about OMAP flash of galaxy nexus. Good luck
Hello xba-developers!
>Device HTC One X
>Quad Core 1.5 Ghz processor
>16 GB memory
>Everything is stock, no rooting nothing.
I've been checking this forum for quite a while but just found the need to register obviously because of a problem which I cannot find solution to.
I've checked couple of forum posts like THIS and some others and they KINDA have solution but it's really vague for me and I'll explain why; the reason is that I'm a complete newbie to all this, I've never rooted a device don't even know what that means and all these custom ROMs and everything really confuse me. Plus, my computer can't pick up my phone and generally I don't quite know if the cause of my problem is the same as other posts (Even though the problem is same) which means the solution may be different.
PROBLEM
It was raining, I was outside, some moron bumped into me in the street and phone slipped out of my hand, fell into a pool of water. I took it out as soon as I could but it was all wet. I tried to turn off the device but it kept restarting it wouldn't power down! (When I pressed power off it would do just regular restart) then suddenly it started working but the thing is, BEFORE all of this battery was in 14%, after it magically started working battery was on 80% which means it must have shortened somewhere (Problem with battery). Then all of a sudden it started doing these weird things like turning on music all of a sudden, turning on screen, shutting down, restarting and so on... (The speakers pretty much weren't working but still there was music somewhere). Then it went into a boot loop, I tried to do recovery but it kept restarting even when I was pressing POWER + Volume down buttons.
Then what I feared the most, battery died. Whenever I connect to power source (no matter Computer or Wall charger) it automatically goes into boot loop, the device won't stop working at all it won't shut down nothing. Battery is out of charge and I can't charge the phone enough to do Factory Reset. I took it to Service center but they are having "holidays" because 8th march is women's day and then it's sunday...
I really hate the fact that the battery is sealed inside the phone! It becomes real headache in this situations I could just take the battery out and tried it out but NOPE, can't do that!
Plus it's my first android and it uses this mini sim card thing (which they happily shortened in the store) and I don't really have any other Android phones to use my card on since it's too small for older devices...
So, the question:
How do I charge my phone when it goes into boot loop every time I plug it in?
My PC can't recognize it (it makes the sound when you connect Flash device through USB and then in 0.5 sec makes the one when you disconnect that same device).
I just need my phone to work properly. Or at least start up!
Thanks to everyone who read this huge post and I'm really sorry if I missed one or another forum thread that describes my problem exactly (which is unlikely but still).
Thanks again, have a good day!
LizardProtection said:
Hello xba-developers!
>Device HTC One X
>Quad Core 1.5 Ghz processor
>16 GB memory
>Everything is stock, no rooting nothing.
I've been checking this forum for quite a while but just found the need to register obviously because of a problem which I cannot find solution to.
I've checked couple of forum posts like THIS and some others and they KINDA have solution but it's really vague for me and I'll explain why; the reason is that I'm a complete newbie to all this, I've never rooted a device don't even know what that means and all these custom ROMs and everything really confuse me. Plus, my computer can't pick up my phone and generally I don't quite know if the cause of my problem is the same as other posts (Even though the problem is same) which means the solution may be different.
PROBLEM
It was raining, I was outside, some moron bumped into me in the street and phone slipped out of my hand, fell into a pool of water. I took it out as soon as I could but it was all wet. I tried to turn off the device but it kept restarting it wouldn't power down! (When I pressed power off it would do just regular restart) then suddenly it started working but the thing is, BEFORE all of this battery was in 14%, after it magically started working battery was on 80% which means it must have shortened somewhere (Problem with battery). Then all of a sudden it started doing these weird things like turning on music all of a sudden, turning on screen, shutting down, restarting and so on... (The speakers pretty much weren't working but still there was music somewhere). Then it went into a boot loop, I tried to do recovery but it kept restarting even when I was pressing POWER + Volume down buttons.
Then what I feared the most, battery died. Whenever I connect to power source (no matter Computer or Wall charger) it automatically goes into boot loop, the device won't stop working at all it won't shut down nothing. Battery is out of charge and I can't charge the phone enough to do Factory Reset. I took it to Service center but they are having "holidays" because 8th march is women's day and then it's sunday...
I really hate the fact that the battery is sealed inside the phone! It becomes real headache in this situations I could just take the battery out and tried it out but NOPE, can't do that!
Plus it's my first android and it uses this mini sim card thing (which they happily shortened in the store) and I don't really have any other Android phones to use my card on since it's too small for older devices...
So, the question:
How do I charge my phone when it goes into boot loop every time I plug it in?
My PC can't recognize it (it makes the sound when you connect Flash device through USB and then in 0.5 sec makes the one when you disconnect that same device).
I just need my phone to work properly. Or at least start up!
Thanks to everyone who read this huge post and I'm really sorry if I missed one or another forum thread that describes my problem exactly (which is unlikely but still).
Thanks again, have a good day!
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See my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50106149
I would suggest replacing the Power Flex Cable and Battery as described. Hopefully it will fix your problem.
de4life said:
See my thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50106149
I would suggest replacing the Power Flex Cable and Battery as described. Hopefully it will fix your problem.
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That seems to be exactly my problem! Thanks!
Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
spears93 said:
Ok, I've owned my M8 for less than 2 weeks and my god what a phone it is!
or was...
Today at half 4pm I was using my phone and was curious as to what happens if you cover one of the cameras and take a photo. I turned my phone round, covered the top camera, turned it back around and accidentally pressed the volume button (i think) and took a photo as the little error it gives about having the top camera covered appeared.
The phone turned off...
I turned it back on, the white 'HTC Powered by Android' screen appeared, then went off again.
I tried again, and again. By the 4th time my 'uuuurgh I CANNOT be bothered for this' mood starts to kick in. However I discovered that it will boot, and work fine, when connected to the mains.
It appears that I have a power issue, however not a hardware power issue. The only times that the phone will now stay on without being plugged in is either in the recovery or HBOOT menu. I've confirmed this by keeping the phone in the HBOOT menu for over an hour on battery. If I boot the phone up whilst plugged in, it will cut out when the power cable is disconnected BUT ONLY when the battery icon goes from charging to discharging. There's a split second between them but it stays on until the icon changes every time.
I phoned HTC, the lady said that I can send it back for repairs but they'll have it 8-10 days. I haven't owned the phone myself for much longer than that!
Tomorrow I'll take it back to carphone warehouse and see what they can do. I don't want to have to look into rooting just yet (if that will sort anything) as I'm happy with it as it is stock. I'm just so gutted. PLUS none of my spare phones fit nano sims.
Anyone have any suggestions at all? I'm open to anything right now and I know that a lot of you reading this are a lot more knowledgeable than myself on the way android works so I'm hoping someone can shed some light. any light
Cheers guys
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all will be good your in your 28 days so cpw should hand you a new one take your box and bits with you
hi everyone
my phone was dropped in water.
when i checked it was still working but the screen starts to have like horizontal lines coming from down to up
. so i turned it off, dried it with a towel…
i restarted it later it started well…then it restarted with green and red English words as it it was programming or android installing updates or firmware lines.. hope you understand me...
so i turned it off again to disassembly well and dry it better…
the problem is now when i plug it to charge it, i can feel it vibe in repeat mode when i connect it... as if it was vibering, then wait then vibering...in loop
i tried a recovery mode but still nothing on screen…
my pc don't see it when i connect it…
doesn't smell good at all :crying:
and another problem...when i disassemblied it i think i break a little part of the nap where i connect the screen nap on it...at the top right…
you can see it on the picture i added…
i'll try to disassembly again to see if i can do something
thanks in advance for your advices and help
genesian
my mob also fell in water 9months ago...i didnt get any lines..,but i my self switched it off...later it didn't switched on shown black screen,only charging led works..that too different colors...so just kept it aside and after few hours magically switched On...
balugudidiot said:
my mob also fell in water 9months ago...i didnt get any lines..,but i my self switched it off...later it didn't switched on shown black screen,only charging led works..that too different colors...so just kept it aside and after few hours magically switched On...
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I juste Hope the little part i broke see the picturee won't Make it dead definitevely