I was starting to download some digital magazines I'd checked out from the library using the Zinio app. When I started, the screen flashed for a second and then the screen went black and the animated Samsung logo popped up like the tablet was powering down, or like you see when powering up. The only problem is that it's been that way for about a half hour now. It's not doing anything that I can see. I've tried to power down and it won't shut off. I've closed the magnetic cover, and it won't go to sleep. I've tried the volume up/power button reset, and that does nothing. I guess it's just going to stay like this until the battery dies completely. Has anyone ever seen behavior like this? Any ideas?
Thanks for any advice or opinions.
- Byron
Try holding Power+Vol Down+Home at the same time. It should reset to the bootloader screen. Then you can press Vol down to reset the tablet.
Thank you for the suggestion. I'm back in business!
It did not reset to the bootloader. It just went dark and reset completely. No options or anything that I could see. Or maybe that's what you meant by the bootloader screen. Anyway, I didn't have to press any other buttons after holding down the Power+Vol Down+Home buttons for about ten seconds. It completely shutdown/rebooted and, once it came back up, everything seems to be fine.
Thanks again for the suggestion.
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Has anyone else experienced this? If I hit the power button on my phone, the screen goes crazy and it eventually goes off. It starts to turn back on but then during the boot animation it just cuts off again. If i boot into recovery, it cuts out there too. I was trying to wipe my phone but it wont stay on long enough. I'm running the new cm 10 stable.
Saw this in another thread and they came up with a faulty power button. Either it's getting stuck or the actual connection is effed. Does it stick a little when pressed as in is it not fully popping back up? Because if it's happening in recovery too than that seems to be the case I would think. Have you had your device for a while now or is it newer?
Yep, sounds like a sticking button. The phone is hard wired to reboot when the power button is held for a number of seconds, no matter what is going on (it's equal to a battery pull), so if the button is stuck, you're in a loop.
Sent from my beastly Galaxy S 2.
I went to plug in my one x to charge. The second that I plugged it in, the screen went black. The home and back keys were still lit up. I'm not sure if it auto restarted or I powered it down. After that it seemed like it was just going to restart, but it only got to the htc logo screen. The normal little orange bar showed loading. I think it only does that once normally, now it goes twice. When it finishes that animation, it just sits at the white htc screen.
I haven't modified anything recently. It has been running over a year with no changes. If I hold power down at the screen, the home keys flash every few seconds. After seven flashes, the phone powers down and immediately restarts. There is no way to power it down until it dies. I took it apart and removed the battery for a few minutes, that didn't help at all.
If I home power and volume down, the red charge light comes on a few seconds. It then seems to boot to a black screen. I can't see anything, but the home keys are lit up. If I hold power down a while, it goes back to booting to the white logo screen. I tried hooking it to my computer, but it isn't getting to a point where it is being recognized as being plugged in.
I assume the thing is beyond help, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I went to plug in my one x to charge. The second that I plugged it in, the screen went black. The home and back keys were still lit up. I'm not sure if it auto restarted or I powered it down. After that it seemed like it was just going to restart, but it only got to the htc logo screen. The normal little orange bar showed loading. I think it only does that once normally, now it goes twice. When it finishes that animation, it just sits at the white htc screen.
I haven't modified anything recently. It has been running over a year with no changes. If I hold power down at the screen, the home keys flash every few seconds. After seven flashes, the phone powers down and immediately restarts. There is no way to power it down until it dies. I took it apart and removed the battery for a few minutes, that didn't help at all.
If I home power and volume down, the red charge light comes on a few seconds. It then seems to boot to a black screen. I can't see anything, but the home keys are lit up. If I hold power down a while, it goes back to booting to the white logo screen. I tried hooking it to my computer, but it isn't getting to a point where it is being recognized as being plugged in.
I assume the thing is beyond help, but any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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"home power and volume down"?
If you mean HOLD power and volume down, trying to get to bootloader, and you cannot, you're not going to be able to do anything else with and to your phone I am afraid.
If you ARE holding down the Home key in the process, I am not sure if it makes a difference but don't.
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Tigerlight said:
"home power and volume down"?
If you mean HOLD power and volume down, trying to get to bootloader, and you cannot, you're not going to be able to do anything else with and to your phone I am afraid.
If you ARE holding down the Home key in the process, I am not sure if it makes a difference but don't.
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Sorry, you are correct, it should have said hold. I tried to edit it, but it wouldn't let me edit so soon after posting as a new member. My phone has been through a lot. In the process of opening the case many times, the volume bar got damaged. I have to use something metal against volume down to manually trigger it. I'm fairly certain that it has tried to boot into the loader though. I guess the charger had a short and fried some memory..
Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
Sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the power button is sticking. Try using an object see if the button is physically depressed. If not, then it us the switch inside.
Ixthusdan said:
Sounds like a hardware issue, specifically the power button is sticking. Try using an object see if the button is physically depressed. If not, then it us the switch inside.
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I can press the button though. I can press and Hold it to reset it, and I can press it to get it to go on again.
I guess that is possible, but if it was intermittent, the times I've just pressed the button repeatedly to try to get it to do something should have gotten me past that scrolling boot menu.
Thing is, the reason it is scrolling is from an input from the button. If the button is not the issue, then it is a circuit problem. Bad news. Better to have been the button.
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Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
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Can you PC see you tablet in adb or fastboot???
ScoJoh said:
Howdy!
It was literally AGES ago that I rooted my Kindle.
It's been totally fine forever! Then last night it needed charged so I plugged it in and went to bed. When I got up in the morning the power button was lit a nice shade of green, showing it was charged....
So later in the day I went to turn it on... nothing.... So I held the button to reset it.... After a bit I pressed the button...
The Blue KindleFire screen came up (with the statement at the bottom to "Press power button for boot menu...)
I didn't press anything, but it acts like I did and soon I see the three choices of "Normal Boot, Recovery, Reset Boot Mode" and the lines on each end move from choice to choice over and over....
That's all it does! I can press the power button and it doesn't do a thing. It just keeps scrolling.... If I hold the power button, it'll shut off after awhile.... but when trying to boot it again, it goes right back to that boot menu, scrolling through my choices and that's it. I have yet to find a way out of that.
I've tried plugging it into the charge to see if for some reason it's a power issue, but it does the same thing. I've tried plugging it into the PC via USB cable and it does the same thing!
Anyone have any suggestions or pointers? I'm kinda lost at this point, I've never had an issue that I couldn't recover it from until now, and I've had this thing for a good number of years.
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Can it boot into reecovery?
Sadly no, the PC will not see it. It doesn't get far enough to be seen.
I did find a little more info. I used the Kindle Fire Utility 0.9.6 and it's running FFF 1.4a I believe? (bootup screen with the Blue Kingle Fire Logo).
The weird thing is, if I have the USB cable plugged into it and hit the power button, it won't come at all. I have to unplug it in order to get the boot sequence to come up.
If I remember correctly the boot options menu always scrolled, you just pressed the button when it was on the choice you wanted.
I did launch the KF Utility but when trying to do anything it just saying waiting for device because it isn't seeing the darn thing...
I really hope I'm not screwed. What really sucks was I had JUST been thinking about running the clean system image to restore it in TWRP but it did this before I decided to go ahead and do that.
My menus only scrolled if I press the power button. Otherwise, it boots whatever the menu is on. That is why I suspect the boot program is receiving an input from the button.
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My menus only scrolled if I press the power button. Otherwise, it boots whatever the menu is on. That is why I suspect the boot program is receiving an input from the button.
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Well... I'm reading elsewhere the same thing you said.... yet mine has ALWAYS scrolled since I first loaded it and only advanced when I pressed the button when it was on the choice.....
Perhaps my power button has been having an issue for far longer than I realized... yet when the system did boot it didn't act like it was being pressed constantly.
Such a confusing issue.... sadly it's looking more and more like I've just got a Kindle I can do nothing more with
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.
My SW3 appears to have died this morning. I unplugged it from the charger, put it on my wrist and pressed the power button to turn it on. I felt it vibrate to say it was on, but then later noticed that the screen was blank. I tried holding the power button to force a reset but nothing happened.
Before I send it off to Sony, does anyone know if there is a reset button anywhere or anything else I should try to get it to turn on?
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My SW3 appears to have died this morning. I unplugged it from the charger, put it on my wrist and pressed the power button to turn it on. I felt it vibrate to say it was on, but then later noticed that the screen was blank. I tried holding the power button to force a reset but nothing happened.
Before I send it off to Sony, does anyone know if there is a reset button anywhere or anything else I should try to get it to turn on?
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It once happened to me.
According to this site, to reset our SW3's we need to hold our power keys until the watch vibrates one time and restarts itself. But it didn't help me so there's another thing - to force the shutdown. Press power button until it vibrates three times, then turn it back on.
In my case, the watch started working as it should and such thing never occurred again.
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It once happened to me.
According to this site, to reset our SW3's we need to hold our power keys until the watch vibrates one time and restarts itself. But it didn't help me so there's another thing - to force the shutdown. Press power button until it vibrates three times, then turn it back on.
In my case, the watch started working as it should and such thing never occurred again.
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Thanks, I'd tried holding the power button but it wasn't doing anything. It actually turned back on last night, complained that the battery was flat and turned itself off again. Plugged it back in to charge and it's working again this morning. Although my Pujie Black watch face isn't updating as it should and I'm not getting notifications like I should either.
Think I'll give it a factory reset just to be safe.
Aaaaand won't turn on again this morning. Been holding the power button for ages, does nothing, won't connect to Xperia Companion for a reset neither.