Hello,
Ive had this device for now 3 months and never once had a problem. I did however stay on stock for quite awhile just rooted. Recently Ive been testing out different roms and ran through quite a few until I heard about the all mighty CM gem by Sultan. So I figured I would give it a shot. Went ahead and downloaded that along with gapps like any other rom. Booted into TWRP and wiped both the system and cache/dalvik. Then went ahead and attempted to install the rom. Unfortunately midway through it froze and my screen artifacted. I figured I would give it a few seconds and the screen turned black with the notification light turned on. I then tried to reset it with a volume+power combo and nothing happened. After about 5 mins of letting it rest it turned back on.
I went ahead and tried this process again thinking it was just a fluke but nope happened again. So I figured it was a corrupt zip file and I would just go back to the stock image I flashed before which was working perfectly fine. Again froze and gave me artifacts. Hoping to find an answer I downloaded the latest TWRP image and flashed the roms again. Same outcome. I even went out of my way to flash the stock recovery, fully reset all my data through there and then reflash TWRP and sideload Sultan's CM. Which I for once actually got into the ROM however now whenever I get into the ROM my phone overheats instantly and I get the nasty artifacts back along with a reset of the phone. Well kind of the screen goes black and I have to wait until it cools off to turn it back on or else it wont turn on.
Anyone have this issue? Anyone know how to solve this? This is my only phone and I go off to college next monday. Thanks in advanced.
UPDATE: I now cannot get the phone to turn on. No haptic feedback, no LED notification light, no recognition in windows. Literally a paperweight at this point.
The same here, flashed CM and Gapps...
Phone hangs on boot, rebooted the phone and now it won't go on..
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So while i was making a backup on twrp, and let it finish and rebooted back to the phone and nothing lit up but my buttons i felt the lockscreen circle and what , and was left stump on what to do so i dusted the old odin out and unrooted blindfolded into download mode and did the proper stuff into stock ICS for T989, and it showed for the stock bootanimation at first, so i was like cool, i'll let it sit and settle before i do anything and it stayed on the samsung sign for about 15 mins, so i did a battery pull and then back to square one on the same problem but now under stock, any ideas on how to bring the light back up, kinda bummed that ive had this phone since it came out and still survived me and i just got it new gear so any ideas could help thank you
the samething happened to me buddy. go to stock recovery and wipe data and cache. and you will be fine.
just fully unrooted and sent it back since i had insurance
I had a similar issue last night.. turned out to be CWM screwing up.. reflashed to the newest cwm and everything worked again
The problem only happens when I reboot or turn on the phone. When it boots up, I get multiple results. A: It boots up normally (not a problem) B: When it gets to the samsung screen, it freaks out and reboots itself again and again. It's like it's struggling to boot up. One time it got to the gs 3, but then it looped back. C: This just happened today. I booted up and it went pass the samsung screen but when it got to the gs 3 screen, the screen turned a faint pink and it stayed on that screen.
This just happened right after version 8. I know 10 was messed up but on 9 and 11, this problem persisted. Also,I don't think the issue is the phone, since I don't have this problem on other Roms. If I'm wrong please let me know .
Any suggestions, advice, help, etc is welcomed.
Please... i really need help.
I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
Naddict said:
I suggest you start over, this will remove any corruption and gremlins you have klinging to your phone..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1904099.. Then re root and flash anew.
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I unrooted, went back to stock, it did a factory reset so no bugs should have been alive. I re-rooted, made a backup, did a factory reset and wiped dalvik, then I flashed the rom zip and rebooted. It gets stuck on the Gs III screen. I waited like 5 minutes and it didn't move. My battery was at 50% so I just put it on the charger and tried to boot up and it went through to the set up screen for gmail.Just to see if it was coincedental, I did another reboot but this time it got stuck again. It sounds like a system problem but i'm not sure.Like i said earlier, this only happens on Jellybomb.
Any other ideas?
Edit: I've tried switching recoveries but it doesn't fix it.
Sigh.
Okay, so I'm really at my last gasp here since what I've read so far appears to be worst case scenario, but here goes:
I was trying to flash my S3 tonight, finally got around to downloading a few ROMs tonight. I went and tried Codename Android, but that didn't work, just loaded a logo for what seemed like an eternity and never went anywhere. Went back into recovery mode, restored my backup from CWM to try to start over. Here's where I think I messed up. After restoring, I went and tried to install another ROM (AOKP JellyBean) and now, nothing. No LED light when it's plugged in, won't turn on at all, doesn't respond. I get the QHUSB_DLOAD when I plug it into my laptop, but otherwise, absolutely nothing. I've been looking and it looks like it's seriously bricked.. someone please tell me there's a way to fix this and I won't have to get it fixed.
So, I flashed yesterdays CM10.2 and had no problems, up until today. I was in class, using twitter, set the phone down, and looked back at it 5 minutes later to find it shut off. I restarted it, figured no big deal, it turned off again. I thought there was a problem with that nightly so I flashed back an older, more stable one(still 10.2). It booted up, and shut off again. Now, though, the phone boots up, shows Samsung, then shows the GS3 and CM logo, then just goes into a loop from there. I went to recovery and tried to wipe, which, oddly, the phone restarted again. Luckily I was able to get in and wipe data before a new reboot, but even that didn't fix it. I rebooted into recovery again, and it said something like "root access available" and asked me if I would like to use root, which I didn't get the chance to fully read because it restarted again. When I am able to successfully boot into recovery though, I get a warning saying "no file_contexts", this could be it?
I've already tried to flash back stock Touchwiz with Odin, but it keeps failing to do so. Any help with this?
EDIT: After successfully booting up a CM10.1 backup, I've begun to believe the power button is broke, because the power menu will randomly popup, followed by a shut down.
It's called SDS sudden death syndrome it's very common on the S3. It's a failure of the power button. It's a defect. If your phone is newer than a year old put it back to stock and take it to sprint.
Remember search is your best friend, Have a great day!
So i was using Darthstalker v3 and arter97 kernel 9.3 with no issues.
Suddenly one day, i noticed screen flicker when waking the device, followed by hesitation. So my first step was to wipe the dalvik/cache. That apparently did not help.
I then lost my bootup logos, as well as shut down, along with the screen pretty much refusing to come on.
I used smart switch to emergency recover the stock firmware. Nothing. Then i Odined a stock untouched rom. No change. Once i actually got the phone to render the screen in recovery, so i wiped everything three times, and and flashed darthstalker v6. I also rooted the phone again just before that. I
So when the phone is powered off, the battery icon is present, and the screen wakes to that no problem. Since i set the device to never timeout while charging,
when i plug it in, the screen comes on, but as soon as i try to touch it, poof, the rendering of the screen goes. But, while this occurs, i can hear the icons being pressed,
etc. Completely stumped as to what to do. Can someone help?
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strangely enough, I found a solution in a most peculiar way.
I managed to finally get into the phone by charging to 100 percent. Then, I downloaded flashify, and attempted to flash tekxodus rom, as well as selecting dalvik and cache wipe.
The flash did not work. the phone just rebooted. Then, I downloaded rom manager premium, and then rom manager attempted its prerequisite attempt to detect my recovery. (up until that point, I had twrp installed).
The detection lingered, so I pressed the back key and selected reboot into recovery. Surprisingly enough, I was back in Stock recovery.
So apparently the solution to the anomaly I encountered in the OP, is to either follow the simple steps above, or, to flash stock recovery in Odin. If that is at all possible for the user. I can confirm the above worked for me as I tried everything for the last week and this was the only method that worked.
The shutdown/startup logos are back, with no screen flicker or hesitation on sleep/wake.
msmercy42 said:
So i was using Darthstalker v3 and arter97 kernel 9.3 with no issues.
Suddenly one day, i noticed screen flicker when waking the device, followed by hesitation. So my first step was to wipe the dalvik/cache. That apparently did not help.
I then lost my bootup logos, as well as shut down, along with the screen pretty much refusing to come on.
I used smart switch to emergency recover the stock firmware. Nothing. Then i Odined a stock untouched rom. No change. Once i actually got the phone to render the screen in recovery, so i wiped everything three times, and and flashed darthstalker v6. I also rooted the phone again just before that. I
So when the phone is powered off, the battery icon is present, and the screen wakes to that no problem. Since i set the device to never timeout while charging,
when i plug it in, the screen comes on, but as soon as i try to touch it, poof, the rendering of the screen goes. But, while this occurs, i can hear the icons being pressed,
etc. Completely stumped as to what to do. Can someone help?
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yeah i just suddenly started having this problem. my phone would reboot itself and then it would be updating apps as if i just flashed xposed or something, my phone would have issues with wifi, flickering lockscreen, and if you rub the screen while its off which wouldl show you information stream doesnt work either. Decided to dump the rom. Am going with the TEKXodus N5 with arter kernel
powerful111 said:
yeah i just suddenly started having this problem. my phone would reboot itself and then it would be updating apps as if i just flashed xposed or something, my phone would have issues with wifi, flickering lockscreen, and if you rub the screen while its off which wouldl show you information stream doesnt work either. Decided to dump the rom. Am going with the TEKXodus N5 with arter kernel
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It's just like I told you. When I read that you had experienced the same precursors that I came across with the rom, I had a hunch you would be soon after posting the exact issues that I eventually ran into.
So when you download Tekxodus and flash, please keep me informed as to if it resolves the issue. As you are aware, stock firmware has not resolved the problem for me, but then again devices vary.
So enjoy the fix if you ever run into the above issue.
Im fine with stock, but I miss the fun of trying new roms.