So I’ve had this strange issue on my S9. I have my S9 connected to my Gear S2 and my S9 connected to my trucks BT. When I receive a call my truck rings, my phone rings and my S2 watch shows an incoming call. Then my Phone dies. The odd thing is my phone wont turn back no matter what I try. Hard reset etc. The only way It will power back on is if I plug it into the charger and the battery level shoots up to what ever percent it was at when it died. Now When this is all happening my phone is at 50-80% every time. And the last call that was coming in was not stored in my phones history.
Samsung support is lost and said they have not seen this. And I’ve tried removing all BT devices and re adding them.
Anyone heard of this?
bjl95mustang said:
So I’ve had this strange issue on my S9. I have my S9 connected to my Gear S2 and my S9 connected to my trucks BT. When I receive a call my truck rings, my phone rings and my S2 watch shows an incoming call. Then my Phone dies. The odd thing is my phone wont turn back no matter what I try. Hard reset etc. The only way It will power back on is if I plug it into the charger and the battery level shoots up to what ever percent it was at when it died. Now When this is all happening my phone is at 50-80% every time. And the last call that was coming in was not stored in my phones history.
Samsung support is lost and said they have not seen this. And I’ve tried removing all BT devices and re adding them.
Anyone heard of this?
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In would try some benchmarks and junk try loading the battery. Could be a issue there supplying voltage but the strength behind it's gone. Dead cell maybe. Just weird under Bluetooth. I get amazing battery life on my s8 with multiple Bluetooth items through the day as well as my gear s2
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My Artemis gradually stopped working with my SIM card, calls started getting dropped, I started not being able to receive calls. After a while, it would lose connection to the network whenever I would try to place or receive calls. I could have one phone call mine and I would watch it lose connection to the network. Then, I tried a different SIM, and it worked again. I placed and received calls easily to my SIM in a different phone. I got my SIM replaced and it worked fine again with my Artemis.
Then, a new problem started appearing: it would randomly shut down without warning, while I was in the middle of a communication. It has shut down during a phone call, while I have been using GPRS or WLAN, and even once in the middle of sending an SMS. It has always been during communications, though. It has never been with a warning. It tries to start up and gets to the "Windows Mobile 6.1" screen before cycling again, unless I force it off and leave it for a few hours. It can shut off with up to 80% charge reported, and after turning it back on, it has 1% charge reported and a message to replace the battery. The way it looks to me is that a communication is eating up almost the entire battery at once. Is this a battery problem? Or a phone problem?
Thanks for helping.
P.S. I have tried different Radio ROMs, but have not flashed a different full ROM since the problem started. I have, however, reflashed the same ROM once, to no avail.
EDIT: I have the problem fixed, it was a battery issue, for those who are experiencing the same problem
Bump: I have now flashed gullum TouchFlo2d beta 5 on my Artemis, and still the same problem. I have not changed the radio ROM since the flash (but different radios have done nothing in the past). I can keep the phone on for days before it reaches 0% battery, but all communications drain the battery completely in a matter of seconds. I still get the low battery warning after (not before) rebooting while plugged in to a power source.
Bump. I have since gone back to using my old phone, as it is unacceptable to be able to send three SMS before the battery dies. Would you recommend ordering a new battery and trying it out?
Communications uses up a lot of juice so I'd try a new battery. Problem is, where is a good place to get batteries?
Well, batteries are rather cheap on eBay. I jus don't want to spend money on a new battery and then not need it, like I did with my last phone. I understand that communications uses up battery quickly, but draining a full charge in several seconds just from GPRS makes me wonder - is it a phone problem? Is the battery even being emptied, or is the phone really crashing?
I ordered a new battery, and it has finally arrived, and the old one apparently wasn't holding much of a charge. I can now use GPRS and SMS for more than 5 minutes before it turns off. What a relief.
Heya, just a quick question.
Got a Sprint Galaxy S3 here from a co-worker to back up her pictures and contacts (she doesn't use/remember her gmail account). I rebooted the phone and now I cant get the battery to charge at all. She was having issues with it so she upgraded to the S5.
It does connect to the computer with USB (the device connected notification plays) but that's about it. Can it be forced to turn on without the battery? A lot of older/other phones allow you to do this. If not no harm done I got what I needed off the phone. Was hoping to use it as a tinkering phone (got a few already lol).
jamesadalpiaz said:
Heya, just a quick question.
Got a Sprint Galaxy S3 here from a co-worker to back up her pictures and contacts (she doesn't use/remember her gmail account). I rebooted the phone and now I cant get the battery to charge at all. She was having issues with it so she upgraded to the S5.
It does connect to the computer with USB (the device connected notification plays) but that's about it. Can it be forced to turn on without the battery? A lot of older/other phones allow you to do this. If not no harm done I got what I needed off the phone. Was hoping to use it as a tinkering phone (got a few already lol).
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well right now im charging my battery and my brother jacks it when im asleep and levees me his dead one....but my suggestion would be see if it charges in another s3 or with external battery charger....if that doesn't work it finally died
Hi,
I am a long time lurker and big fan of the community. Here is my problem and steps I tried to do to fix it. My S3 was working fine on Thursday morning and I received some calls, sent some texts, etc. The phone was on my desk and all of a sudden wouldn't turn on. It had original battery in it that is 2.5+ years old and it worked well. Within last 2 weeks I noticed the battery would drop charge from full to 55% quicker than before but it was still performing. I tried charging it from PC usb, wall charger, USB power block, different USB cables and nothing worked. I read several posts here on XDA about similar problem that others experienced and tried connecting USB, getting red light and plugging battery after that and still nothing. What I was able to observe that while connected to power the phone would be able to turn on for a few seconds. Typically I would see only Samsung boot up logo and sometimes it would go to 2nd screen of Samsung Galaxy S3 and flicker and shut off. It would frequently show me empty battery sign. I also read a valuable tip about stores having old batteries before they send phones for repair and had someone call 6 stores and none of them had them.
Since the phone is able to boot up for a few seconds I did not think it was the phone and assumed it had to be the battery. I joined Amazon Prime and was able to order 2 batteries from them and had them delivered yesterday (Sunday). I also added standalone battery charger to my shopping cart but it would not be delivered in time and I removed it. I wanted it to add just in case there was a problem with USB connection on the phone and charge batteries externally. So last night I got the batteries and it is exactly the same thing, not charging and still boots up in similar fashion. One thing I was able to observe twice last night was that during one of my plug in cable, put in battery routines or maybe it was by pressing up volume & power. During two attempts instead of empty battery sign I saw a full green battery sign.
I am out of ideas on what to do. I am planning on making 2 hour round trip to Chinatown and walking around from store to store trying to find S3 standalone battery charger. Does anyone have any ideas what component could be causing this problem? Do you agree with me that USB cable must be pumping some power since the phone turns on?
For some reason this past couple weeks my watch has woken me up countless times during the night to these series of 6 super fast vibrations (while on the charging dock btw) but there are no notifications on my phone or watch. I figured it might have something to do with bluetooth so i did a test but it only vibrates twice when reconnecting to bluetooth on my phone. Has anybody else had this issue and know how to resolve it?
1st gen moto 360 btw, and I'm not even sure if i have warranty left on this
I'm used to Samsung flagships.. Never had an issue, all the way back to the Original Note, S2, Note3 etc all the way up to an S8.... I got an A50 because I wanted something inexpensive and don't really need a flagship device.. and the S7 I've been using as a spare was going on its second battery, and for $80 I figured I'd just get a basic phone, but now I'm having LOTS of regrets.
I've noticed wifi is flaky, at best. Data says it's connected, but will show NO internet, regardless of wifi or LTE connection, and will NOT return without a reboot, even after entering airplane mode, manually connecting/disconnecting from networks/wifi, does nothing,, only a reboot will restore services.
and, just now, I noticed my phone turned off.... wouldn't turn back on until I plugged it back in, then it showed 80% battery.. So I unplugged it, and it died 30 seconds later.. wouldn't power back on.... plugged it in, showed 79% battery... kept it plugged in.. restarted it.. and it again, randomly, just shut off.. No rhyme or reason.
I bought the phone brand new, and have had it less than a month..... It's been in a case since day 1 and not abused....
Did I just get a dud?