my daily driver LG G3 just self bricked
phone was left on in airplane mode when leaving work, when came home I left it in airplane mode
before going to bed I looked at eBay but in the middle of using phone the screen slowly faded and went black without any low battery warnings. Thinking the battery was low I plugged in phone to charge, red light indicated phone was charging.
The next morning light shows solid green, full charge
pressed power on button, instead of booting the screen lit up showing that phone is already turned on
yahoo mail app showed something like allow access to your contacts I clicked no
Android system briefly shows a message 'uh-oh, something went wrong'
screen fades to black, pressing power button will not bring it back
pulled the battery
now on power on LG then T-Mobile logo shows, but after that just black screen
green notification button blinks twice.
pressing power button, plug and unplug usb power does nothing.
plugging phone to linux PC it shows LG phone but when mounted usb folder shows nothing inside (usb debugging not turned on, phone is stock not rooted).
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Hey, I have a problem with an old HTC Desire of my brother: Yesterday the phone was charging and then just crashed. When i power it on, the HTC-screen appears and just after that the screen turns black. Then I have to pull out the battery to be able to do this again.
The screen flickers when the bootscreen is displayed an gets darker before it goes finally black. I think the battery is empty, because the pins in the charging socket are twisted, so I think the battery wont get charged.
If I press the back button and power this menu appears, but then the phone also shuts down. If I press volume down and power the bootscreen appears but the phone turns off before I can see the bootloader
ROM: Cyanogenmod 7
S-Off, Root
What do you think? My brother says that the phone was almost fully charged when it crashed, but when I plug in the charger now the LED normaly shing red is not on..
Edit: I managed to get to the cyanogenmod screen, but then it turned off. Im pretty sure it is the battery
Any help?
Hello,
I am having an issue with my S 3. It is not booting up as it should. The model is SGH-1747M.
I have tried the following and have had the following results:
1) The phone is non-responsive when attempting to power it on with the power button.
2) If I remove the battery, with the phone not plugged in, and then put the battery back in, the phone begins to power on by itself. It vibrates once and then loads to the Samsung screen and then goes off.
3) If I plug the phone in without the battery, the phone vibrates once and the red charging light comes on but then goes off after a couple seconds.
4) If I plug the phone in without the battery, and then insert the battery as soon as the red light comes on, the charging screen comes on but then the phone goes off after a couple seconds.
5) If I put the battery in with the phone unplugged and hold Volume Down, Power and the Home Button, the phone boots to the screen where you can push up on volume to flash new firmware. If I stay on this screen without pressing anything, the phone turns off after a couple seconds. If I push up on the power button, it goes to the screen with the green android man but then turns off after a couple seconds.
6) If I put the battery in with the phone unplugged and hole Volume Up, Power and Home and then release them on the Samsung screen, blue writing pops up in the top left corner (I couldn’t read quick enough what it says) while still on the Samsung screen and then it loads to a screen saying Samsung Galaxy S III and then the phone turns off.
These problems started when I attempted to connect my phone to my laptop to transfer songs over to it. I connected the phone and the battery was charging, but it wasn’t showing up as connected on my laptop. So, I turned the phone off to restart it but when I went to turn it back on, these issues started.
The phone was rooted and has been for the last 7 months without any changes to the firmware or updates to the firmware in that time period and has not encountered any problems prior. I’m not sure what firmware the phone was on prior to this.
If anyone could offer any assistance with this it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Hi,
I'm no expert, but it looks like a faulty/stuck power button. It's normal for the phone not to completely boot up when it is powered off and then plugged in to USB. But it is not normal for the phone to reboot itself when in recovery or in Android. That's why I think the power switch might be the cause.
Here's the story.
I was playing games in my phone until I slept but forgot to remove my phone from being charged. When I woke up, my phone no longer turns on.
Here are what's happening and current status
- Rooted and has custom ROM
- Currently not detected by Odin when plugged into PC.
- When I turn on the phone, the Samsung logo does not appear. Order of screen appearance is that is is lit up but the screen is still black, then less lit then unlit.
- The scenario above also happens when I plug my phone in the PC but there is no light indicating that the phone is being charged
- I tried the Home + Power + Vol Up or Vol Down combination but the phone does not reset. Recovery or download mode does not show up.
Can anyone help on what happened?
Regards,
Cedrick
UPDATE
Phone can now be detected by Odin. I can flash the Bootloader and TWRP recover. However, there isn't anything that appears on the screen of the phone. Do you think this is more of broken LCD?
Also on the screen, there is a part that is white and this is the hottest part. The phone is gotta be warm when turned on but this part is too hot.
cedrick9998 said:
Here's the story.
I was playing games in my phone until I slept but forgot to remove my phone from being charged. When I woke up, my phone no longer turns on.
Here are what's happening and current status
- Rooted and has custom ROM
- Currently not detected by Odin when plugged into PC.
- When I turn on the phone, the Samsung logo does not appear. Order of screen appearance is that is is lit up but the screen is still black, then less lit then unlit.
- The scenario above also happens when I plug my phone in the PC but there is no light indicating that the phone is being charged
- I tried the Home + Power + Vol Up or Vol Down combination but the phone does not reset. Recovery or download mode does not show up.
Can anyone help on what happened?
Regards,
Cedrick
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Seems like the screen is borken
If I take the battery out and put it back in, phone vibrates once as if booting up but screen blank, nothing else happens.
A couple of times I saw the samsung logo or that it was entering recovery, but then the screen went blank and nothing happened.
If I plug the phone in to charge via usb the notification light is red for a moment, then flickers out.
Edit: I think something is wrong with the power button, it might need to be replaced, it almost booted into system and hung. If I even gently touch the power button it brings up the power down menu. I'm trying to figure out if it can be replaced, if anyone has tips let me know.
The power button can be replaced but you need to have the correct tools to desolder and resolder the button.
I'm not very good at board-level repairs but there are how-to videos on YouTube to guide you through the process.
I hope I'm posting this in the right place but I'm desperate for help.
My phone, HTC 10, froze and then the screen turned off while I was taking a picture.
The charge should have been around 80%.
Symptoms:
The screen is unresponsive.
Couldn't get the home button/finger print sensor to turn the screen on.
Couldn't get the power button to turn the screen on.
A call to my phone could not reach my number as well.
When plugged in to a wall charger or laptop no indicator light turns on.
When connected to a laptop, the laptop makes that connection noise and a long name with QualComm in it shows up.
Tried Power Button + Volume Up for 10 seconds but didn't get any result.
Side note:
The power button was a little faulty before as well.
You have to squeeze it a certain way to make it work.
I need to somehow restart my phone. Any ideas?
PointOfViewGun said:
I hope I'm posting this in the right place but I'm desperate for help.
My phone, HTC 10, froze and then the screen turned off while I was taking a picture.
The charge should have been around 80%.
Symptoms:
The screen is unresponsive.
Couldn't get the home button/finger print sensor to turn the screen on.
Couldn't get the power button to turn the screen on.
A call to my phone could not reach my number as well.
When plugged in to a wall charger or laptop no indicator light turns on.
When connected to a laptop, the laptop makes that connection noise and a long name with QualComm in it shows up.
Tried Power Button + Volume Up for 10 seconds but didn't get any result.
Side note:
The power button was a little faulty before as well.
You have to squeeze it a certain way to make it work.
I need to somehow restart my phone. Any ideas?
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Try to clean all buttons really well, if it keeps failing to boot and the phone is still recognized as Qualcomm it's probably bricked.
Simple explanation of the word bricked :
When the phone doesn't boot, when you can't access the bootloader, download mode or recovery it's bricked!
Mr Hofs said:
Try to clean all buttons really well, if it keeps failing to boot and the phone is still recognized as Qualcomm it's probably bricked.
Simple explanation of the word bricked :
When the phone doesn't boot, when you can't access the bootloader, download mode or recovery it's bricked!
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Strange turn of events: I plugged the phone to my laptop because I read somewhere that it drains the battery. Just for the kicks, after a few hours, I unplugged and re-plugged my phone. Suddenly, there was light. The battery light came back. I immediately switched to the wall charger and once I did that the battery icon appeared showing 1%. Now, it's peacefully charging away. Will see if it actually turns on later on once it's charged about half an hour.