It fell face down. There's no visual damage, but it won't power on anymore. I tried charging but the front light won't even turn on. I did the power/volume button trick. Nothing works.
I think something got knock loose. It's now within warranty. Any ideas?
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Will
I got it running. I watched an I-Fixit video on how to take it apart. I could see where everything was on the inside without opening mine up. I squeezed the phone and it started working. I guess the battery cable jarred loose when it fell.
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Sorry if this question's been answered in another thread, I tried searching and couldn't find any question that exactly matched mine, or any response that solved the issue.
I purchased a used, unlocked Galaxy Nexus from ebay around a month or two ago, in near perfect condition -- this has been the first time I've had any problems with it. It's probably not applicable, but after the release of the dev preview for Ubuntu phone OS I rooted the phone and reinstalled the factory image "takju 4.2.2 (JDQ39)".
Anyway, a few hours ago I accidentally bumped my phone off of a counter in the kitchen onto the tile floor. I picked it up and looked it over, and noticed no visible damage whatsoever, although the plastic cover had been partially dislodged; however, the phone's screen was dark, and the phone was unresponsive. I took out the battery and replaced it, then held down the power button. The phone vibrated once, like it normally did when booting up, but the screen remained black and the phone unresponsive unless I removed and reinserted the cover again.
I've tried charging it, plugging it into my pc, removing both the battery pack and the SD card, taking the battery out and rebooting it while holding both power buttons down, but I still get no response (and my computer doesn't recognize the phone when I plug it in). After reading a post where someone had success reconnecting the display, I unscrewed and removed the casing, then disconnected and reconnected the display from the motherboard -- still nothing.
Is there anything else I can do, or is my phone beyond repair?
Did you check the other connections while you had the phone apart?
bodh said:
Did you check the other connections while you had the phone apart?
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I opened it up again and took pictures, but I'm not very knowledgeable about this sort of thing, so I can't tell if anything's wrong or not. Should I remove the motherboard to get a better look at the display?
You're talking about the back cover which became dislodged upon impact? I'd say you're lucky that the phone still gives that vibrate. But it seems there are so many things that could go wrong from an impact. Do you have fastboot? [I know you said you tried holding down both volume buttons and power, but try pressing them first then tapping power.] If you don't have fastboot, then your only options would be omapflash and odin. If these do not work, it's gonna be hardware. Maybe the display is gone, if you get the vibrate but see nothing..
Ok, So here's the story. My Fiancee and I had our phones get water damage. Both were soaked on a wet table that had drinks being served on it. My phone was mostly protected as it had a good otterbox on it. hers only had a small silicone case. Mine is ok after a night drying out though on closer inspection of the inside, I'm glad I let it dry for the night. Hers on the other hand wouldn't boot up. I let it dry for another 24-48 hours. Took it apart and there was some major water damage to the board. Ok, no prob. Alcohol swabs to the inside and cleaned all up. Boots up but no screen. Take it apart and clean again. Swap my phone's board with her's and the screen will turn on with my board in there. Ok so its not the screen. Cleaned her board again, and removed the sim and microsd plate, cleaned behind there. But I noticed there were a few, I'm not sure what they are (mabye resistors) they were burn out/crumbled on cleaning. F' me, Right? Anyways, re assemble. Power on, YAY the screen works. Boots up to main screen AWESOME! play with it a min, POWER OFF. WTF!?! Ok no prob just a dead battery. Swap with my phones battery. Powers up... On main Screen BAM, POWER OFF, EFFF. Ok plug it in. Boots up, powers off till I'm Sure battery is dead. Plug it in to a 1A. nothing 2.1A Powers on but dosen't stay on. once off it will not go to Battery Screen. Just power up and then off. I don't mind wiping if it is a Software issue but I would like is the photos off before I wipe. Any thoughts if I can get into it. One thing I did notice is that the computer didn't detect when it was plugged in. So I coulden't get photos off. She/I want the photos off BEFORE we wipe. Any thoughts?
TL;DR Powers on for a min but will not stay on. will not charge. Can boot into recovery mode. Rooted and unlocked, OS 4.0.4 w/ telus.
Adam
My tmobile galaxy s3 was turning on by itself as soon as i put the battery in it. The phone would stay on for about 5 seconds then turn off. This repeated itself over and over again as soon as i put in the battery in.
I took it in to get repaired and the guy told me its the power switch so he replaced it.
I rooted my phone and put a 4.3 rom on it. Everything started up fine and installed properly.
2 days later the same issues on it turning on by itself and turning off. I took it in to the same shop and they are blaming me for a bad root.
Any thoughts?
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My tmobile galaxy s3 was turning on by itself as soon as i put the battery in it. The phone would stay on for about 5 seconds then turn off. This repeated itself over and over again as soon as i put in the battery in.
I took it in to get repaired and the guy told me its the power switch so he replaced it.
I rooted my phone and put a 4.3 rom on it. Everything started up fine and installed properly.
2 days later the same issues on it turning on by itself and turning off. I took it in to the same shop and they are blaming me for a bad root.
Any thoughts?
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It could be a problem with the power button. I had a similar problem with my gs3 when I bought it used. If you take the battery out and then put the battery back in and the phone boots up by itself without touching the power button then it might be the same problem I had..
I don't recommend this fix for everyone with a power button problem but in my case it fixed it and it's been perfect ever since I did this..
I fixed mine by taking my phone apart and taking my dremel tool with a fine grinding wheel and sanding just a millimeter or two off of the face of the internal power button. The silver power button that you see on the outside of the phone is just a cover that presses on the internal button which is just a tiny micro switch. I found that the external button was always putting pressure on the internal button and causing the phone to constantly reboot. By sanding a bit off of the internal button it gave it some space so it wasn't always putting pressure on the button. There's a few video's on youtube that show how to take the phone apart to get to the power button. It's very easy.
So dropped the pixel in pooring rain, picked it up within 5 seconds and the screen was smashed, but the phone still worked for a little bit. Then it entered a boot loop and couldn't get out of it. I took it to a repair shop and they said the thing is toast. I did a little bit of research on line, and the verdict is that it could be the flex cable. The way to test it is to just hold down the volume down and it should go into recovery mode. I told the repair shop and they said they tried it, but no such luck. I'm not sure if they actually tried it or not, but I'm not ready to give up on this thing. I've taken it apart and while charging it, I could feel it vibrate as if it would turn on, and it would repeatedly do this every 20-30 seconds. I removed the power flex cable and examined it. It doesn't seem to be damaged, but while I had it removed, the device also stopped vibrating. Since I can't see the screen I don't know if it's off, or removing the flex cable stopped the boot loop. Any ideas from the brain trust on there's hope for this thing, or should I just trash it?
Also, I just realized that when I pulled the flex cable off and put my finger on the finger print scanner the device vibrates.
My a50 keeps flickering but not in a way that would make you think that the LCD has a problem.
Last night it poured really hard. My clothes were all wet and my phone was in my pocket too. Worked fine until just an hour ago. It's as if the lock button was being pressed at 20 times a second. Whenever it stops and I get to unlock it, it locks itself after a couple seconds and it just flickers over and over again. rinse and repeat. I took off the case and of course, there's moist mostly at the bottom and some to the sides. (not sure if the moisture was from last night though.)
The only way i could restart it is by holding Vol- and Power buttons. Screen is pretty much fine when displaying the Samsung logo, which makes me think it's not an LCD problem.
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My a50 keeps flickering but not in a way that would make you think that the LCD has a problem.
Last night it poured really hard. My clothes were all wet and my phone was in my pocket too. Worked fine until just an hour ago. It's as if the lock button was being pressed at 20 times a second. Whenever it stops and I get to unlock it, it locks itself after a couple seconds and it just flickers over and over again. rinse and repeat. I took off the case and of course, there's moist mostly at the bottom and some to the sides. (not sure if the moisture was from last night though.)
The only way i could restart it is by holding Vol- and Power buttons. Screen is pretty much fine when displaying the Samsung logo, which makes me think it's not an LCD problem.
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remove your rear panel, and with the phone shuted off, heat him, and leave at lest a couple hours opened, until it dry totally
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remove your rear panel, and with the phone shuted off, heat him, and leave at lest a couple hours opened, until it dry totally
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I just plugged the phone in to charge it and the problem just went away on its own. I'm just going to assume that charging it "un-shorted" it.
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I just plugged the phone in to charge it and the problem just went away on its own. I'm just going to assume that charging it "un-shorted" it.
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probably with the heat of the result of charging have dried some parts os your smartphone