Tapped my screen early morning to see the time, sometime after noticed "NOKIA" screen as in a shut-down/restart, which did not proceed further. Pressing/holding power button and even slipping the SIM in and out has no effect at all. Connecting to my PC shows up as a CD drive, but not the usual "Nokia 6" listing. Battery was 95% or so, do I have to wait a week for it to go dead and try a recharge - any experience with this, anyone ??
OK - found a clue after a bit of trolling around - got it to restart using the power and up-volume buttons simultaneously. I had tried it earlier, but did not know it needed at least 30 seconds to be effective.
Still a mystery why and what started the problem.
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Edit: Read second post for possible fix.
"Ugh, look at this idiot/noob posting another SDS thread! SPAMZ! " Now hold on there Mr./Mrs. forum person! Give me a chance, if you will, please! Let's start off with phone specs and all of that jazz.
Phone Specs (hopefully all-inclusive, sorry for unknown info)
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S III SPH-L710
Carrier: Sprint
Mobo: It's 16GB, so probably the one that's known to experience the SDS
ROM: FreeGS3 v3.0.0
Kernel: Ktoonsez (couldn't tell you the version, whatever the ROM came with when selecting "ktoonsezz" as my kernel during installation)
If you need more info, ask for it and I will try to supply it.
The Issue
So, I was sitting here using my phone as a wireless hotspot for my laptop, when I went to check on my phone because a webpage was not loading, when I turned on the screen it showed what I believe was the "critically low battery" pop-up, then the phone turned off in less than a second. First I tried to power the phone on: nothing happened. So, naturally, I grabbed my charger and plugged in my phone. Hopefully others know the screen that pops up when you plug in your GS3 while it is off, that little battery with the spinning circle in it? Well that pops up incredibly briefly, then my screen goes blank and the phone is completely unresponsive. I have tried battery pulls, multiple batteries, getting into download mode, anything and everything (as far as I know).
What to Do?
Do I have the SDS? :crying: Is the only option to take my phone in to a Samsung center and get them to repair it? (I think Samsung is building a GIANT building 5 minutes from my house.) Is there some simple thing I can do I am unaware of?
Thanks in advance //Slit
Miraculous Miracle! (9 steps)
Well I'll be darned (moments after post, of course)! I have a solution that may work for anyone with an identical issue:
1. Let phone sit plugged in to wall for some time (hour or so, 30 minutes is probably fine)
2. Keep phone plugged into wall
3. Have any case you may have and the back removed
4. Pull the battery
5. Have fingers ready on the download mode buttons
6. As soon as the battery is slipped in, press and hold download mode buttons
7. Miracle! (download mode starts)
8. Press down and reboot phone
9. Return to normal, clam, non-panicking state
Is Your Issue Semi-Identical to Mine?
If your phone will show that battery with spinning circle in it or light up the LED very briefly when you plug your phone into the wall, then this fix should work for you if done properly.
Hope this helps someone! //Slit
SlitWeaver said:
Well I'll be darned (moments after post, of course)! I have a solution that may work for anyone with an identical issue:
1. Let phone sit plugged in to wall for some time (hour or so, 30 minutes is probably fine)
2. Keep phone plugged into wall
3. Have any case you may have and the back removed
4. Pull the battery
5. Have fingers ready on the download mode buttons
6. As soon as the battery is slipped in, press and hold download mode buttons
7. Miracle! (download mode starts)
8. Press down and reboot phone
9. Return to normal, clam, non-panicking state
Is Your Issue Semi-Identical to Mine?
If your phone will show that battery with spinning circle in it or light up the LED very briefly when you plug your phone into the wall, then this fix should work for you if done properly.
Hope this helps someone! //Slit
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I have a very similar situation. Was playing around on the phone, and then it just froze, went black and I haven't been able to turn it on since. When plugged in there is no light, unless I don't use a battery then I get a red light for a short while (short while at least on a PC, I haven't tried for an extended period of time when plugged into the wall). PC recognizes it kind of. It recognizes that something is connected, but that is about it. I'm going to give this method a shot, hopefully it works. Just in case though, any other ideas?
I know there are already a LOT of topics concerning this - I have read through them all frantically, trying to find a solution before turning to asking myself.
So, here's exactly what happened, and what I've tried.
My phone was just fine, running perfectly, nice battery life. I had been running CarbonROM for about 2 months, without any issues, didn't change anything recent to this problem occurring. So one night I was at a party, and didn't have an available charger, so my phone ran out of power completely. The next morning when I came home, I set it to charge, the LED lit up, as far as I remember at least. In the evening I turned it on, and I got to the SIM pin-code unlock screen. I entered the PIN, and my phone turned off. No crash screen or anything, it just went straight out. I figured that maybe it hadn't charged properly, so I let it charge for a few more hours, and then tried again - same thing happened. I instantly tried to turn it on again, but this time nothing happened at all. I held the power button down for at least 1 minute, to no avail. When I put in the charging cable, the LED doesn't light up.
So, as I said, I have been reading around on this forum and other places, trying to find a solution. Some people said holding down the power button and volume up and down at the same time for 2 minutes would fix it, it didn't. I have tried several times. Most recently someone said I should connect my phone to my PC with the USB cable, and then hold down the power button and volume down. This time, something did happen. But not on my phone's end. I have done this 2 times, with the same result. At exactly 7 seconds, my computer turns off, as if I had "choked" it by holding down the power button on the PC. This seems really odd to me, since the phone can't even turn on, so I don't see how there can be any connectivity.
I hope someone here has a solution, knows why it happened, or can at least guide me in replacing any part if needs be. I hope not, though.
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Should I just send it in for a repair? I have an idea that doing so will be very expensive...
Hey guys, if anyone knows what might be causing it, please do tell so!
Here's a bit of info you might need:
I've had my device for about a year now and only ever dropped it from really low heights, which never caused any issues (except for a few breaklines on my screen).
My device has been rooted and I've installed a custom ROM (I can't recall which one exactly, but it never caused any problems and just made things better.
Starting about 6 months after I got the device, it started sometimes lagging a little.
Now just the night before, I plugged in my headphones, put on some music and went to sleep (as I do every night). The phone was not plugged into the charger. Once I woke up, I wanted to take a look at my phone to see the time, but it was just a black screen. I think it probably doesn't have any power left and plug it into the charger. Nothing happens. No icon, no little flashing light; nothing. I plug it into the computer and my computer doesn't recognize my phone to be connected, so it's not my display which is broken.
Now I think the problem must lie in the battery, but I'm not sure, since I can't take the battery out. So here's what I need to know:
1. How can I check if it's actually the battery that's broken?
2. Is it possible to open the phone and take out the battery somehow?
3. Is there a way to fix this? If so, how?
Keep in mind that I don't have warranty on the phone anymore, so I can't just send it somewhere to get it fixed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Let's hope for the best :fingers-crossed:
-Ben
0313ben said:
Hey guys, if anyone knows what might be causing it, please do tell so!
Here's a bit of info you might need:
I've had my device for about a year now and only ever dropped it from really low heights, which never caused any issues (except for a few breaklines on my screen).
My device has been rooted and I've installed a custom ROM (I can't recall which one exactly, but it never caused any problems and just made things better.
Starting about 6 months after I got the device, it started sometimes lagging a little.
Now just the night before, I plugged in my headphones, put on some music and went to sleep (as I do every night). The phone was not plugged into the charger. Once I woke up, I wanted to take a look at my phone to see the time, but it was just a black screen. I think it probably doesn't have any power left and plug it into the charger. Nothing happens. No icon, no little flashing light; nothing. I plug it into the computer and my computer doesn't recognize my phone to be connected, so it's not my display which is broken.
Now I think the problem must lie in the battery, but I'm not sure, since I can't take the battery out. So here's what I need to know:
1. How can I check if it's actually the battery that's broken?
2. Is it possible to open the phone and take out the battery somehow?
3. Is there a way to fix this? If so, how?
Keep in mind that I don't have warranty on the phone anymore, so I can't just send it somewhere to get it fixed.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Let's hope for the best :fingers-crossed:
-Ben
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I had something similar month ago. Please try the following. line by line
Plug in your charger and wait and observe some time (one hour) your phone and check if it is charging somehow. remove the cable.
Long press (maybe up to one minute or more) the power button
Try to press power button and "Volume -" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try to press power button and "Volume +" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try the above with plugged in charger
If it will give a life sign you are lucky, if not I have no other idea.
Here is the story of my "dead phone " which I could revive by described method
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73757007&postcount=393
123Bart said:
I had something similar month ago. Please try the following. line by line
Plug in your charger and wait and observe some time (one hour) your phone and check if it is charging somehow. remove the cable.
Long press (maybe up to one minute or more) the power button
Try to press power button and "Volume -" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try to press power button and "Volume +" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try the above with plugged in charger
If it will give a life sign you are lucky, if not I have no other idea.
Here is the story of my "dead phone " which I could revive by described method
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73757007&postcount=393
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Unbelievable!! I'd already tried to press those buttons for almost a minute, but it didn't work. But I decided to give it another shot and held it for almost double the time this time, and it actually vibrated, showed the penguin and then booted up!! Thank you so much
123Bart said:
I had something similar month ago. Please try the following. line by line
Plug in your charger and wait and observe some time (one hour) your phone and check if it is charging somehow. remove the cable.
Long press (maybe up to one minute or more) the power button
Try to press power button and "Volume -" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try to press power button and "Volume +" simultaneously again for more than one minute (boot ?)
Try the above with plugged in charger
If it will give a life sign you are lucky, if not I have no other idea.
Here is the story of my "dead phone " which I could revive by described method
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73757007&postcount=393
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A big thank you, it worked.
I did the manipulation, but I stayed pressed for two minutes.
thanks thanks thanks
I have an idol 4s and last night before bed, around 11:30pm, it decided it was a good time to windows update. I looked over and I saw the reboot and the gear icon, so although I knew I had about 50% battery I plugged it in and continued to read my book while waiting for it to finish.... except after the progress bar got to the end my phone never turned back on.
Despite several attempts at holding the power button to get it to come on, or plugging and unpluggin the power , all I get is the White Alcatel Idol4S boot screen, followed by the pink TMobile Logo.
Then, coincidentally as I'm writing this I plug it in again (coincidentally into my pc at work if that makes any difference) and it finally gets passed the windows logo and it shows the message at the top something about finishing up or whatever.
But as I recall, this happened on the last update, whenever that was too. Any idea what the heck is going on? Has this happened to anyone else?
RobbieRobski said:
I have an idol 4s and last night before bed, around 11:30pm, it decided it was a good time to windows update. I looked over and I saw the reboot and the gear icon, so although I knew I had about 50% battery I plugged it in and continued to read my book while waiting for it to finish.... except after the progress bar got to the end my phone never turned back on.
Despite several attempts at holding the power button to get it to come on, or plugging and unpluggin the power , all I get is the White Alcatel Idol4S boot screen, followed by the pink TMobile Logo.
Then, coincidentally as I'm writing this I plug it in again (coincidentally into my pc at work if that makes any difference) and it finally gets passed the windows logo and it shows the message at the top something about finishing up or whatever.
But as I recall, this happened on the last update, whenever that was too. Any idea what the heck is going on? Has this happened to anyone else?
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I cannot tell much from what you are describing, but my best advice is to let it do what it needs to do and finish.
Just plug it in and leave it alone. Possibly you interrupted the update/upgrade process, but who knows? Unless it hangs there for hours and hours I try to never touch my windows phones to force a soft reset unless I absolutely have to.
Yeah, so it happened again last night. Just as I was going to bed, I saw the black and white screen with the gears rotating, so I just plugged the phone into power and went to bed... but making sure to turn on my other device so I'd atleast have an alarm to wake up to. 8 hours later nothing. If I plug in power or unplug power, I'll see the tmobile splash screen and then nothing else.
[edit] Not sure how relevant this is. But when I plug it in to power. The white led near the camera turns on as usual. But after a while it turns off, which leads me to believe that the device is literally turned off because as I recall, genreally speaking, it is not possible to plug in a windows phone device and not have it charge. What makes it interesting though is that even though the led is turned off, I still see the device in "This PC" when it is connected. I just can't browse the device storage of course. So as soon as I disconnect, it is not visible on my windows 10 pc until I plug it in again. I finally long pressed the power button, and unlike earlier when I would just remove and reconnect usb power, this time, the White Alcatel/windows 10 branding showed up, THEN the pink tmobile logo. And finally it booted up.
Mine's been doing the same since the start of the year... I have to keep rebooting till it finally "works" again... takes about 45-60mins of rebooting.
Cross-posting this from r/NextbitRobin
So Tuesday night before bed I went to check my phone (which had been on the charger for the last couple hours and so was at >95%) and noticed the volume button was not responding. I figured something buggy was going on, sometimes I need to reboot my phone every couple of days to get it to work properly (especially if it had run down into low power mode before recharging), so after unplugging it from the charger, I held down the power button, selected reboot, and clicked okay. The phone then proceeded to shut down, but not start back up.
When I tried to start it up again by holding the power button, I got no response initially. Then I was able to get it to buzz/vibrate, but the screen never came on.
I tried holding down the Vol- button and the power button together for 20 seconds to force a reset, and it vibrates a couple of times, but nothing happens.
If I plug it into a charger, I don't see any LEDs illuminate, and it just vibrates approximately every 3 seconds (not continuously, it seems to have some semi-random pattern). If I unplug it, the vibrating stops, but I still can't get it to turn on. It does not seem to make a difference if I am using a wall charger or trying to charge it off my laptop.
I have not rooted the phone or installed any custom ROMS, and have had it since I bought it on Amazon in June of 2017.
Any ideas what might be the issue? Any tips for reviving my phone?
This doesn't seem to match anything I have been able to find with some basic google searching.
Edited to add that I also tried removing the sim card and starting it up without one, but that did not appear to make a difference.
Update: I left it plugged into a wall charger for about 18 hrs and when I came back there was no change in behavior.
This many sound repetitive but lets first get the obvious out of the way so that we are sure you tried the most basic things for sure.
Is there an issue with the cable not able to charge the device? Can you try changing the cable?
Power + volume down for 30 secs / 1 minute / few minutes. This usually helps, sometimes more than 30 seconds for some reason. Try doing it while plugged in.
When you connect to the laptop what happens? Does it power on for a minute or vibrate?
Do you have adb installed on your computer? does you device get detected on your laptop?
/root said:
This many sound repetitive but lets first get the obvious out of the way so that we are sure you tried the most basic things for sure.
Is there an issue with the cable not able to charge the device? Can you try changing the cable?
Power + volume down for 30 secs / 1 minute / few minutes. This usually helps, sometimes more than 30 seconds for some reason. Try doing it while plugged in.
When you connect to the laptop what happens? Does it power on for a minute or vibrate?
Do you have adb installed on your computer? does you device get detected on your laptop?
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Tried charging it with both the OEM cable as well as an amazon basics USB-c cable (both of which had been used to charge the phone successfully in the 24 hrs before it went wonky), no noticeable difference in behavior.
Held the power + volume down buttons for 180 seconds, did not boot. Repeated this with it plugged in (wall charger) and it still did not boot.
When I connect it to my laptop, I get the same behavior of vibrating as when plugged into a wall charger, but it does not boot or power on, nor does the laptop detect the phone in any fashion. I do not have adb installed on my laptop.
Anything else I can try, or is the phone a write-off at this point?
First step to solving any device issue is to somehow boot it and get in any mode possible. Since you can't do that I can't think of any other way to get it working.
I'm having the same issue, phone is not giving me any signs of life...frustrated at the moment
It's a total long shot, but try carefully cleaning out your charge port with a needle or a small pin and a little bit of alcohol. I pulled quite a bit of pocket lint out of mine and it works fine now. It didn't look like it was that dirty, but I pulled out a large ball bearing sized amount.
Other than that the only other thing I can think of is that your battery might be shot. It might have been taking enough of a charge to try and turn on, but not enough to do so.