Hiya!
I've had my XDAII/Himilaya for over a year now and its out of warranty and out of contract with O2 (thankfully, because I'm considering Skype). However, the XDA is dying on me, I think, and am hoping someone would shed some light on this situation...
The blue screen with O2 starts starts with a half screen after a hard reset, displaying the Radio, Protocol and ROM (1.05.12, 1337.12, 1.03.00 respectively). The other half (top half of the screen) is black. It idles in this state for sometime before entering into the main screen. Sometimes it doesn't do anything (freezes) and I have to do a, sometimes many, hard/soft resets.
I've read many forums and its a mystery to me why this is happening: The XDA cycles power after a few seconds. It looks like a soft reset. (Internal/External Battery is 100%.) This doesn't allow me enough time to understand what and why this is happening.
Now, I've tried to access it via ActiveSync (v3.8) so that I can try and diagnose what is happening in real-time. But this is not possible as ActiveSync 'bounces' in-and-out of connecting and not connected. Also, the XDA freezes when in the Docking Station.
Frustrated, spent many hours, days and weeks trying to resolve this issue, I'm at my last straw. If there is anything someone can tell me to resolve this issue it would be most appreciated.
Related
Recently my xda I began to restart itself without being used. When I put it in standby mode (power button) and after a while turn it back on, not always but at least 3-4 times a day it restarts itself.
Does someone know why is this happening and if there is a way to stop this.
P.S. - I don't know if this comes from the ROM because it has happened with different versions of ROMs.[/b]
The problem with the restarts is usually caused by the SIM card cover. Sometimes if you press it it will reset. There is a contact point underneath the rubber cover and it sometimes makes contact and resets the device.
You can try pressing it to see it the device restarts and you found your culprid. You may take the sim out and reinset it to see if the contact resets or you may have to have the unit sent in for repair/replacement with your phone provider!
Before anyone jumps on me, I've been going through the Wiki and forums extensively, and found just one similar problem. Which wasn't solved...
My HTC TyTN/Hermes 200 won't boot up anymore. It is totally dead. I even can't get it into bootloader mode. Screen stays blank and the LED is off.
Put the (3 months old) battery in another Hermes to test it, and it's at 100% charge.
My Hermes shows a steady red LED when it's plugged into power without the battery in, and no LED at all when the battery is installed. The red LED turns off when the battery is installed while there's power going into the unit.
I've left the battery out for at least an hour, plugged it back in, same results. Like the other guy I tried the "pull power, pull battery, plug in power, plug in battery, reset" trick http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286469&p=1077622 - to no avail.
Does anyone have any last resort ideas on how to get it to at least come back up to a boot loader screen ?
Help Me Too
Hi siliconaddict,
I have the same problem!
I received an SMS, slid open the keyboard and there...DEAD!
I also flipped through the forums for a long time, extensive googling but
to no avail!
H E L P !
No revival unfortunately
FREIMAURER said:
Hi siliconaddict, I have the same problem!
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In the past few days I have received some email messages with well-meant tips and tricks , which I already had tried myself. Nothing worked however ... The damn thing is totally dead .
I have obtained another (2nd hand) Hermes 200 in the meantime, in perfect condition and at a fair price, so I am back in the Hermes business again.
I will use the old one for parts, should I ever need them.
Sorry I could not help.
MfG
I am waiting for my Treo 750 without camera to arrive from USA which I ordered
in wise foresight.
I will probably buy a used Hermes with broken display and switch the boards and
use that one as replacement.
Thanks anyways...but what I find strange is that so many Tytns die at the same
time and this more often for the Tytn II generation.
Have a nice weekend!
Cheers
Dear All,
I would like to tell you quiet a scary story that happened to me today involving my View.
I was surfing on my View (while it was charging, probably about 30%-40% at the time) when suddenly without any slow-down/crash/other sign the screen goes dark and the View won't turn on. Nothing works, hard reset, unplugging, trying different outlets, chargers, connecting via USB to my desktop, laptop each for a few minutes- nothing. The only thing showing that there might be still some life inside my View was occasionally blinking orange/red light that caused me a little concern as it apparently often means that battery was overheating. That was certainly not a case as I've used the View in my pretty cold apartment in CT- the device felt pretty cold in my hands.
1 hour of hectic, trying everything to revive the tablet. Eventually even the red light stopped blinking. Like a doctor who's about to loose a patient I plugged it to the computer and typed some random commands through fastboot (of course the tablet wasn't even in a fastboot- but at that point I was in a full panic mode and for my sanity I felt I had to try everything). Eventually I stopped and was just holding the tablet in my hands, still plugged in my computer and thinking- wow, I rooted/unlocked/flashed 5 different android devices so many times so far and often with crazy, long and complicated processes. Somehow I've never bricked any and now my tablet just completely died on me when I was reading a wikipedia page on it at my desk. I was about to put it down and go look for the warranty when suddenly the screen goes on and the htc logo appears. And then it booted right to the OS. And for the last few hours it works like nothing ever happened.
Anybody got a similar story? Any idea what could've happened?
Hello,
I have an international unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) that is no longer in warranty and that started behaving strangely (unresponsive) a couple of weeks ago on Android 4.1.2 (official ROM, rooted with CF-AutoRoot).
After reading several threads here on XDA I believed it was subject of Sudden Death. So I started with a factory reset and rooted the phone again with CF-AutoRoot but after that I still experienced the same freezes and started my mission to try and resolve this using whatever method was required.
I starting with trying the DFG app but to no avail. The freezing was provoked but did not go away after many days of iterations and freezes (it always recovered out of a freeze).
Next I tried the eMMC check app to verify on what version I was so that I could help my in further pinpointing the problem. It said I was safe, but while running that app the phone freezed again but this time the screen turned purple/pink and it did not recover from the freeze after several hours until I finally removed the battery. The purple/pink turned into purple/pink with black lines and after removing the battery I could not power on the phone.
In all desperation I started trying out different "SDS-safe" custom kernels, ROMs and bootloaders (all flashed using Odin on my laptop) but the problem did not go away. In fact, I discovered a very strange correlation between the time that I leave the battery out the phone and the time it takes before the purple/pink freeze occurs again.
If I wait half an hour, put the battery back in the phone and boot it (in whichever mode) it would freeze/flicker/die after about 20 seconds. If I would wait several hours, put the battery back in the phone and boot it it would freeze/flicker/die after a solid 1 or 2 minutes.
Whether the phone is connected to the laptop or not makes no difference. I also tried with a different battery but the same behavior occurs.
After waiting a solid day, in still in act of desperation, I decided to flash the leaked 4.2.2 (I9300XXUFME7) official ROM. But even after a factory reset and wiping of cache I found that the problem still remained.
Now I believe I've tried almost everything I've found on these forums I'm not sure what I can still do. It seems it's not battery, ROM, kernel or bootloader related and it also does not seem a case of Sudden Death (I never heard mention of the purple/pink flickering, and it also never snaps out of the freeze; also the strange correlation between battery out of the phone and time before it freezes is something I haven't read about).
From all the research I've done I've not encountered anyone with the same symptoms (does not wake out of freeze, purple/pink lines appear on screen when freeze starts and keep flickering for hours, there seems to be a correlation between the time the battery is out of the phone and how long I have before it freezes again when I turn it on) and I'm running out of ideas.
I believe it is hardware related (but not a screen issue) rather than software related because the USB connection with the laptop disconnects when it freezes, purple/pink flickering and no recovery; but I have no idea what options I still have.
Before I give up on the phone does anyone have any recommendations of what I can try before sending it to a Samsung repair center?
Attached are 4 pictures to show the typical process after waiting ~4 hours and powering on the phone:
Phone boots OK
The phone freezes and a purple/pink overlay appears
More and more flickering making the screen turn more and more purple/pink
The screen seems to be divided in 4-5 parts
Everything is pink and black lines start to appear
Thank you for your time.
I'd say you need a new motherboard or screen, possibly both - you've ruled out any software causes.
just had this issue
Did you find a solution, given the fact that this happened a long time ago?
I was watching a video and my screen turned pink like the 4th photo you posted.
Now it wont work, get the pink screen everytime is turned on.
dendera said:
Hello,
I have an international unlocked Samsung Galaxy S III (GT-I9300) that is no longer in warranty and that started behaving strangely (unresponsive) a couple of weeks ago on Android 4.1.2 (official ROM, rooted with CF-AutoRoot).
After reading several threads here on XDA I believed it was subject of Sudden Death. So I started with a factory reset and rooted the phone again with CF-AutoRoot but after that I still experienced the same freezes and started my mission to try and resolve this using whatever method was required.
I starting with trying the DFG app but to no avail. The freezing was provoked but did not go away after many days of iterations and freezes (it always recovered out of a freeze).
Next I tried the eMMC check app to verify on what version I was so that I could help my in further pinpointing the problem. It said I was safe, but while running that app the phone freezed again but this time the screen turned purple/pink and it did not recover from the freeze after several hours until I finally removed the battery. The purple/pink turned into purple/pink with black lines and after removing the battery I could not power on the phone.
In all desperation I started trying out different "SDS-safe" custom kernels, ROMs and bootloaders (all flashed using Odin on my laptop) but the problem did not go away. In fact, I discovered a very strange correlation between the time that I leave the battery out the phone and the time it takes before the purple/pink freeze occurs again.
If I wait half an hour, put the battery back in the phone and boot it (in whichever mode) it would freeze/flicker/die after about 20 seconds. If I would wait several hours, put the battery back in the phone and boot it it would freeze/flicker/die after a solid 1 or 2 minutes.
Whether the phone is connected to the laptop or not makes no difference. I also tried with a different battery but the same behavior occurs.
After waiting a solid day, in still in act of desperation, I decided to flash the leaked 4.2.2 (I9300XXUFME7) official ROM. But even after a factory reset and wiping of cache I found that the problem still remained.
Now I believe I've tried almost everything I've found on these forums I'm not sure what I can still do. It seems it's not battery, ROM, kernel or bootloader related and it also does not seem a case of Sudden Death (I never heard mention of the purple/pink flickering, and it also never snaps out of the freeze; also the strange correlation between battery out of the phone and time before it freezes is something I haven't read about).
From all the research I've done I've not encountered anyone with the same symptoms (does not wake out of freeze, purple/pink lines appear on screen when freeze starts and keep flickering for hours, there seems to be a correlation between the time the battery is out of the phone and how long I have before it freezes again when I turn it on) and I'm running out of ideas.
I believe it is hardware related (but not a screen issue) rather than software related because the USB connection with the laptop disconnects when it freezes, purple/pink flickering and no recovery; but I have no idea what options I still have.
Before I give up on the phone does anyone have any recommendations of what I can try before sending it to a Samsung repair center?
Attached are 4 pictures to show the typical process after waiting ~4 hours and powering on the phone:
Phone boots OK
The phone freezes and a purple/pink overlay appears
More and more flickering making the screen turn more and more purple/pink
The screen seems to be divided in 4-5 parts
Everything is pink and black lines start to appear
Thank you for your time.
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Random Crashing
I am experiencing random crashes where the phone stops and the LED flashes a few times before rebooting. At first I thought it was overheating, as the phone was quite warm the first few times, but it has just done it when cold. It has happened mostly whilst in the play store. It's crashed about 15 times in 4 hours.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is there anyway to access the logs without root?
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This must just be a dud device. I did a factory reset last night and it crashed rebooting. Will take back to shop and hopefully exchange for a new one.
Did u tried to repair it via PC Companion?
It comes from a bad battery voltage. I had One m7 and after 1 year this problem begin. They change the battery and battery conector and it comes to work good.
This happened after 5 minutes, it's been sent back to the shop now for repair / replacement. Shame, as it was a nice phone when it wasn't crashing!
I had kind of the same experience with my device I bought yesterday. Turned it on, worked for about half an hour before flashing the red LED a few times and shutting down. After that it turned on once again, booted halfway up, the red LED flashed again and it shut down again. Then it did not react to anything anymore.
Plugging it into the charger did not yield any reaction at all. Pressing On and the Vol+ button made it vibrate three times as its supposed to do, but afterwards even that did not work anymore. As a last resort I pressed the hard reset button in the SIM slot, which also made it vibrate three times without any other reaction.
So I concluded it was dead and returned it to the store this morning to get my money back. I think I will hold of of buying a replacement until all the errors that currently pop up are sorted out.
Also noteworthy is, that while booting up and in the time it was usable the screen had a red tint sometimes and touch was working rather flakily.
They sent me a brand new phone, so was def a dud. No crashes so far, finger crossed