Hi
Today I rebooted my Samsung Galaxy S 2 and for some reason it is not working anymore.
No idea why this has happened
I tried everything Recovery Mode - Cant get into
Download Mode I cant get into
Tried removing the battery then putting it back in still nothing at all
On the back I can feel the phone is getting warm but nothing on the screen
It was working fine yesterday and I havent done anything to the phone yesterday
Please help if you know anything?
Thanks
Sounds like a hardware fail. I hate to say it but it sounds like returning it is the option.
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Did you have any update fails recently? Update fails were the reason some Galaxy S phones would not turn on.
Hi
Thanks for the reply
No.
It has the latest software so there wasn't a need for update
It was working fine for the first hour this morning and then I rebooted my phone because it froze but now won't turn on at all.
Should of backed up my data!
The device gets warm but nothing on the screen tried everything that is available on this forum.
Do I have to pay for this if it's faulty I only had it about a month now I think?
When plugged in on the usb charger, if you toggle the volume rocker will the display turn on and show the battery level?
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I got the same problem, after rooting and trying to format my microSD maybe I 've choosen the wrong partition (mmcblk0p2). Is there a way back???
Pinkthesink said:
When plugged in on the usb charger, if you toggle the volume rocker will the display turn on and show the battery level?
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- There is nothing, no battery indication, everything is black
Any solution yet?
I ordered a JIG, however I don't know if it helps in case the bootloader is dead
fjosef871 said:
Hi
Today I rebooted my Samsung Galaxy S 2 and for some reason it is not working anymore.
No idea why this has happened
I tried everything Recovery Mode - Cant get into
Download Mode I cant get into
Tried removing the battery then putting it back in still nothing at all
On the back I can feel the phone is getting warm but nothing on the screen
It was working fine yesterday and I havent done anything to the phone yesterday
Please help if you know anything?
Thanks
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Were you overclocking?If yes,how much?Maybe you fried something.
Also,if yes,I'm reading about the state of my phone a month from now!
Not sure what's going on there. did u do any recent 3rd party software downloads? I'd return n get a replacement
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whmcal said:
Not sure what's going on there. did u do any recent 3rd party software downloads? I'd return n get a replacement
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First I'll try a JIG - if it arrives on time... (desperately need the phone in 5 days)
fjosef871: have you tried a JIG to get into download mode?
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Hello
Yesterday, I left my Galaxy S2 for 5 minute only, when I came the screen lights did not work, but I can hear sounds and I can received calls, sms, whatsapp messages ...
I tried to restart may times and replace the battery but still I cant see any thing on the screen. Just I can hear sounds. When I try to touch the black screen I found it worked.
Can any one help me :crying:
ma4ja said:
Hello
Yesterday, I left my Galaxy S2 for 5 minute only, when I came the screen lights did not work, but I can hear sounds and I can received calls, sms, whatsapp messages ...
I tried to restart may times and replace the battery but still I cant see any thing on the screen. Just I can hear sounds. When I try to touch the black screen I found it worked.
Can any one help me :crying:
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Is there any sign of life in the screen when you reboot the phone?
Do you see the Samsung logo when your phone is starting up?
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ma4ja said:
Hello
Yesterday, I left my Galaxy S2 for 5 minute only, when I came the screen lights did not work, but I can hear sounds and I can received calls, sms, whatsapp messages ...
I tried to restart may times and replace the battery but still I cant see any thing on the screen. Just I can hear sounds. When I try to touch the black screen I found it worked.
Can any one help me :crying:
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Jokesy said:
Is there any sign of life in the screen when you reboot the phone?
Do you see the Samsung logo when your phone is starting up?
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Any chance you installed Chainfire3D or any other third party GUI/GPU apps??
I've had this problem when using CF3D and just reflashed ROM...
Could try fix permissions in recovery?
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Jokesy said:
Is there any sign of life in the screen when you reboot the phone?
Do you see the Samsung logo when your phone is starting up?
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There is No samsung logo or battery charging. Just sound of the boot animation and other process sounds like calling , sms and whatsapp notification.
Orkane1989 said:
Any chance you installed Chainfire3D or any other third party GUI/GPU apps??
I've had this problem when using CF3D and just reflashed ROM...
Could try fix permissions in recovery?
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No friend, I did not install any thing for more than a week except whatsapp up date three days a go.
I re-falshed the official IC room but nothing changed.
ma4ja said:
No friend, I did not install any thing for more than a week except whatsapp up date three days a go.
I re-falshed the official IC room but nothing changed.
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Can you enter recovery? If not it may be hardware related
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ma4ja said:
There is No samsung logo or battery charging. Just sound of the boot animation and other process sounds like calling , sms and whatsapp notification.
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I think it's hardware issue. Send it to repair center if you still have a valid warranty
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Jokesy said:
I think it's hardware issue. Send it to repair center if you still have a valid warranty
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+1
If no warranty prepare to spend some moneys
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Any news on this? I have exactly the same problem. :crying:
Diggensag said:
Any news on this? I have exactly the same problem. :crying:
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can you enter download/recovery mode ? if you can, flash a stock firmware through odin and see what happens
Poroto said:
can you enter download/recovery mode ? if you can, flash a stock firmware through odin and see what happens
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I am trying this right now. I don´t think it will help, but it´s my last hope. I believe i have some hardware error.
Anyone have any luck?
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Anyone have any luck?
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I've got the same problem too. I managed to get the phone into download mode (the screen didn't show a thing, but Odin recognized it as "ADDED"). Flahsed an official ICS ROM, but the screen keeps black, but the initialization sound can be heard, and the phone still rings when receiving a call!
Dead hardware...I supose...
ov3r said:
I've got the same problem too. I managed to get the phone into download mode (the screen didn't show a thing, but Odin recognized it as "ADDED"). Flahsed an official ICS ROM, but the screen keeps black, but the initialization sound can be heard, and the phone still rings when receiving a call!
Dead hardware...I supose...
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I have the same problem as you, but this is something I found out yesterday:
If you go to a dark room, and you turn on your S2, you can see some sort of.. light black/grayish pixel spots over your screen. It is pretty hard to see, that's why you need to be in a dark room.
Did anyone else notice this, or am I the only one?
GameShine said:
I have the same problem as you, but this is something I found out yesterday:
If you go to a dark room, and you turn on your S2, you can see some sort of.. light black/grayish pixel spots over your screen. It is pretty hard to see, that's why you need to be in a dark room.
Did anyone else notice this, or am I the only one?
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Hi I noticed it too, what I also noticed is that sometimes when using the face unlock on "waking" the phone up with the power key worked, I'm hoping it is not a hardware issue because it's intermittent.
Hi all.
I have this same problem with my screen on sgs2 . Also can see screen in darkness. Sound and phone works fine.
After opening up, came up with this problem
I opened up the back of the phone, to clean off some lint between the camera lens, and the glass on the outside, after closing it, This problem occurred.
The thing is, the touch screen works fine. I can navigate through the phone (using another Galaxy S2 to guide me of course), and everything. I can turn it off and on, etc.
So, this may be a hardware issue, but can someone chime in and let us know the specific hardware issue that may be in play here?
I'm having the same problem. I'm repairing a water damaged phone, and after the cleaning, it would hang on the galaxy S2 logo. I got it into download mode, and left it that way while I was Dling the proper Odin files, but when I came back 15 minutes later, it was a black screen. I finally realized it was still working, and navigated into download mode by memory, and successfully flashed the firmware. But now the screen that was working, refuses to turn on, although the capacitive lights do, and the phone is seemingly working normally.
It seems like it has to be something simple, the LCD shouldn't just die altogether for no reason. I'll keep messing around, and if I figure anything out, I'll report back. Or maybe someone else figures it out, and I can benefit!
As an update, I plugged the non working screen into a working S2, and it showed the Samsung logo on boot up. Then it went black again, but it can still show images, and did it multiple times. So the LCD works, but something is messing it up.
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Hey guys!
I have the same problem... does anybody have an idea what's happening to our phones?
Not to beat a dead horse but I am trying to recover pictures from my sisters phone. I plugged in a working screen, get the Samsung logo on boot then a low lit black screen however the boot sound still plays, all buttons on the bottom light up and give heptic feedback and so on. I don't have any lcd lights though... Lastly when I have the phone off and plug into the wall I do get the battery charge symbol flash on the screen but then goes back to a black screen and the battery still charges. I plug the phone into a computer and can see it connected although cant get kies to work with it... Any updates from anyone else or ideas? This phone has pictures of her daughter that passed away and are irreplaceable. I am willing to try anything so she can hold onto those memories
simonbarsinistr said:
As an update, I plugged the non working screen into a working S2, and it showed the Samsung logo on boot up. Then it went black again, but it can still show images, and did it multiple times. So the LCD works, but something is messing it up.
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Hey, I now have my Galaxy around a year and three months and two weeks ago I decided to root my phone. I now have the cyanogenmod 9 ROM on my phone and it did the job. A week ago my phone freezed at random moments, and it responded to nothing so I took the battery out every time and everytime it worked fine again. But today when I was at school and put my phone in my pocket (I don't remember if I turned it off) when I took it out of my pocket again it didn't respond to anything. So now I just have a black screen and I can't get my phone to boot up in recovery mode, download mode or just normal. I already have used the battery of my mom's galaxy (Btw they're both from t-mobile but in Holland) but still no response. My battery works fine in her phone, so I don't think it is a problem with the battery. What can I do???
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Hey, I now have my Galaxy around a year and three months and two weeks ago I decided to root my phone. I now have the cyanogenmod 9 ROM on my phone and it did the job. A week ago my phone freezed at random moments, and it responded to nothing so I took the battery out every time and everytime it worked fine again. But today when I was at school and put my phone in my pocket (I don't remember if I turned it off) when I took it out of my pocket again it didn't respond to anything. So now I just have a black screen and I can't get my phone to boot up in recovery mode, download mode or just normal. I already have used the battery of my mom's galaxy (Btw they're both from t-mobile) but still no response. My battery works fine in her phone, so I don't think it is a problem with the battery. What can I do???
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Try using a USB Jig see if that works? If you don't have one there dirt cheap off eBay, you make your own or try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869203
Adarzannh said:
Try using a USB Jig see if that works? If you don't have one there dirt cheap off eBay, you make your own or try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869203
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Okay, but I thought (?) that you then need to set the phone to download mode and I can't get it to do anything... Do you know another store to buy a USB Jig because in the Netherlands you don't have ebay?
Do you look in that thread ?
You can borrow from your country and city(if there is)
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Adarzannh said:
Try using a USB Jig see if that works? If you don't have one there dirt cheap off eBay, you make your own or try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1869203
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Paulius7 said:
Do you look in that thread ?
You can borrow from your country and city(if there is)
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I live in Haarlem so no, but maybe I can borrow it from someone in Amsterdam that is like small 30 min with the train. But. just to be sure, is there a chance that a USB JIG will fix the problem, if I push the power button of the Galaxy nothing happens...
USB jig is go to download mode and then you can flash stock Rom.
You don't need to do nothing when you plug in USB jig.
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Paulius7 said:
USB jig is go to download mode and then you can flash stock Rom.
You don't need to do nothing when you plug in USB jig.
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Okay thanks I saw some youtube vids but it looked their android phones did at least boot up and then got stuck or things like that.
I have bought a USB Jig but it didn't work ( I put the battery out for ten seconds, put it back in and then plugged the USB Jig in). Is there something else I can do? Btw isn't it very strange that the phone worked for 2 weeks and just stopped (after sometimes random freezing in the last week)?
my samsung galaxy s II turns on and then it turns off and starts to vibrate while its off
and when i pull the battery and put it back in it turns on by itself and turns off again and vibrates?
what should i do?
its not rooted.
its been working fine until yesterday it started happening
allen4077 said:
my samsung galaxy s II wont turn on, and vibrates when its off?
what should i do?
its not rooted.
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You should give a more clear explanation than this to let people help you
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Donnie Sins said:
You should give a more clear explanation than this to let people help you
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I have had a similar problem on a Nokia phone. What I did was switched it off, charged it(from a company charger) , kept it off for some time with battery removed and later turned it on, and presto everything normal.
I don't know what could have caused it or your problem, but if you could give more info like whether you did something like installing an app or something we could recommend things like a factory reset from the recovery menu, or a cache/dalvik wipe and a reboot (which I would recommend to make sure it ain't software related)
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allen4077 said:
my samsung galaxy s II turns on and then it turns off and starts to vibrate while its off
and when i pull the battery and put it back in it turns on by itself and turns off again and vibrates?
what should i do?
its not rooted.
its been working fine until yesterday it started happening
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king_below_my_lord said:
I have had a similar problem on a Nokia phone. What I did was switched it off, charged it(from a company charger) , kept it off for some time with battery removed and later turned it on, and presto everything normal.
I don't know what could have caused it or your problem, but if you could give more info like whether you did something like installing an app or something we could recommend things like a factory reset from the recovery menu, or a cache/dalvik wipe and a reboot (which I would recommend to make sure it ain't software related)
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it starts to vibrate jus with the charger
allen4077 said:
it starts to vibrate jus with the charger
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Remove the battery and switch it on after a couple of hours, and test whether your battery is working fine with an other phone.
After which if the problem still persist :
Try to turn it on in recovery or download mode.... If it again persist its time to send it for repair. If you can access download mode flash a rom and it might correct the problem.
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I had a very similar with my Motorola Gleam which I solved by reinstalling the Motorola drivers, why don't you try that.
So I got my phone yesterday. It was running on 4.1.1 iirc(not sure, it was a version of JB though), device told me it needed an update but I didn't have the time to update.
Now today, as I'm returning home I'm playing a game when the phone gets really hot. Now I don't mean normal warm, almost unbearable to touch the bottom third of the phone for longer than a couple of seconds.
I closed all the apps and let the phone rest to cool down. Couple minutes later I want to turn the screen on to check the time and it just doesn't respond. I remove the battery, try turning it back on, no response.
I tried charging it, thinking the battery might have suddenly died(even though it was at 20%) but the red charging light doesn't even show up. I'm not sure whether it's the sudden death issue or something else.
Will I be able to fix this by myself, or will I have to get the phone to a service center? I just got it so naturally I don't want to lose it, but I've read that even a usb jib won't get a device like this in download mode.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Phone is normal international version, I didn't root, using stock rom. Basically I didn't do anything except install apps and set up some accounts. The phone doesn't react to the vol down+menu+power combination, no matter in which order I hold the buttons.
Sudden death, Samsung will change the motherboard for free
Thanks. Any idea on how long it might take to get the phone back? Will I have to bring it to the store where I got it(not a Samsung service center) or send it to Samsung?
Take it to store. The repair should last a few weeks or so.
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UrbanDrawer said:
Take it to store. The repair should last a few weeks or so.
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Oh dear god.
Biglia05 said:
Oh dear god.
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If you only got it yesterday demand a replacement.
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corrsea said:
If you only got it yesterday demand a replacement.
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Cheers, will do that tomorrow.
Hello,
I was using Note 1 i717R on stock Rogers firmware and my phone suddenly turned off...
Now the only thing it can do is keep vibrating like its turning on!!!
But it doesn't show anything at all on the screen, not even the samsung logo!!
I tried going into custom recovery/download mode but NO LUCK!!
The phone just keeps vibrating!! The vibration only stops if we take the battery out!
Any solutions? Or does anyone have any idea as to what could be the problem!!!
PLEASE HELP!!
Any help is appreciated...
Have you tried removing the battery,let it sit for a bit and put it back in. Then try going into recovery mode.
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iThrive said:
Have you tried removing the battery,let it sit for a bit and put it back in. Then try going into recovery mode.
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Yea, I tried it.. As soon as I put the battery back in, it starts vibrating. It's like its trying to turn on but it doesn't!!
As this point, I don't know what to do anymore..
roni2915 said:
Hello,
I was using Note 1 i717R on stock Rogers firmware and my phone suddenly turned off...
Now the only thing it can do is keep vibrating like its turning on!!!
But it doesn't show anything at all on the screen, not even the samsung logo!!
I tried going into custom recovery/download mode but NO LUCK!!
The phone just keeps vibrating!! The vibration only stops if we take the battery out!
Any solutions? Or does anyone have any idea as to what could be the problem!!!
PLEASE HELP!!
Any help is appreciated...
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Could it be the dreaded power button stuck?
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roni2915 said:
Yea, I tried it.. As soon as I put the battery back in, it starts vibrating. It's like its trying to turn on but it doesn't!!
As this point, I don't know what to do anymore..
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Try think youtube link. It may help you but make sure you pay very close attention to the fact that this method will end up erasing EVERYTHING from your phone so you better back up what you want (or first remove you external SD card etc).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em5HoFWkQXo
If that side doesn't help, I'm sure a good search for "re-setting Galaxy Note i717" on YouTube or Google should find you something to help you out.
captemo said:
Could it be the dreaded power button stuck?
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That possibly seems like the issue.... hopefully it is that, Because other than that, I have no idea what could go wrong as it was all of a sudden!
iThrive said:
Try think youtube link. It may help you but make sure you pay very close attention to the fact that this method will end up erasing EVERYTHING from your phone so you better back up what you want (or first remove you external SD card etc).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em5HoFWkQXo
If that side doesn't help, I'm sure a good search for "re-setting Galaxy Note i717" on YouTube or Google should find you something to help you out.
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The thing is I cannot see anything on the screen. It stays black and the phone keeps vibrating as it tries to turn on but it doesnt work!!!
I cannot go into recovery, nor the phone boots even though i charged the battery externally!
roni2915 said:
The thing is I cannot see anything on the screen. It stays black and the phone keeps vibrating as it tries to turn on but it doesnt work!!!
I cannot go into recovery, nor the phone boots even though i charged the battery externally!
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Mehn I know somebody having this same problem even going in to download mode and flash stock firmware thru odin still no go....
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