Had the tablet a week now and usually i hold the power button for like 1-2 secs and it powers on. Lately it somtimes does not come on. I keep trying and then it eventually powers up and i see the Samsung Galaxy tab logo. The battery has been about 30%-50% when this happens.
Anyone else experiencing this?
yes same here, had mine for a week now too from pc world. i think its a software issue as i have experimented with it a little and found that it tends yo happen when i power off with an application running. so far its only 'you tube' that ive isolated but there may be others. give it a go and see if it does the same for you.
to turn it back on keep the power button and the volume down button pressed for about 10seconds and it should switch on without any problems.... many thanks to the internet forums for teaching me that one.
asifito said:
yes same here, had mine for a week now too from pc world. i think its a software issue as i have experimented with it a little and found that it tends yo happen when i power off with an application running. so far its only 'you tube' that ive isolated but there may be others. give it a go and see if it does the same for you.
to turn it back on keep the power button and the volume down button pressed for about 10seconds and it should switch on without any problems.... many thanks to the internet forums for teaching me that one.
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yea mine also is from PC world. nice one dude i will try that. cheers
otherwise very happy with the GT!
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I faced the same problem lately, I will try the solution if the problem happened again
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hey guys. I have been lookin at threads about my issue and cannot find any answers. I wanted to try the demo of gingerbread in the dev section and when i tried entering download mode nothing would work. I don't know what is wrong. I don't think i should have tried it. Is therre anything i can do? BTW the phone boots up perfectly, if that helps.
I'm very sorry issue solved please close. I do think i should stick to my i4 tho
you mind telling us what you did to solve the problem? you know just in case this happens to anyone else they can look here
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you mind telling us what you did to solve the problem? you know just in case this happens to anyone else they can look here
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Oh yes I am sorry. So the phone wouldn't get into download mode and I was getting frustrated. I am quite familiar with these things. I usually power the phone off. Plug it into the computer and hold the the power button with the two volume buttons. That wouldn't work so i finally tried this. I took my battery out. I then put the charger in ONLY holding the two volume buttons and it finally worked.
Lately my tab has been turning off by itself and it takes me a long time to turn it back on by holding the power button. Has a fix been found for this problem yet? I'm a little worried that one day the thing won't turn on again. Sometimes the tab is charged when it turns off, and I'm never using the thing when it does, so battery isn't really the issue. Any suggestions?
Gja88 said:
Lately my tab has been turning off by itself and it takes me a long time to turn it back on by holding the power button. Has a fix been found for this problem yet? I'm a little worried that one day the thing won't turn on again. Sometimes the tab is charged when it turns off, and I'm never using the thing when it does, so battery isn't really the issue. Any suggestions?
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Are you rooted? Running a custom ROM? Running any extra mods at all?
No, I'm fully stock,never been rooted. Willing to root if the problem can be fixed though through a rom or something
i've made good strides in combating this.
But, you must have CWM installed in order to flash.
When you are ready to do this, then head over to the dev section, kernel thread.
In the meantime, set wifi to never sleep, and see if that cures some of it.
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To be honest if you have a completely stock machine I would call samsung and get them to check it, it sounds faulty. I work for a large computer retailler and haven't seen a single one behaving like yours out of hundreds.
Brian
Brian-UK said:
To be honest if you have a completely stock machine I would call samsung and get them to check it, it sounds faulty. I work for a large computer retailler and haven't seen a single one behaving like yours out of hundreds.
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Mine also does and I have seen posts in other forums of others complaining of smae thing.
Ian
Hey guys i have the samsung galaxy tablet 10.1 model gt-p7510ma and the screen wont turn on. One day i accidentally hit the power and the volume buttons and now this device's screen wont turn on! I am at a complete loss as to what could be wrong. i was told that i may have to flash it back to factory to get it to work but i cannot find any stock rom download links. i have never dropped this thing so i dont know why the screen would just go out.
Does anyone have any suggestions tips or things that i may try to get this thing back operational? Right now it is just a 500$ brick. Has anyone ever heard of this happening?
EDIT: when you hook tab up to computer it shows up as APX in device manager under unknown devices. I dont know if this helps but that a little more info.
Steve
have you tried charging it?
Apart from that I believe this is non-dev related, should go to Q&A section.
It might be that your device has hung. Press Power button and keep it pressed for 10seconds or something like that. And then try to turn it on again.
Sometimes it hangs like that. Especially if you are on some unstable custom rom.
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it is actually running the stock rom I never rooted it or anything like that. To the guy above, of course I tried charging it that didn't work. It doesn't even show that it is charging on the scree. I have pressed and held the power button trying to get it into bootloader mode, but that did nothing. Wonder why the computer is picking it up as APX. Wonder what that is? Thank for the suggestions so far!
If you are on stock and not even rooted, then just take it back to shop or service for warranty. You will get if fixed immediately or working back in a week. Better play safe.
In your case I would do so.
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black screen and apx on the computer usually means you're in the mode needed for nvflash.
i forget how to get out of that mode, but google nvflash and apx you should be able to get an answer.
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Hold the power button while holding one finger on the screen works everytime my locks up
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Hold the power button while holding one finger on the screen works everytime my locks up
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Ha!!!! worked thanx. Was sitting here trying to figure this out and Viola ur method worked right away.
I know this may be a day late and a dollar shoprt but i just wanted to let everyone know that i was able to fix the problem using the let the battery drain out and than power it on trick. I dont know how this guy put this device into APX mode but that is the only way i have found to get it out! Thanks for everyones help!
Hey guys,
I've been having this same problem the last 24 hrs or so now. I'm running custom rom Cynagoen mod ICS 4.03. This is apparently one of the more stable roms out there. Prior to this I ran an alpha stage jelly bean rom which ran just fine until last night. After leaving the screen off for an hour or so, the screen won't turn on after pressing the power button. I reboot every time and that seems to work. Is there something I need to do here? Should I look for another rom, maybe a 3.x? Thanks guys
AlphaJ1 said:
Hey guys,
I've been having this same problem the last 24 hrs or so now. I'm running custom rom Cynagoen mod ICS 4.03. This is apparently one of the more stable roms out there. Prior to this I ran an alpha stage jelly bean rom which ran just fine until last night. After leaving the screen off for an hour or so, the screen won't turn on after pressing the power button. I reboot every time and that seems to work. Is there something I need to do here? Should I look for another rom, maybe a 3.x? Thanks guys
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Maybe try upgrading your CM9 install. 4.0.4 is the latest flavor of ICS.
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Hey guys,
I've been having this same problem the last 24 hrs or so now. I'm running custom rom Cynagoen mod ICS 4.03. This is apparently one of the more stable roms out there. Prior to this I ran an alpha stage jelly bean rom which ran just fine until last night. After leaving the screen off for an hour or so, the screen won't turn on after pressing the power button. I reboot every time and that seems to work. Is there something I need to do here? Should I look for another rom, maybe a 3.x? Thanks guys
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You could try reading the entire thread. Hold the power button down while touching the screen. That fixes the SOD (Sleep of death).
My problem continues
i read all, 3 days reading and testing, and nothing new about my problem.
I have a problem with rebooting loop. (i cant touch correctly the power button, didnt work, also all the time is rebooting, or staying without screen light, i cant explain correctly!!)
I did all, back to stock, tried install many roms and kernels, but nothing works.
the best thing that i did to use it for few moments was.. use the swipe 2 wake, with AJK - using Siyah v.4.3.3 ICS over the SHOstock3.
The swipe 2 wake not works all the time, most of time the screen only wake up when i receive a income call.
But continues rebooting, most of times when i shake the phone.
Any idea for me?
Thank you
brubrazil said:
My problem continues
i read all, 3 days reading and testing, and nothing new about my problem.
I have a problem with rebooting loop. (i cant touch correctly the power button, didnt work, also all the time is rebooting, or staying without screen light, i cant explain correctly!!)
I did all, back to stock, tried install many roms and kernels, but nothing works.
the best thing that i did to use it for few moments was.. use the swipe 2 wake, with AJK - using Siyah v.4.3.3 ICS over the SHOstock3.
The swipe 2 wake not works all the time, most of time the screen only wake up when i receive a income call.
But continues rebooting, most of times when i shake the phone.
Any idea for me?
Thank you
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I got a great idea.....
STOP MAKING NEW THREADS FOR THE SAME PROBLEM!!
Sent from my SGH-I777 running AOKP
Here is an idea. Get a new phone, or your phone repaired. YOU HAVE A FAULTY POWER BUTTON. With all the reading and testing you have done would have thought you had that figured out. Quit making new threads about the same issue please. I am guessing we won't be seeing too much more of you around here if you keep it up.
Good luck getting you power button fixed.
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Here is an idea. Get a new phone, or your phone repaired. YOU HAVE A FAULTY POWER BUTTON. With all the reading and testing you have done would have thought you had that figured out. Quit making new threads about the same issue please. I am guessing we won't be seeing too much more of you around here if you keep it up.
Good luck getting you power button fixed.
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It cant be the power button! its restarting without pressing the button!
brubrazil said:
It cant be the power button! its restarting without pressing the button!
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Dude. Exactly because your power button is defective! Was it really that hard to figure out? Just stop posting from now on before you make a fool of yourself.... Woops already did
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My Galaxy S III have few problems from which i am suffering everyday. My phone is not rooted and has official ROM and I am from Hyderabad India.
1. The volume down button work unexpectedly. Sometime it works sometimes it won't. Sometime while a single press it came down to 0. Even when i am not touching while i am in call or even not involved in anything i.e. idle the volume goes to level 1. Each time i try to increase the volume it again decreases to level 1. It is very irritating while in a call. Thought of going to a Service Center as it is within warranty but then i want to check if it is a hardware problem or any known software issue. I tried to find in many forums about this but no one has a concrete answer
2. The second problem is My phone always is entering Safe Mode. I am successful in bringing her out once or twice but 2 out of 3 time while i restart it is stuck in safe mode. I have tried each and everything suggested in forums to bring her out of safe mode but none works. Twice keeping the battery 30 mins out helped, but nothing is working this time though. I think it is probably after my last update on july 17 from Samsung not sure about that though. I tried uninstalling apps which might cause her to go in the safe mode in the first place but sadly no luck
Will appreciate if somebody can help me reg these 2 problems.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Dhruv
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Suggest you take the phone to a service centre
Might be water damage from the button side, my friend had a similar-ish problem, didn't cost anything under warranty though - service center is your best bet.
following with JJEgan, this is clearly a question ([Q]), so you should post it in the Q/A section, you should probably make a thread there next time
Sorry
Extremely Sorry, Didn't know about that. Actually it is my first post here..
Next time i shall ask questions there only. :good:
But any answer to the 2nd problem about Safe Mode? Just interested to know the reason behind such behavior.
same problem
dhruba.work said:
My Galaxy S III have few problems from which i am suffering everyday. My phone is not rooted and has official ROM and I am from Hyderabad India.
1. The volume down button work unexpectedly. Sometime it works sometimes it won't. Sometime while a single press it came down to 0. Even when i am not touching while i am in call or even not involved in anything i.e. idle the volume goes to level 1. Each time i try to increase the volume it again decreases to level 1. It is very irritating while in a call. Thought of going to a Service Center as it is within warranty but then i want to check if it is a hardware problem or any known software issue. I tried to find in many forums about this but no one has a concrete answer
2. The second problem is My phone always is entering Safe Mode. I am successful in bringing her out once or twice but 2 out of 3 time while i restart it is stuck in safe mode. I have tried each and everything suggested in forums to bring her out of safe mode but none works. Twice keeping the battery 30 mins out helped, but nothing is working this time though. I think it is probably after my last update on july 17 from Samsung not sure about that though. I tried uninstalling apps which might cause her to go in the safe mode in the first place but sadly no luck
Will appreciate if somebody can help me reg these 2 problems.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Dhruv
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Hi guy,I using I9300, Rom stock 4.0.4, no root, and i haved the problem like you after I installed some apps such as : button savior, lock screen when rotate phone, flashlight. It automatically turn down the volume, I replaced the cable volume inside phone but it's still not working, Now I can press volume up but volume down (volume down died) and when I turn on the phone, flash turn on too (about 2,3 sec before it off automatically). I think my ROM was impacted by that apps and flash origin ROM can fix it, but a staff said that my main might had problem,and I had to replace the main. How do you think about it? Could we exchange the information by email,my email is [email protected] .Thank you. I hope you will tell me ,if you can fix it