Hi, It's only been a day since I got my new i9100 and I've already managed to stuff it up and get out of my depth. I'd be grateful for any help or advice. I've done many searches and not found anyone with a similar problem.
Basically my problem is that my phone has corrupted firmware and whenever I connect the phone to power it goes into the mode with the little symbols showing a phone connected to a computer (I'll call that emergency mode). I know I can recover it from that mode with Kies, Odin, or Heimdall, but unfortunately it turns off whenever I disconnect it from power (apparently both my computers' USB power isn't enough to keep it on). I've left it connected to power overnight to charge (in emergency mode) but the same thing happens. I don't know of a way of connecting power without it entering emergency mode, in case that might help the battery to charge (assuming that's the problem). I am fairly sure the battery is flat, because if I put the contacts on my tongue I do not feel any tingling sensation as I usually do with a charged battery.
At this point my only idea is to splice 2 USB cables so that I can use mains power and connect it to a computer at the same time. I'd obviously prefer not to resort to that. Any Ideas?
What I did before, details:
I have an unbranded version of the i9100 sold by mobicity in Australia, no network locks or anything. First thing I did was to install Samsung Kies on my computer and check for firmware updates (It was originally running Android 2.3.3, I don't remember the build numbers). Kies told me that an update was available, so I told it do do its thing.
On the first attempt the phone rebooted into download mode and then Kies stopped responding at 0% and eventually said the update had failed. I eventually pulled the battery and when I put it back in the phone booted back into its stock firmware - no damage, but no update.
On the second attempt it booted into download mode got to 8% and stayed there for about half an hour. At this point I had to leave it, and when I got back the bar was on 12% and it said it had failed. After power cycling it was in emergency mode, which is as far as I got.
My previous phone is a Blade and I've flashed it to oblivion and recovered from all sorts of problems, but I've never had one like this before. Apologies if this information is already somewhere else, I did make an effort to find it.
What was your battery percentage before the flash, a full update usually takes about 5 to 6 minutes, if your battery is too low, it may not go through. Also you should get rid of Kies or at least make sure it is not running at all while you are using Odin, Odin should show a yellow block once it has detected your device in download mode, but Kies running at the same time can cause issues
Also, you should try to charge that battery if you are of the opinion that it is running low on juice, I don't have the expertise, but a simple test is to charge the device while it is powered off as I do not think the phone charges in Download mode, once it is charging, you should see a large battery icon with some dots above it that indicates it is charging, if you don't see that, it probably isn't charging, maybe because the firmware flash failed, I really don't have the expertise to say for sure, if the battery isn't charging, then you should buy an external charger, unless you believe yourself competent enough to do it by splicing wires.....
Also, you should read this thread HERE there is guide on flashing official firmwares among other things, have a read, charge your battery and all should be well
This thread HERE may also help
There was plenty to do the flash (about 50%). I managed to solve the problem by borrowing a charged battery from my rather amused friend who also has an s2 and following the instructions in that thread for recovering from a soft-brick (My battery was indeed flat). I guess now I won't have any illusions that using Kies is safer than anything else...
Thanks for your advice anyway.
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Hi All,
Today when I unpluged my phone from charger I have noticed that I got USB symbol in notification bar, after checking what it is it turned out to be MTP connection but phone was not connected to anything. Next I took the battery out to reboot it and then I got empty battery sign with thermometer warning next to it!?! After few minutes phone booted in safe mode so I took the battery out again but this time for about 10 minutes. It is working fine since but Im worried that there might be something wrong with it. What do you think guys? Have someone had something like that?
Hey,
I had exactly the same thing happen today, tried everything I could think of, factory resets, formatting, cache wiping, tried reflashing multiple times with root and without root, XXKG2, XXKG1, KE7 and back to branded stock firmware. I also used a counter reset jig just in case that had any effect. Anyway, I ended up calling my provider and they suggested it was a hardware fault rather than software or settings and they are sending me a new one tomorrow.
I could only find one thread about a similar issue relating to the Galaxy S though I can't "refind" it, but basically there were a number of posters there with very similar issues and some of them had success cleaning the connectors in the port of the phone. I didn't really fancy trying this and breaking the connector or voiding my warranty and so I went with the easy option.
Hope that helps and hope you get it sorted easily!
Mark
Hi .. I have experienced more or less the same issue: mine was unplaged from charger and switched in "Driving Mode" showing a steering wheel in notification area. That happened many times so I just rebooted the phone and I got the empty battery sign with thermometer warning next to it me too!
Now usb connection is not working anymore I'm still able to charge the phone even flash is working using Odin, but no data connection is detected by any pc with any usb cable!
I've flashed the stock rom and tryed many cooked rom, but usb data is dead!
I think I have to return it on a service center!
Hope that is not your case!
Bye
Looks like it's not a one off then...one thing I would add, just in case anyone hasn't noticed, is that you can still use the phone as by plugging it in to charge then it does boot up properly. In addition, you can also still get into recovery and download via the Home+Volume key+power button methods so you can revert to stock rom etc. It's a bit fiddly to do this though as the phone seems to think its on charge and so you have to time the holding/pressing just right to beat the green battery and temperature warning sign...but at least we can do backups of all our data/apps.
I really do think it might be fixable with a bit of a pointy cleaning tool and maybe some isopropanol...but as I said I didn't want the risk of breaking something further. Worth a try if your carrier isn't very good at replacing things though!
My sister has a Samsung Galaxy y phone running Gingerbread 2.3.3 (not rooted). She plugged the phone after it ran out of charge and saw this screen (pic attached) with the battery icon empty and a blue triangle with a crossed out battery symbol inside it. The phone would not power up
We tried everything : checked charger, plug points, usb charging, taking out battery and cleaning contacts but everything is fine.
Please help if anyone knows what this is
NOt sure if it will help anymore but this happened to me, I couldn't figure it out. TO make a long story short. I got another battery at full charge, put phone into download mode and used Odin application on my PC to get back to stock . Phone booted and worked fine with charging and all. It might be the port but i'm not sure
Only when my phone goes under 50 percent does it not charge now. Its odd. I am getting a replacement phone soon.
Edit- I'm using an At&t galaxy note.
What solved the problem
Well, my sister just took the phone to the service centre coz it was within warranty. Those guys gave it back to her with a new battery and some patches installed...they were not prepared to say which . Anyway, now her phone is fine. Seems to be something exclusive with samsung devices.
Battery issue
I had the same issue with my unrooted HTC Evo 4g a while back, when the charger was plugged in it would charge for about a minute then I would have a blue triangle on my battery icon. I replaced the battery and all was right again hope this helps anyone else who reads this even though it sounds like your sister's issue is resolved.
Okay so I know it was the phone that got messed up. I had originally been rooted with a custom rom and the issue occurred randomly. Come to find out, after I odin'ed back to stock with a spare battery at 100 percent the phone started working normally but... Once the phone got back below 20 percent or so it started not charging. It was so odd. Basically it wasn't the rom or the battery. I used 2 seperate batteries. It was definitely the port or the phone's internal memory got corrupted. It was weird and maybe it will never be pin pointed what the issue was but in the end if the phone went below 50-20 percent it wouldn't charge. Note: If the phone was put into download mode, I could leave it on the charger and it would charge no matter what, so technically I could have lived with the phone only charging in download mode until I got it over 50 percent, then I could of charged it in the car or other chargers.
I went back to the store once I Odined back to stock and they just gave me a new phone, thanks to Warranties. If anyone gets stuck with your phone being rooted and rom'ed, just go to download/ODIN mode and charge your phone up until you can odin it back to stock, then take it back to the store for a replacement if your within warranty.
Problem solved. Just flash it with odin
This problem can be solved by flashing with an odin a firmware with pit and bootloader. The tools are provided in the link. Download it and flash your phone.
download it from
d-h.st/PF5
Before flashing download the usb drivers and install it.
mediafire.com/download/7srv709j7nkivj0/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
(copy and paste link in your browser)
press thanks if i helped
Hi!
I know that are simillar threads about this, but none of them have the answer to my problem. I read them all.
As many others, my Galaxy S 2 started to give that error after the upgrade to ICS (in my case, I did it because my phone sent me the "alert" directly, not because I tried to upgrade it through Odin or similar).
My problem now is that the phone is not even detected by my computer in Download Mode, If I remove the battery for 10 minutes and add it again, it does show like if the battery ran out of charge and does not start, if I plug it to the wall charger then show as charging and then can start it, but the "charging suspended voltage too high" message show every 20 seconds.
I tried to clean the usb with a toothbrush, tried also with the "knife method" but nothing of that helps. I would like to even downgrade the OS to a 3.x version, but can't make the computer recognize the phone in Download Mode. Any help would be appreciated.
I drove myself mad chasing this one a couple of weeks ago, it does indeed seem to be a problem with the connection between the USB plug and the phones mainboard.
I did find a post by a Samsung engineer in which he claimed it was a common problem and that he was seeing 3 or 4 a day.
I was lucky in that mine was solved by gently pushing the male internal connector gently forwards (upwards if the phone is on its back)
If you think logically, a usb/mainboard connection problem does make sense, in as much as there are so many differing symptoms and the claimed successes by cleaning, I would guess in these instances, the cleaning has in fact, simply moved the connector back into position.
This is a pretty poor show for Sammy, there seem to be more and more S2's failing in this way as time goes on, my own phone has only ever been charged in the Samsung dock, and still fell foul of it!
I would give repositioning the connector another try, pull the battery and use a wooden toothpick or similar, I used a fruit knife, but wouldn't recommend it. If you cant get it back in shape, I'm afraid you will have to send it back to Samsung
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JorgeC said:
Hi!
I know that are simillar threads about this, but none of them have the answer to my problem. I read them all.
As many others, my Galaxy S 2 started to give that error after the upgrade to ICS (in my case, I did it because my phone sent me the "alert" directly, not because I tried to upgrade it through Odin or similar).
My problem now is that the phone is not even detected by my computer in Download Mode, If I remove the battery for 10 minutes and add it again, it does show like if the battery ran out of charge and does not start, if I plug it to the wall charger then show as charging and then can start it, but the "charging suspended voltage too high" message show every 20 seconds.
I tried to clean the usb with a toothbrush, tried also with the "knife method" but nothing of that helps. I would like to even downgrade the OS to a 3.x version, but can't make the computer recognize the phone in Download Mode. Any help would be appreciated.
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1. if you have warranty and not used odin, better take it to the samsung service center.
or
2. try to get a full charge battery from your friend and finish your job in dwnl mode using odin
or
3. try usb jig method to reset and start your mobile in recovery/dwnl mode.. you can search the forum on this and there are lots of posts reg this.
explains the randomness
If the connector moves its presumably broken connection with motherboard. Wonder if a teeny drop of superglue.....
Its odd how its become a feature after ICS but I suppose if its an age/ wear and tear thing that works too. Mine is drvibg me nuts too
Not solved with Stock ROM
Im also having the same problem . Not able to fix it. But if u want to connect to PC , just connect ur phone to PC and restart the phone. Then the drivers will installed and it will detected . Now u can flash it using ODIN . I tried updaing through the Kies with latest version of ICS patch , now the warning mesasge is not coming , but the battery icon blinks every second and if i check the status it shows NOT CHARGING instead of DISCHARGING
Hey guys,
unfortunately my 3-year old Razr died the other day. Battery has been an issue for the past few months where I had the battery completely drained 2 times but always got the device back to work. This time it's different though.
I shut down the Phone at aprox. 20% Battery to safe it from low charge. I have NEVER flashed a custom rom, the phone is purely stock. The phone wouldn't turn on the next time i tried. Initially , I had zero reaction. Then, I got at least the white LED when charging with the original adapter. Let it charge a few days. The white light would turn off after a few hours but the phone is still dead.
I replaced the battery with another (new) EB20 but still nothing. I bought a wall charger (1A) and still nothing. I even tried direct charging the battery for a few hours and still no effect. Also, every combination of Power+Volume buttons didnt work.
So i bought a factory cable but still didnt get any reaction. When hooked up to a computer via USB i have a "connecting" and "disconnecting" sound. Once the device was detected as OMAP 3340 but couldnt install it. The problem is that I dont even get the phone into fastboot mode.
On my research, I found these posts:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2055839
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2047750
I think this will be my last try and option, but i have no experience whatsoever with flashing and I find the description very hard to understand and follow. Is there maybe someone who can explain step by step what there is to install/do and in what order? This would be awesome.
Greets,
razore
Hi guys, I'm looking for some help for my girlfriends S3. I have experience flashing many different types of android phones but this one is turning out to be a real pickle. I'll give you all the whole story so you can understand.
A couple days ago she said her phone battery was dying at an alarming rate, she would unplug at 100% and almost 30mins later it would be at 65%. Obviously I suspected a wakelock and I was right, Android System (or one of the android things) did indeed keep her phone awake for about 8hrs (end of the day) Yesterday when she tried to charge the phone an error message saying that the phone or battery was to hot and charging was not possible so her battery died. I got a spare from my cousin but this one has been lying idle for about a year.
When I try charging the battery with the phone off it indicates that it is almost full, when I try to start the phone the samsung logo comes up and I can see her home screen for about a second and then the phone switches off. Keep in mind that I can not start the phone with just the battery in it, it must be plugged in.
Here is the kicker too, she knows nothing about rooting, flashing etc. but on her phone I did see as if someone tried to install root (I'm not sure which method it is but someone definitely tried, maybe one of her nephews) A while back the phone getting another wakelock and I did a regular system reset hoping that everything would be wiped. The root file/app was still on the phone :/
Fast forward to yesterday when I said I'll try actually flashing the phone with odin. The sticker on the back says i9300 but when I go into odin mode I see the phone is a T999 and that the counter is 3. I ignored this and proceeded to reflash the i9300 recovery but presto I can't get into recovery mode anymore. I did download the T999 recovery also and I will flash that today and see if it works. So a couple questions:
1) Is this phone a i9300 or a T999
2) Is something wrong with the phone, given that the other battery does not start the phone or is it that battery has a problem as well.
3) How is it that she knows nothing about flashing but the binary counter is on 3.
Any help will be appreciated guys. Today I'll go to the store and see if I can get another battery and if the phone would boot.
No ideas, same here. I'm going to change out the entire motherboard with another.
Interesting development, went to swap around boards and guess what, the i9300 is actually a T-999. The i9300 board does not fit into my girlfriends phone. I know this because my cousin does have an i9300 and his board cannot fit into my girls chassis, several soc's are not even in the same place. Just goes to show, be careful where you guys buy phones and other electronics from.