My phone was in the middle of a restore when it dead and now I can't turn it on. When I remove the battery and plug in the charger the light turns on for a few seconds then goes away. Now my phone won't turn on. Any suggestions?
itzclockwork said:
My phone was in the middle of a restore when it dead and now I can't turn it on. When I remove the battery and plug in the charger the light turns on for a few seconds then goes away. Now my phone won't turn on. Any suggestions?
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Happened to me last night when our power went out
Just gotta use a external charger to charge the battery, I used an old thunderbolt
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But the problem is I was restoring a rom and now I think it won't load to it
itzclockwork said:
But the problem is I was restoring a rom and now I think it won't load to it
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No your underlying problem is the battery is dead, charge it up and boot into recovery and restore again
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Do you know if your battery was low when you were doing the restore? If so, search for "battery charge" or "battery charging" and you will get you several threads about phones not charging with different solutions in them.
Then if you get it charging and don't have a full ROM installed you might get stuck on the white HTC screen like I did when my phone stopped reading my external sd in the middle of a flash. If so, do a battery pull then boot into bootloader and start the restore over again in recovery.
EDIT: Clearly I need to type faster.... a whole conversation happened while I was posting this answer.
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I had Infinity Rom on it
It died the other night, and it's not the battery Im sure of it. I cant get it into and Recovery modes or Download mode, well I haven't tried Download mode I don't know how to.
If anyone can help me fix this with all the links necessary to fix it I would be so happy. I am very sad right now .
Thanks
So you can power up and boot into recovery? I assume clockworkmod? If you use just the power button to turn it on what do you get?
Stratejaket said:
So you can power up and boot into recovery? I assume clockworkmod? If you use just the power button to turn it on what do you get?
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I get nothing. Like the phone is completely dead.
could be hardware failure... You can try this..
Pull the battery out then reinstall (do not try to turn on)
plug in the phone overnight
then in the morning, try to turn on while still plugged in and see if it starts.
If not, you may have to bring it to verizon
That is a good idea, when you plug it in does it appear to take a charge?
yea pull the battery for a t least a minute. pop it back in, and plug it into a known working charger. wait a few minutes, when the battery is VERY dead, the charge light won't even come on. after about one minute, it'll start blinking. after it is done blinking and turns solid orange, you may boot the phone.
if you do not get a blinking or solid orange LED after 5 minutes, you indeed have a dead phone. I would go to verizon and try to pass it off as a bad battery, and ask if they can get a working battery to test. if it still fails to boot, then you will know.
i have yet to find a verizon tech willing to dig deeper on a non booting or boot looping phone to see if it was modded, usually playing dumb makes you seem less suspicious and incapable of modding. going in and saying "it was fine and running fast on a custom rom/kernel" is a dead giveaway for a warranty denial!
Hi all
My phone was shutting off instantly without any reason for couple of days and then I would turn it on. My battery was also acting weird. Sometimes when I turn it on it was showing 30% battery while before it was at 70%. Today, it turned off and wouldn't turn on. I tried Vol Up/Down+HOME+Power button and Home+Power button but it wouldn't turn on or go into recovery/download mode. When I put it on charge, charge symbol shows for a second and then it would turn off and then again on and off and continues forever.
Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.
Either your battery is not accepting charge or is not getting any charge.
If you know someone else with an S2, ask to borrow their battery to find out whether your phone will boot.
I've a suspicion that you're going to have to replace either the battery or the USB charger port.....or maybe even both.
But the first thing to find out is if the phone boots with a 'known good' battery.
my wife says I'm a phone geek....
I'd have to agree......
keithross39 said:
Either your battery is not accepting charge or is not getting any charge.
If you know someone else with an S2, ask to borrow their battery to find out whether your phone will boot.
I've a suspicion that you're going to have to replace either the battery or the USB charger port.....or maybe even both.
But the first thing to find out is if the phone boots with a 'known good' battery.
my wife says I'm a phone geek....
I'd have to agree......
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Thanks a lot buddy for your reply.
An hour ago I put the phone on charge for about 15 minutes and the battery charging symbol stabilized. Then I pressed Power button and phone booted and was working fine. Then just to check, I shut off and it won't start again and came back to the same old problem. I would definitely battery from same phone and will let you know about the updates.
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Its a very weird problem. I have put the battery of my brother's SGS2 in my phone and the problem is same. Then when I put my battery in my brother's mobile then that mobile shows the same problem. After switching batteries many time, my brother's SGS2 with its own battery would show the same problem. In other words that mobile was dead also. Then I plugged out the battery from the other mobile and left it out for some time and plugged in again and mobile was ok.
After that I didn't risk to switch batteries again. I have the feeling that problem is not at hardware end. For some reasons my mobile's software is corrupting batteries. I remember to have re-calibrated the battery couple of days ago with software named "battery recalibrate". I am lost at what the problem might be and what to do anymore.
Pls help.
Flash firmware with Odin that will rule out software problems. Flash say lsw and see if its the same.
andrewwright said:
Flash firmware with Odin that will rule out software problems. Flash say lsw and see if its the same.
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But I am unable to go in recovery/download mode and can't boot the device. How can I install firmware with odin.
ImranG2 said:
But I am unable to go in recovery/download mode and can't boot the device. How can I install firmware with odin.
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Thought you got it to boot?
andrewwright said:
Thought you got it to boot?
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Any idea/suggestion to boot the device.
Jig to force it to download mode
Just for the record. I discovered the solution to be ridiculously simple. Battery pins connection was loose and by just putting a foiled tissue paper at below corner of battery to strengthen connection of pins, all was back to normal. Ahh! it was such a relief.
Happy days glad you sorted it:thumbup:
I was bought a LGOG ATT model from US, it was working with full battery but suddenly in on condition, it goes blank and not able to on again.
when i insert power cable/charger cable it shows only stable red light (it is not flashing).
also i open the phone and removed the battery and then plug it with charger but still it shows stable red light (without battery).
as i m not able to switch on so not able to go in download mode or any thing else.
is it perm bricked???
arunkarnwal1981 said:
I was bought a LGOG ATT model from US, it was working with full battery but suddenly in on condition, it goes blank and not able to on again.
when i insert power cable/charger cable it shows only stable red light (it is not flashing).
also i open the phone and removed the battery and then plug it with charger but still it shows stable red light (without battery).
as i m not able to switch on so not able to go in download mode or any thing else.
is it perm bricked???
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I would do the battery remove again, leave it disconnected for at least 10 minutes. With no battery and no charger connected, press the power button for 10 seconds, then let it rest.
Make absolutely sure that you did not damage the connector for the battery to the motherboard. With no power cord, reconnect battery and try to boot. If a 10 minute battery pull doesn't work, it may indeed be bricked.
The phone can act very strange and then go completely normal forever also, some people have left it plugged in for hours with the red light and it magically began to work again. Best of luck.
[r.]GimP said:
I would do the battery remove again, leave it disconnected for at least 10 minutes. With no battery and no charger connected, press the power button for 10 seconds, then let it rest.
Make absolutely sure that you did not damage the connector for the battery to the motherboard. With no power cord, reconnect battery and try to boot. If a 10 minute battery pull doesn't work, it may indeed be bricked.
The phone can act very strange and then go completely normal forever also, some people have left it plugged in for hours with the red light and it magically began to work again. Best of luck.
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thanks for reply. i will sure do this.
[r.]GimP said:
I would do the battery remove again, leave it disconnected for at least 10 minutes. With no battery and no charger connected, press the power button for 10 seconds, then let it rest.
Make absolutely sure that you did not damage the connector for the battery to the motherboard. With no power cord, reconnect battery and try to boot. If a 10 minute battery pull doesn't work, it may indeed be bricked.
The phone can act very strange and then go completely normal forever also, some people have left it plugged in for hours with the red light and it magically began to work again. Best of luck.
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Thanks a lot for your great suggestion, now my LGOG is again in working order
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[r.]GimP said:
I would do the battery remove again, leave it disconnected for at least 10 minutes. With no battery and no charger connected, press the power button for 10 seconds, then let it rest.
Make absolutely sure that you did not damage the connector for the battery to the motherboard. With no power cord, reconnect battery and try to boot. If a 10 minute battery pull doesn't work, it may indeed be bricked.
The phone can act very strange and then go completely normal forever also, some people have left it plugged in for hours with the red light and it magically began to work again. Best of luck.
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one problem, after starting the phone, i was tried to LGNPST to restore it back ATT stock ICS but it stuck at 85% with error : faile to write partition 525312th sector. and now only able to go in download mode directly???
arunkarnwal1981 said:
one problem, after starting the phone, i was tried to LGNPST to restore it back ATT stock ICS but it stuck at 85% with error : faile to write partition 525312th sector. and now only able to go in download mode directly???
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I haven't used LGNPST but I understand that it does get stuck at 85%, from what I have read.
A lot of others on this forum have experience with flashing, try searching or asking someone. Glad your phone powers on again.
Same Problem
I know this thread is quite old but I didn't want to bother anyone by posting another thread about the exact same problem. Anyways, my phone is behaving in the exact same way as the OP's and I have tried the aforementioned fix to no avail. I know this is a bit of a toss up but does anybody have any other ideas?
The phone is unrooted. And as the title says, whenever I try to boot the phone it goes to the charging screen. The phone is unplugged, though.
Then the following happens: it loads the battery data, battery is shown how charged it is, the dots at the bottom turn on and off one after another, at the 3rd dot, the phone turns off. Repeat.
The only way of turning my phone on is trying to put the charger in and hope to god it recognizes it, really charging it and thus making me able to boot up. Or I've to push Volume Down + Home + Power and then cancel (making the phone restart itself), which does boot up the phone correctly for some reason.
I've turned battery percentage on in the statusbar at the top of the phone, and sometimes it keeps saying unplug the charger when at 100%, so I do and it keeps saying that for 15-30 minutes after. Then I try to restart the phone (not turn off and on) and then the battery dropped to 60-80%?
Finally, when the battery is "fully charged" the screen is flickering until I pull the charger out.
What I've tried so far: rebooting, turning it off and on, pulling the battery out and putting it back in, trying a different battery.
What I'm still planning on doing: Restocking the phone through Odin, or bring it to a repair service but I would try to hold off to that.
Has anyone experienced this before and how do I fix it?
Zyvron said:
The phone is unrooted. And as the title says, whenever I try to boot the phone it goes to the charging screen. The phone is unplugged, though.
Then the following happens: it loads the battery data, battery is shown how charged it is, the dots at the bottom turn on and off one after another, at the 3rd dot, the phone turns off. Repeat.
The only way of turning my phone on is trying to put the charger in and hope to god it recognizes it, really charging it and thus making me able to boot up. Or I've to push Volume Down + Home + Power and then cancel (making the phone restart itself), which does boot up the phone correctly for some reason.
I've turned battery percentage on in the statusbar at the top of the phone, and sometimes it keeps saying unplug the charger when at 100%, so I do and it keeps saying that for 15-30 minutes after. Then I try to restart the phone (not turn off and on) and then the battery dropped to 60-80%?
Finally, when the battery is "fully charged" the screen is flickering until I pull the charger out.
What I've tried so far: rebooting, turning it off and on, pulling the battery out and putting it back in, trying a different battery.
What I'm still planning on doing: Restocking the phone through Odin, or bring it to a repair service but I would try to hold off to that.
Has anyone experienced this before and how do I fix it?
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This might be your case:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15924419&postcount=13
Regards
Many40 said:
This might be your case:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15924419&postcount=13
Regards
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Yes, it looks like number 6 is my problem. I will thoroughly clean my phone when I'm back home. Question: the "USB PCB", is that the end of the charger you plug in the usb port?
Zyvron said:
Yes, it looks like number 6 is my problem. I will thoroughly clean my phone when I'm back home. Question: the "USB PCB", is that the end of the charger you plug in the usb port?
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PCB stands for "printed circuit board" so I think that he meant rather "USB PCB connector"
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PCB stands for "printed circuit board" so I think that he meant rather "USB PCB connector"
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Ah right, that makes sense. I'm going to try this and will report back if it works.
Thanks, mate.
Alright, it didn't work. I've no idea what to try anymore.
I have this problem: youtube.com/watch?v=chvRbwgT9n8
Sprint Galaxy S3, unrooted, stock
Basically one night my phone would not turn on after the battery completely drained out. Put on charger but phone would not turn on. Did the spin test on original battery and it seemed busted. Ordered a new battery, put it into phone, charged for a few hours and have the same problem the above youtuber does. The battery icon looks identical (both the grey and ~90% one).
1) If phone is unplugged nothing happens, can't start into recovery/download/boot.
2) If phone is plugged in it will show grey battery icon for like 10s, then go to a green battery screen where it shows the battery is ~90% full. The red charging light stays on.
3) I can boot into recovery mode if the phone is plugged in but if I try to normal boot the phone it will 50% get to the S3 splash screen, vibrate, and then turn off, and then 50% of the time it will boot to the home screen but wifi and data will not work (the battery icon will show 100% at this point). After a few seconds the phone will vibrate, turn off, and return to the grey battery icon swirly and then back to the 90% green battery screen.
4) I've tried wiping cache and doing factory reset but doesn't seem to phase it.
5) Reflashing via Odin to stock doesn't fix issue.
Any ideas? It doesn't seem like the power button issue because usually in those cases the battery shows as low or it will be stuck in a constant repeating cycle. This just seems like the phone is not drawing any power from the battery. Thanks.
socokal said:
I have this problem: youtube.com/watch?v=chvRbwgT9n8
Sprint Galaxy S3, unrooted, stock
Basically one night my phone would not turn on after the battery completely drained out. Put on charger but phone would not turn on. Did the spin test on original battery and it seemed busted. Ordered a new battery, put it into phone, charged for a few hours and have the same problem the above youtuber does. The battery icon looks identical (both the grey and ~90% one).
1) If phone is unplugged nothing happens, can't start into recovery/download/boot.
2) If phone is plugged in it will show grey battery icon for like 10s, then go to a green battery screen where it shows the battery is ~90% full. The red charging light stays on.
3) I can boot into recovery mode if the phone is plugged in but if I try to normal boot the phone it will 50% get to the S3 splash screen, vibrate, and then turn off, and then 50% of the time it will boot to the home screen but wifi and data will not work (the battery icon will show 100% at this point). After a few seconds the phone will vibrate, turn off, and return to the grey battery icon swirly and then back to the 90% green battery screen.
4) I've tried wiping cache and doing factory reset but doesn't seem to phase it.
5) Reflashing via Odin to stock doesn't fix issue.
Any ideas? It doesn't seem like the power button issue because usually in those cases the battery shows as low or it will be stuck in a constant repeating cycle. This just seems like the phone is not drawing any power from the battery. Thanks.
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You posted this in the wrong forum, but anyway, try downloading an app that tells you the charging current going into your phone so you can see whether any power is actually going into the battery. Have you tried plugging it into different power ports around your house / using usb + computer to charge?
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You posted this in the wrong forum, but anyway, try downloading an app that tells you the charging current going into your phone so you can see whether any power is actually going into the battery. Have you tried plugging it into different power ports around your house / using usb + computer to charge?
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No, will try that.
Update: so it appears that the longer I leave it on the charger the longer I can use it while connected. The issue now is that Wifi and data will not enable, sound doesn't work, bluetooth doesn't work. I found someone else with _exactly_ the same issue who had a weird fix:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...amsung-galaxy-s3-wont-turn-5.html#post3322596
OK, Czech this out, I took my sim card and SD card out of the phone and tried to start it, and guess what? IT FREAKING CAME ON!!! It obviously wont function without the SIM card, and it prompted me to turn off the phone and reinstall the SIM, but after doing that, it started right back up like it was new.SO EVERYONE GIVE THAT A SHOT. We'll see if it gives me any issues.
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The problem for me is that the Sprint version doesn't have a SIM card and I'm not using a SD card. Is there any reason for this madness?
socokal said:
Update: so it appears that the longer I leave it on the charger the longer I can use it while connected. The issue now is that Wifi and data will not enable, sound doesn't work, bluetooth doesn't work. I found someone else with _exactly_ the same issue who had a weird fix:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...amsung-galaxy-s3-wont-turn-5.html#post3322596
The problem for me is that the Sprint version doesn't have a SIM card and I'm not using a SD card. Is there any reason for this madness?
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It sounds like you might need to flash a new modem. I'm not 100% sure though since I don't own the phone, you should post it on the Sprint S3 forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/help
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It sounds like you might need to flash a new modem. I'm not 100% sure though since I don't own the phone, you should post it on the Sprint S3 forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/help
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I've crossposted this in the correct forum: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3-sprint/help/false-battery-random-boot-loops-t2879715
Please put replies there, sorrry.