So, let me start
Few weeks ago my phone hard-bricked when i was trying my softbricked (Rom manager fault) O1 unbrick with KDZ. But it is just the start. So my phone was left at service to unbrick it for almost two weeks. When i got my phone , it was running some 2.2 official ROM, but it was strange, filled up with russian applications and widgets. I didn't liked that, so i updated my optimus to 2.3.x (The newest version, but don't remember which) to have the new baseband. Then with super one click rooted, and through terminal i installed CWM (5.0.2.0). Then flashed the newest oxygen. My phone was very unstable. It was just shutting down for no reason, restarting, (and i also got two times kernel panic, when it was clocked just to 748mHz) especially when i was using it. Also battery lasted not long, so i wiped batery stats, but it not helped. So i decided to flash new ROM. I fully wiped everything, and flashed PerfectPeso 2.2. Then flashed fixed scripts, GAPPS, New kernel. IT was also VERY unstable, so i thought old version PerfectPeso is not compatible with new kernel (PP.kernel v1.7), so again i wiped everything and flashed PP 2.3, then GAPPS, new Kernel, Fixed scripts. It was still not stable as it should be.. In the morning phone was just turned off, so i turned it on. In battery stats there were strange things: battery just came down 10 percents as i turned it on, and also it doesn't showed it was turned off at night not all. Phone was connected to charger all night. In a day it was just keeping shutting down, but just then, when the screen was turned on. After that, when i came home, it just turned off, and not turned on, even no LG logo when trying to turn it on (It turned off in my hands, when 20% batt were left). So i just kept trying to turn it on, by removing batt, reconnecting the charger. AND IT TRUNED ON !! but after few moments it went down again. I started trying again to turned it on, it turned on again, just in few attempt's. My phone was showing that 23 percents still were left... So i fully charged it, when i did that i tried to calibrate battery, like the manual said (i typed in su, then calibrate into terminal) but calibrator said i have to turn my phone off, and when it boots, i have to remove batt, and then put it in. I did it few times (with the calibrator help). I thought everything is fine. (But i wanted more performance, so i made EXT2 in my SD, then tried to enable ungaze a2sd by typying into terminal A2SD, but nothing hapened. Then, i tried To ZIPALIGN all APK's Manually, by commands: "su", and then "zpall". The command did something, no errors. Then i wanted to get rid of boot logo by trettet, because it not looked very good, so i went to Settings and disabled my bootlogo. Then i just started playing gta III (now phone was only on default cpu clock speed, because i disabled overclocking on boot, and turned it on when i needed it). Then I pressed home key, opened Dolphin browser, and my phone went down (as usual). Then tried to turn it on, but no signs of life, i did it for over 20 times, but still no luck from yesterday. Can anyone help me to solve this ?
Also, i don't think it is fully bricked, because when i connecting the charger to my phone, phone battery pins gives me around 2.35 V (but when it was full bricked few weeks ago, it gave me no voltage)
Thank you
p.s. sorry for my terrible English
ahaha yes very funny (sarcasm) -.-
Cool story bro..
Can anyone test full-bricked device, what voltage comes to battery pins, when phone is plugged to charger ?
Thanks for the changed name )
ashirviskas said:
Can anyone test full-bricked device, what voltage comes to battery pins, when phone is plugged to charger ?
Thanks for the changed name )
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Charger should have 3.7V my uncle is good at this stuff and I needed a charger from him... found out Blackberry and Nokia have 5V
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Charger should have 3.7V my uncle is good at this stuff and I needed a charger from him... found out Blackberry and Nokia have 5V
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xDDDDD
I just wanted to know what voltages comes to the battery, (or should come if it is not removed) in the phone ;DD
Anyways, thanks for making me happier )
But i still need to know, how to test if my phone is really bricked :/. I know, it sounds a little bit strange, but i can't explain everything in English because of the lack of knowledge of English words ;DD
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xDDDDD
I just wanted to know what voltages comes to the battery, (or should come if it is not removed) in the phone ;DD
Anyways, thanks for making me happier )
But i still need to know, how to test if my phone is really bricked :/. I know, it sounds a little bit strange, but i can't explain everything in English because of the lack of knowledge of English words ;DD
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Well, the signature isn't for you
Your phone is bricked if it won't start and kdz won't work
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Well, the signature isn't for you
Your phone is bricked if it won't start and kdz won't work
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Then how another time it didn't show any logo, but after trying it booted up. Also how it could brick, only by opening browser ? (then my phone went down and won't turn on)
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Then how another time it didn't show any logo, but after trying it booted up. Also how it could brick, only by opening browser ? (then my phone went down and won't turn on)
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Well, you can have hard brick or soft brick...
If it has a hardware brick, it is unknown how will it react, best to go to a service...
If it is software brick, try flash stock GB with kdz... if not then it is bricked, go to a service center...
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Well, you can have hard brick or soft brick...
If it has a hardware brick, it is unknown how will it react, best to go to a service...
If it is software brick, try flash stock GB with kdz... if not then it is bricked, go to a service center...
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I know. And also, today i thought that i could try to trun it on, so i took the phone, tried to turn on, but nothing. Then I took the battery out, shaked my phone and "Clapped" it into my leg, inserted the battery, pressed on button and.. the phone showed LG logo !!!
Then it went down, then I plugged in the charger. It charged a for few min. Then i powered on my phone, it turned on succesfully, so i just layed the phone on the table, to charge (It was 4% at the time). After few mi. i took the phone and it was turned off. I tried to turn it on, but no signs of life. So again, my phone is "dead". It is no truning on anymore, and shaking, pulling batt out doesn't seem to help. What should i do ?
uh~`I want to be a romer
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uh~`I want to be a romer
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so, another thing: The phone in yesterday evening started working normally (Exept few turn-offs), i left it charging till this morning. In morning phone was not active, i turned it on by reinserting batt, but phone showed just 75% batt left, even if it was plugged in whole night. Can anyone help me to remove all this sh*t ?
Also I tried few ROMs, but same. Maybe KDZ would help me if it is baseband problem ?
Or maybe it is hardware problem ?
I would be very happy if someone could help me with this
(last time KDZ bricked my phone, so i don't want to use it anymore)
ashirviskas said:
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so, another thing: The phone in yesterday evening started working normally (Exept few turn-offs), i left it charging till this morning. In morning phone was not active, i turned it on by reinserting batt, but phone showed just 75% batt left, even if it was plugged in whole night. Can anyone help me to remove all this sh*t ?
Also I tried few ROMs, but same. Maybe KDZ would help me if it is baseband problem ?
Or maybe it is hardware problem ?
I would be very happy if someone could help me with this
(last time KDZ bricked my phone, so i don't want to use it anymore)
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Also it is happening only with sim, never experienced it without sim somehow...
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This may or may not work for most but this worked heavily for my 2 units that had the same issue. One with a broken nvflash, the other that faced a bootloop and never booted up again. Took almost a week and I felt almost all hope was gone because the bloody service centre's refused to accept the unit's as they were not purchased from the region, rather online. Scumbag Samsung .
[!] This is usually a 90% fix for both broken nvflashes/deep sleep of death, considering you haven't drowned your Tab by now with no hope . I ask that you kindly attempt this once if you haven't before you QQ to the nearest Samsung center like I did.
- Drain your tablet
And by all mean's do so, The quickest way to get this done in less than 2 days or so (Depending on the battery percent charged) is to get a clear tape and tape around the power button pressed.
- Testing if you have drained it completely/Taped it right.
Connect the tablet via USB to your PC, make sure you have the NV Driver files [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1130574]
Just install the driver and proceed to the step where it asks about holding down the [Power button] +[ Volume+] and wait for the constant USB connect/disconnect sounds. It also helps to look at Device Manager to see if it still pops up.
When the battery is completely drained it will stop popping up in the device manager, and your ready to go.
MOST IMPORTANT STEP
You have only 1 and only 1 chance per drain to get this done right. Plug it into the socket charger and see if the charging icon should come up, after being fully drained you should see the charge icon should pop up [100% tested and works, this step is annoying but it's the tablet version of taking out the battery and popping it back in] and what ever you do, DON'T BOOT IT UP NORMALLY, instead press [Power Button] + [Volume -] keys and let go when you see the logo to get into fastboot mode.
Select the android buddy with the [Volume +] key and it will boot into Download Mode.
From here on out everything is easy sailing. Get the right firmware and Odin and flash the firmware you require. It doesn't matter what region you are from, the tablet is made to accept any regional firmware BUT the model number should be the same. Which mean's 7500 for 7500 ONLY.
Edit: Since you have only one chance per drain, I suggest you flash a stock firmware rather than flashing CWM to save it, Because CWM would only fix the recovery, It wouldn't fix the damaged bln. The fastest way to get a stock firmware is grabbing the stock firmware from the Overcome thread
Will taking the battery out work ? or do i have to drain the battery then turn it on ?
and for the duct tape, only power button ? because my computer won't recognise my tablet unless i use the APX mode which is (Power + Volume up), in that case i guess i have to table both power and vol down ??
There's no way to remove the battery since it's like hardbound inside. Drain it to turn it on sir.
Yeah you should get it plugged via APX mode. Press it for 15 secs both then connect it via USB, After that you can hold it down via tape, the power button only.
Maraming salamat po!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Thank you very much)
I have tried so many ways....but this may actually works..
So did you get it working? If it did I'm glad for you
tried it for the first time, didn't work and i'm giving it another try. I taped the power button to drain the battery completely, i'm gonna leave it for another day. Then tape both (power and vol +) and plug into the computer until it stops popping up ? then plug it into the socket to see if the charging icon show up ?
am i doing it right ?
my tablet is a galaxy 10.1V
Nono, Just the power button to clear the power cycle, No need to tape the volume button, Once it's in the APX mode, you just need to hold down power button and it will keep looping. when it stops appearing in device manager, It's completely drained. Actually, once it's completely drained, you need to plug it via socket charger to see if the charge icon shows up :] Then you're ready for Odin :]
Thanks so much for the helpful post, and detailed instructions.
I've drained my battery, 100% - confirmed by connecting to PC, not detected. Plugged it into wall charger, got the 'battery charging' indicator.
From there, I boot into Download mode, and fire up Odin. The device is detected on an appropriate COM port, and I can push a CWM or stock recovery image, and get a big green PASS. (usually - I've performed these steps several times, and occasionally it Odin will hang)
And yet - the device will never boot to completion, nor can I get into recovery mode.
I'm confident an underlying problem is that the device was (IS) encrypted - which is confirmed when rebooting normally: I get the pre-boot authentication page prompting for (and confirming) the passphrase - and then the android / gear outline, then... black screen. Nothing.
When attempting to select recovery mode - same thing: screen goes black, and nothing (same results whether stock or CWM recovery flashed).
Thanks again for the information - I'll keep reading, and testing - and appreciate any insight anyone may have.
SnoWake4Me said:
Thanks so much for the helpful post, and detailed instructions.
I've drained my battery, 100% - confirmed by connecting to PC, not detected. Plugged it into wall charger, got the 'battery charging' indicator.
From there, I boot into Download mode, and fire up Odin. The device is detected on an appropriate COM port, and I can push a CWM or stock recovery image, and get a big green PASS. (usually - I've performed these steps several times, and occasionally it Odin will hang)
And yet - the device will never boot to completion, nor can I get into recovery mode.
I'm confident an underlying problem is that the device was (IS) encrypted - which is confirmed when rebooting normally: I get the pre-boot authentication page prompting for (and confirming) the passphrase - and then the android / gear outline, then... black screen. Nothing.
When attempting to select recovery mode - same thing: screen goes black, and nothing (same results whether stock or CWM recovery flashed).
Thanks again for the information - I'll keep reading, and testing - and appreciate any insight anyone may have.
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Actually this is what I mentioned earlier, The problem is you have one chance per drain and you used that to flash CWM If I were you, I would suggest flashing a firmware, Probably 3.2 HC EU/US firmware of your choice. Then when you get it to boot (You should feel that slight vibration when you boot it up) after it works, you need to shut it down properly and flash the CWM.
I made the same mistake Cost me again another 8 hrs, Just for 5mins charging. FML.
However i have updated the OP with a slight "Edit" note
On another note, Updated the OP
i have tried 3 times already, didn't work ... what kind of tablet you tested the on ? mine in galaxy 10.1v.
what i did is .. i taped the power button for about 2 days, then when i plug it into the computer i can see it popping repeatedly and it won't stop because as far as i know its actually charging from my computer ..
i have actullly disassembled it and took the battery out .. but i just turned it on normally and same thing (black screen) , according to you i should not turn it on just like that .. however i should power it into recovery mod.
my question are: is taking the battery out as same as draining the battery ?
because i still couldn't figure out how to drain the battery and test that at the same time
thanks in advance, and i'm just trying to give it coupe of tries before i lose hope
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i have tried 3 times already, didn't work ... what kind of tablet you tested the on ? mine in galaxy 10.1v.
what i did is .. i taped the power button for about 2 days, then when i plug it into the computer i can see it popping repeatedly and it won't stop because as far as i know its actually charging from my computer ..
i have actullly disassembled it and took the battery out .. but i just turned it on normally and same thing (black screen) , according to you i should not turn it on just like that .. however i should power it into recovery mod.
my question are: is taking the battery out as same as draining the battery ?
because i still couldn't figure out how to drain the battery and test that at the same time
thanks in advance, and i'm just trying to give it coupe of tries before i lose hope
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Actually yes taking the battery out is the same as draining it because in truth the tablet isn't like a phone where you can pop out the battery, You can however remove it since you have disassembled it already. Instead of draining it, Try Power and Vol Down directly after popping the battery back in. Once you get into fastboot mode you need to flash the firmware via Odin. I wouldn't lose hope if I were you :] I had the same issue, Then I fixed mine.
Yeah one was the 10.1v and the 10.1 both were fixed the same method.
This however shall give you hope :] Once bricked for a week, Now alive.
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my Galaxy Tab 10.1 was bricked second time in one month, this really is a annoying issue, unfortunately samsung doesn't provide warranty in my country, not uptill now. First time I had to give it to the market for repair, the person charged me around $50 for the repair and did that in one week. The symptom were the same, I turned it off and it never came back online.
Second time, i had no choice but to dive into the issue and solve it myself, as it was totally insane to pay this much for every time my tab throws tantrum at me.
This time I discharged it fully, as you told, and tried to check it by plugging it into the system, but every time it appeared as APX device, so out of frustration I just plugged it in to the socket, and voila the battery icon appeard, i let it charge for sometime, pull out the charger and boot it normally by pressing the power button, and guess what it was back online, with all the data and everything. I had a hunch that it would turn on as, the first time, when sent to market, sharing my lattitude with my dad i was appearing at the shop location, meaning it worked there, that stupid opportunist simply wiped it and charged me $50. But now i know how to save that money
PS: I was able to identify the cause of the issue, atleast what happened with me was that i powered off the tab while plugged into socket both of the time, it never came back. Something you might avoid for this problem to occur.
atif.sami said:
my Galaxy Tab 10.1 was bricked second time in one month, this really is a annoying issue, unfortunately samsung doesn't provide warranty in my country, not uptill now. First time I had to give it to the market for repair, the person charged me around $50 for the repair and did that in one week. The symptom were the same, I turned it off and it never came back online.
Second time, i had no choice but to dive into the issue and solve it myself, as it was totally insane to pay this much for every time my tab throws tantrum at me.
This time I discharged it fully, as you told, and tried to check it by plugging it into the system, but every time it appeared as APX device, so out of frustration I just plugged it in to the socket, and voila the battery icon appeard, i let it charge for sometime, pull out the charger and boot it normally by pressing the power button, and guess what it was back online, with all the data and everything. I had a hunch that it would turn on as, the first time, when sent to market, sharing my lattitude with my dad i was appearing at the shop location, meaning it worked there, that stupid opportunist simply wiped it and charged me $50. But now i know how to save that money
PS: I was able to identify the cause of the issue, atleast what happened with me was that i powered off the tab while plugged into socket both of the time, it never came back. Something you might avoid for this problem to occur.
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For some odd reason it happens different for most tabs, I don't know if this is Samsung's first dedicated tablet apart from the 7" that was a huge wafer or a loaf of bread But as far as I know that was just an oversized phone without much tablet dedication compared to this. In my case dad had turned off the tablet while it was on a bootloop and it never turned on again, that is until I tried out the above method and it worked, So far so good I'm on the CM9 Kang and no issues so far. Thank tablet God.
i've used a terminal app to force my 10.1 p7510 to charge when plugged in into the usb.. now i'm also thinking that it might be charging even while it's on DSOD or bricked.. : /
i guess to avoid getting bricked is to never turn it off.. sigh.. just keep on killing apps, clearing memory, etc..
i'm still hoping and waiting for it to be drained.. tried plugging it in for about 3 seconds to check if the battery icon would pop-up nothing.. so back to plugging it into my pc and taping the power button in..
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the tape keeps on loosening (don't want to stick it too much over the screen since it might pull off the matte screen protector) so i took 2 rubber bands and affixed it to my tablet.. made sure it was tight enough to pull down/in the power button ^^
Eiranova said:
i've used a terminal app to force my 10.1 p7510 to charge when plugged in into the usb.. now i'm also thinking that it might be charging even while it's on DSOD or bricked.. : /
i guess to avoid getting bricked is to never turn it off.. sigh.. just keep on killing apps, clearing memory, etc..
i'm still hoping and waiting for it to be drained.. tried plugging it in for about 3 seconds to check if the battery icon would pop-up nothing.. so back to plugging it into my pc and taping the power button in..
Quick Update:
the tape keeps on loosening (don't want to stick it too much over the screen since it might pull off the matte screen protector) so i took 2 rubber bands and affixed it to my tablet.. made sure it was tight enough to pull down/in the power button ^^
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I just happened to use one of those 3M Scotch tape I had lying around in the house, was pretty good and didn't leave any tape marks on the device. Yeah offline charging apparently is a bad thing for the tablet which is why I never chose to keep/enable it despite it was already there via Overcome ROM. Easiest way to drain it is by holding the power button down, best be unplugged and leave it to drain that's the only way you'll know it doesn't get charged, should take a max about a day or more depending on the % of charge it has.
One thing I found out was, You can never really brick the tablet completely, Unless ofcourse you flashed some other device's firmware on it. I do hope the ICS official release has some sort of fix to this, rather than the boring immense hours you would have to wait or pay just to get it fixed.
I do however wonder how many have gotten their tablets fixed via this method..
well you know what? i've just arrived from work and i turn on the speaker of my pc and it's still doing the badump-badump sound.. so now i'm guessing it's looping the on and off thing as well as the usb charging feature.. so now i'm gonna leave it again for day UNPLUGGED from my pc and hopefully tomorrow night it'll be all ready for reflashing.. sigh..
Eiranova said:
well you know what? i've just arrived from work and i turn on the speaker of my pc and it's still doing the badump-badump sound.. so now i'm guessing it's looping the on and off thing as well as the usb charging feature.. so now i'm gonna leave it again for day UNPLUGGED from my pc and hopefully tomorrow night it'll be all ready for reflashing.. sigh..
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Yeah don't worry so much about it, You'll know if you did it right when you plug it into the socket and you see the battery charge icon, That's a sign that's it's completely drained and recharging from scratch Remember to flash a stock firmware first as that fixes the broken bootloader. Recovery module won't do much.
Do keep me updated
argh got home and it's still not drained : /
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argh got home and it's still not drained : /
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A fully charged one takes about a week to drain, according to one of the member
Hey,
Major issue I'm facing today. I first noticed this about 2 days ago, I'm currently running Resurrection Remix 2.0 and has been installed for about a week? with no issues.
Two days ago, I put my phone on to charge at night, as usual. Woke up the next morning and by mid morning Noticed my battery was at 15%, When I checked the battery stats, It looked as If the battery had not charged ( I'm pretty sure it had been on charge, but put it down to the fact that It wasnt plugged in correctly)
Next Day, (last night) I put it on charge, and checked it was definitely on charge, which it was. I woke up this morning to find the exact problem, this time at 50%, When I remove the power cable the charging animation still continues.
I turn the power off, Remove the battery and wipe battery stats and start back up, over the next 20 minutes the battery stats increase my battery percentage (not charging) and then continue to drop later on.
Tonight my phone had drained its battery, thought it would be best to drain it, leave it off on charge and turn it back on. I've come to turn it back on removed the power cable and now it will not turn on but constantly loop through the Charging animation icons..
Does anyone know the fault for this or even a fix? I cant boot into my rom, or even CWM
urgent help needed!! thanks in advance
Rob
addictedtopain said:
Hey,
Major issue I'm facing today. I first noticed this about 2 days ago, I'm currently running Resurrection Remix 2.0 and has been installed for about a week? with no issues.
Two days ago, I put my phone on to charge at night, as usual. Woke up the next morning and by mid morning Noticed my battery was at 15%, When I checked the battery stats, It looked as If the battery had not charged ( I'm pretty sure it had been on charge, but put it down to the fact that It wasnt plugged in correctly)
Next Day, (last night) I put it on charge, and checked it was definitely on charge, which it was. I woke up this morning to find the exact problem, this time at 50%, When I remove the power cable the charging animation still continues.
I turn the power off, Remove the battery and wipe battery stats and start back up, over the next 20 minutes the battery stats increase my battery percentage (not charging) and then continue to drop later on.
Tonight my phone had drained its battery, thought it would be best to drain it, leave it off on charge and turn it back on. I've come to turn it back on removed the power cable and now it will not turn on but constantly loop through the Charging animation icons..
Does anyone know the fault for this or even a fix? I cant boot into my rom, or even CWM
urgent help needed!! thanks in advance
Rob
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Do you have a screen shot of the battery usage? And it sounds like you have an issue with the charging port. Clean it with a dry toothbrush
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may be a kernel change would also help u ...
Pretty straightforward really. Either a battery problem (less likely) or a problem with the USB/charging circuitry (more likely; we see it on here all the time).
Try another battery & see if you can get the phone to boot. Otherwise, service centre.
As KMs said, you might as well clean the USB port while you're at it, and then try a new battery (at least you'll have a spare when you get it back from repair).
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Pretty straightforward really. Either a battery problem (less likely) or a problem with the USB/charging circuitry (more likely; we see it on here all the time).
Try another battery & see if you can get the phone to boot. Otherwise, service centre.
As KMs said, you might as well clean the USB port while you're at it, and then try a new battery (at least you'll have a spare when you get it back from repair).
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Okay tried cleaning it with a tooth brush but no luck, the phones been playing up all day, still saying its charging even though Its not plugged in lol. Just got back home to back everything up do a full wipe and update the rom to the latest version+ kernel and its not even being recognised by USB, it'll charge, but not recognise
Is this a common problem with the S2 then? that the usb fails/malfunctions?
Think I'm gonna have to take it back to three on Monday, hopefully get it repaired/replaced asap ( but will need to flash back to original stock ROM + Kernel first!)
We've seen our share (I've seen at least a couple of dozen) of these in Q&A over the time I've been here (~8 mths), yeah.
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Is this a common problem with the S2 then? that the usb fails/malfunctions?)
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We've seen our share (I've seen at least a couple of dozen) of these in Q&A over the time I've been here (~8 mths), yeah.
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Cheers, Thanks for your Help. I'll let you know the outcome on Monday.
no point starting a new thread.
So Does anyone Know where I can get the original (HG3) Three UK ROM for Samsung Galaxy S2?
I don't want Three to say that because I've put a custom ROM on it I've voided my warranty
Here, Samfirmware.com or you can get the latest firmware for phone model/country/carrier that you'd normally get via OTA update with the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on here/Google).
Thanks again for all your help.
finally got some screen shots off my phone,
here's the battery stats if anyone's interested
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Here, Samfirmware.com or you can get the latest firmware for phone model/country/carrier that you'd normally get via OTA update with the PC version of Checkfus (search for it on here/Google).
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Downloaded the firmware, however I cant seem to find how to update OTA, Its given me a .tar which I could use Odin to upgrade, However as I cant get it to read from USB I cannot get Odin to detect my device
That's probably due to the USB circuitry problems you seem to be having. Might want to use Mobile Odin (get it from Google Play) to flash the firmware. If it's an ICS stock rom, you should be able to use Triangle Away to reset the flash counter.
Hey guys..im also experiencing the same problem.....sometimes charging stopped halfway....when i check with the "battery widget" it says overvoltage (with " ! " symbol)....
is it because the firmware problem or usb port or charger problem ? any solution? Tq in advance guys !
Did you even bother to read the thread ? Go back to stock & see if this resolves the problem. Then clean the USB port with an unused toothbrush or similar. Try a new battery. Try a new charger. And if none of these fixes things, service centre.
maliiik said:
Hey guys..im also experiencing the same problem.....sometimes charging stopped halfway....when i check with the "battery widget" it says overvoltage (with " ! " symbol)....
is it because the firmware problem or usb port or charger problem ? any solution? Tq in advance guys !
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MistahBungle said:
Did you even bother to read the thread ? Go back to stock & see if this resolves the problem. Then clean the USB port with an unused toothbrush or similar. Try a new battery. Try a new charger. And if none of these fixes things, service centre.
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of course i read the thread bro I was thinking of a solution besides sending it to service centre since ive already rooted my phone ~~
My battery has just been 4 month ~~
maybe i"ll try cleaning the port 1st as u suggest ~~
will give feedback A.S.A.P.
tq XD
I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution.
Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck.
Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery.
I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. A jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery.
I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed,
My prayers were answered! I powered on the phone and its back to normal.
Strangely telling me the battery is at around 75% plus ...
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I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
Have you tried booting into recovery?
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
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Have you tried booting into recovery?
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It is not responsive. It wont boot let alone bootloader.
NineInchNails said:
Try pulling the battery for a few. Then press and hold the camera button and click power on. No idea where i remember this from but it may work.
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Tried this too. Even with volume combinations as suggested in other threads I have looked up. My battery appeared to be charged to at least 80%. I'm hoping its something that hasn't bricked my phone and there is a simple fix. Maybe the battery level has been wrong?
I've left it on charge for now and I will give the buttons another go. At the minute it doesn't appear to be charging.
Can the battery pull cause any damage?
*Anyone else having trouble check this thread ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1408374 I've tried all these tips here and non are working for me so far. They keep mentioning cwm 5 may cause problems ? I think I was running it because when I s-offed it came with it. Not sure which version it was?
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
NineInchNails said:
The battery pull wont do any damage but this doesnt sound too good. If you cant boot to recovery or the bootloader your pretty much screwed.
Does the led light up when you charge it? If so it may not be completely bricked. But we need to see if you can power it up at all.
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No, no light so I was worried. Good news is it's not bricked. I have another problem though.... I will post back in a minute, I will post the fix that worked for me to the top of the thread.
My battery seems to indicate it has charge that's what it appears to be reading at once I booted the phone up I took that picture. But it indicates its been on a while? ? ?
And now ky battery is draining like crazy. Is it just a bad battery? Or one that needs calibration?
Seems strange as only people with a low battery come across this problem. What could have caused it. I'd rather not have it happen again.
Any clues?
Oh wow! Awesome man. My next round of questions were going to be if you had access to a different battery or a friends phone to test it before we claimed it as a brick. Huge props for going above and beyond. Now stay away from the app that caused it but it also couldve been the battery failing and its coincedence.
Was gonna order a wall charger and a spare battery. But would have had to wait until Tuesday with shipping.
Battery level seems a bit all over the place. Why is there a second gap ?
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Pauly_k said:
I install a wifi kill app.
It was apparently shutting down wifi? What wifi I have no idea. It was stuck and non responsive for around 4/5 minutes so I thought a battery pull and a restart would get me out of the app.
And now the phone will not respond to me pressing the power button?! Nor will it charge. It's not responsive to being plugged in.
Help...
First time anything like this has happened to me. I am stuck without a phone and worried. Any help is appreciated?! I best not have screwed up the device.
Its a GSM evo, had a high battery charge. Running a custom rom with s off.
Even plugging it in gives no response. :crying:
It has been charged all night. seemed to indicate it was full. This morning it was down to 80% and I left it on charge some more, now this.
I opened up my comand prompt then typed "fastboot reboot-bootloader" and I just get < waiting for device >
I've been through this thread and non of this helps. (link below)
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My solution. Button presses were having no effect I left my phone connected to the mains and re tried the buttons and adb commands with no luck. Although my battery was reading at around or above 80% before the problems I was sure it wasn't the battery. I couldn't see how it was appearing to be bricked and unresponsive. I installed an app, it hung and I pulled the battery. So I presumed something had gone wrong with the app.....
I took a chance that the battery had drained fully somehow and the ROM was somehow supplying some dodgy readings.
The battery and wire trick was what I tried. I jump start was needed.
I should have licked the battery first to feel for any charge. But it was the last thing I was thinking about. (I don't have a voltage tester any more around the house)
I set off for a 9 volt battery. Using my trusty tongue again the one in my alarm was out of juice. Thankfully I got a new one though which was laying around.
So if it wasn't going to work I knew this battery wasn't going to be part of a problem.
Striping metal food ties I connected positive to the one positive contact and used another metal strip to tap each of the three negatives, obviously connected to the negative of the battery. I kept the touches quick barely a second and kept running through all three. Went well, there was no heat from the battery. I did that for about a minute.
Be careful, don't damage your battery! Do not blame anyone else if you do... Make sure not to have your connections touch one another or its game over too.
I used my trusty method of licking the phone battery and bam, it was charged and I knew about it!
Placed it into the phone. Took a bit of time to say my prayers.... Connected the USB and the computer acknowledged that it was working a red light flashed. I powered on the phone and its back to normal. Strangely telling me its at around 75% plus ...
I didn't have a wall charger or a spare battery as you can tell. I got there in the end.
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WOW where did you come up with using a battery to charge your phone?
My bet the battery needs to be trained again. Let it die then charge it back to full. The fact the battery failed like that might mean its still going bad so if it were me.. id get a new battery when you could. Trickle charging all the time probably isnt the best either but you do what you have to for a charge.
I just wanted to thank the OP (which I did using the button) for actually posting his solution so future searchers will not just come across the question.
Same thing is happening mine now. I can get into fastboot but from searching everywhere it seems the phone will not charge when its in fastboot. I may aswell go find a square battery somewhere around my house and give this a shot.
I found by searching that there is a fastboot charging script but that seems to be in the One X forum , I tried it anyways and my phone just keeps rebooting into fastboot. Im sickened because a girl I was with on friday night said to me on facebook that she sent me some good pictures but I cant get phone on to look at them ha ha . ill try whats in the first post here now and see how I go. Thanks.
Man my phone is old. Good to know this thread helped a few people.
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Hi everyone, i have just spent the whole day searching about this problem and i have not found solution, and things that worked for some people, won't work for me.
Hope you guys can help.
I'm going to tell you the events before i had this issue so you can get a lot of info about what posibbly happened:
1. I was tired of my phone being slow and some apps didn't worked for it because it had Android 2.2.2 Froyo and was never updated.
2. I decided to update installing Neutrino 2.9 by Notorius : Thread .
3. When i was trying to install the custom recovery i did something wrong and had to flash a Stock rom using RSDLite.
4. The rom that i installed was a Stock rom from Personal Argentina 2.3.6 Gingerbread.
5. After flashing this rom, the battery won't charge over 93% or something like that.
6. I wanted the phone to reach more battery % so i did something that read here at xda.
7. While the phone was off and charging, i removed the battery and once it showed the "?" symbol, i put back the battery, so it showed 5% and i panicked!!! because the tutorial said i had to install some zips from the recovery and when i tried to get into the recovery (i had already installed CMW) it didn't loaded the recovery. I pulled off the battery and try many times to get in the recovery but i couldn't so i powered on the phone an let it charge for hours but it didn't worked.
8. I was getting crazy so i tried to calm down and do some research here at xda, i was reading for hours until i found This thread , the guy said the the only thing that i had to do was waiting for the app to show approximately 4200mV and hit fix, it should fix the problem:
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in my case, percentage shown was 8% and when i hit the fix, it raised 2 or 3 points (remember this numbers) i guess, but didn't fixed it at all (100%) so i started hitting fix every 10 minutes after being sure that the voltage was 4200 or above.
9. While doing this fix thing every while, i saw that every time it raised 3 or 2 points at the percentage shown, (the whole process was done with the phone plugged into the wall charger). I sttoped when the percentage shown was 97% because i was afraid it would cross to some 100%+ percentage, and 97% was nice for me.
10. After fixing the battery indicator issue, i decided to follow carefully a tutorial too install Neutrino rom 2.9 EE that i mentioned before.
11. The whole process was great and i successfully installed the Neutrino Rom i was happy and everything was fine.
12. When i was looking around the features of the new rom, the phone freezed and rebooted i thougt that maybe i was touching so many settings that it became unstable,although i didn't touch anything about processor speed , so i power on again and after a while another reboot , and another and another, i started to get mad at this and tried to find out what was causing this reboots.
13. Suddenly i had an idea and pulled off the microsd card, after this, the phone was like 9-10 hours without any rebooting and i was playing and installing several apps, and checking some tweets and facebook and everything was fine.
14 After like 11 hours since the last reboot, the phone rebooted again and this made me mad again.
15. I turned on the phone again and i saw it had like 40% of battery left, so i plugged it and let it for an hour, when i checked back the battery level, it was at 92%, so i let it for about half an hour more and it had again 92% of battery.
16. So i thougth, well during the flashing process the battery indicator got miscalibrated again, so... (pay attention to this) i run the app that fixed my problem at (see step 8 and 9 above) , it was at 92% and remember i saw that it "jumped" like 2 or 3% off battery shown, but instead, it jumped to 100% and battery shown jumped from 92% to 177% i panicked!! (again), and unplugged the phone.
17. I continued using the phone normally and before going to bed i plugged the phone.
18. After like 2 hours charging, i went to check the phone back and it was DEAD
So i tried this:
1. Plug the phone to the wall charger ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
2. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
3. Plug the phone to the PC via usb with battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on for 1 seconds and then goes off
4. Plug the phone to the PC via usb without battery ---> RESULT: green led turns on and stays turned on, until i put back the battery
5. Plug the phone to the wall charger (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
6. Plug the phone to the wall charger without battery (samsung galaxy s3 1mA) ---> RESULT: nothing happened.
I hope some of you can help with this, i've read a lot of posts but they are from 2011 or 2012, i'm making this one because non of those gave any help. Thank you very much for your atenttion.
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
SimplicityApks said:
That's very strange...
But the random reboots you are having an neutrino are not your fault, I had those two... I think sometimes it just hang on the deep sleep and wouldn't turn on so I'd have to pull battery and then boot up again. Maybe that's your problem, too, try pulling battery.
If this doesn't fix it, does long press on power do anything?
In the end you could still charge the battery externally though you'd have to look what voltage you need and which pins you need to connect.
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1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
ravilov said:
As far as the 100+ percentage goes, that is reasonably normal. It happens to everyone sooner or later (me included), and mostly happens if you choose to restart the service instead of rebooting the device. A reboot should help (always does for me). But even if it doesn't, there's no reason to panic - it's just a number. It does not mean your battery is being severely overcharged lol.
I see you're using an older version of the app. You should try upgrading. Not to say a newer version will make any kind of difference, but hey, newer is better, right?
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1. Thank you for clarifying about the percentage shown thing.
2. The screenshot that i posted is from the app thread, my phone doesn't turn on .
3. I had installed 0.40 version.
4. Thank you
SERCASER1 said:
1. I already pulled the battery but it didn't helped me.
2. Long press on power does nothing.
3. I'm looking for someone who can tell me if the battery is ok using a multimeter
but i think it's very strange, because even without battery the phone should turn on screen when plugged to the wall charger.
4. Thank you.
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1. Oops didn't realize that you connected your phone to pc without battery, Sorry
2. Ok, was just a theory
3. It should be alright, (if you know which pins to connect ) but you can read through this guide.
4. You're welcome (but the thanks button is a lot easier...)
I hope you can get your phone to work again, but if charging via multimeter doesn't help, you'd have to send it in I think
It's alive!!!
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
SERCASER1 said:
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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leaving it in a box? what does it means?
diegofdg said:
leaving it in a box? what does it means?
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Meaning he left it alone
SERCASER1 said:
I'm glad to tell you that my phone is alive again, and the only thing that I did was, leaving it in a box with the battery in, and today I tried to turn it on and it turned on, the charging via wall charger is also working and everything seems to be fine. Thanks for the help.
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Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
Feche said:
Are you sure that your battery didn't get wet? maybe it is on short-circuit, if I was you I would change it.
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I'm pretty sure that it didn't get any wet, I still don't know what happened but it is working perfectly. Thanks for your help!
Hey guys, last night something happened to my good old S2, i had problems about it's battery before so when it's battery suddenly dropped down from %20 to %0, i wasn't surprised. So i went and put it to charge (i don't use the original charger, i found a huawei charger and it gets the job done) and after a moment it showed that it is at %50 battery (like i said my battery has some problems), so i tried to turn on my phone. Then it went in a boot loop on the Samsung logo, i was going to turn off the phone so i can clear the cache partition so i unplugged the charger cable and it suddenly went dark, no power, no nothing. I tried to put it on charger again but it didn't help. I let it charge there overnight but it didn't help either. Then i borrowed my friend's S2 battery and it didn't work while my battery powered up his phone so i think problem is not on the battery. What do you think, is my phone bricked/fried? I had a photo archive in my usb storage(not in the SD storage) so i really wantt to recover it if its possible in anyway. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks..
Thats wierd , try with another charger and the original battery and let us know how it went.
PS:That phone is a though piece of hardware mine is still runing (of course after a lot of repairings and software changes) after 5 years , finally swtiched for lg g3 used from ebay , best deal ever
ThatLatinGuy said:
Thats wierd , try with another charger and the original battery and let us know how it went.
PS:That phone is a though piece of hardware mine is still runing (of course after a lot of repairings and software changes) after 5 years , finally swtiched for lg g3 used from ebay , best deal ever
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I tried another charger adapter (not original, my original charger is not working properly) with different cables and it didn't work. And for the battery, i have an original battery and it didn't work, then i used my friend's non-original battery and it didn't work either like i said before. But my messed up battery turned on his S2. So the problem is probably not on the battery.
Cunerg said:
I tried another charger adapter (not original, my original charger is not working properly) with different cables and it didn't work. And for the battery, i have an original battery and it didn't work, then i used my friend's non-original battery and it didn't work either like i said before. But my messed up battery turned on his S2. So the problem is probably not on the battery.
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What about usb , does the pc at least make the device connected sound ?
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What about usb , does the pc at least make the device connected sound ?
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No, pc doesn't indicate anything that my phone is connected nor the phone shows "charging" indicator.
Cunerg said:
No, pc doesn't indicate anything that my phone is connected nor the phone shows "charging" indicator.
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Dead motherboard maybe?
Stachura5 said:
Dead motherboard maybe?
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Most likely
Stachura5 said:
Dead motherboard maybe?
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Is there a way i can be sure it is a dead motherboard? And even if it's dead is there a chance i can recover my photos?
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Is there a way i can be sure it is a dead motherboard? And even if it's dead is there a chance i can recover my photos?
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Hi there. I has a similar problem, the phone was working but even with the orginal charger plugged in was not charging at all (connection to PC didn't help either).
There is a procedure to "retrigger" a stuck charger IC.. I lost a link to it and I'm looking.
Had something to do like:
_ remove battery
_ plug phone to charger
_ insert battery
_ turn on
After that I'm not sure anymore.. maybe again "remove battery" step. After that put everything to rest, insert battery and then the charger and see if it works.
I'm googling, someone made a post on XDA with the full instructions.
camp0s said:
Hi there. I has a similar problem, the phone was working but even with the orginal charger plugged in was not charging at all (connection to PC didn't help either).
There is a procedure to "retrigger" a stuck charger IC.. I lost a link to it and I'm looking.
Had something to do like:
_ remove battery
_ plug phone to charger
_ insert battery
_ turn on
After that I'm not sure anymore.. maybe again "remove battery" step. After that put everything to rest, insert battery and then the charger and see if it works.
I'm googling, someone made a post on XDA with the full instructions.
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Ok thanks please let me know if you find the full procedure and I'll try it
Hi, I found the procedue, it's exacly how I described the 4 steps above (the source it's on a external forum, I'm not sure if I can link it here - I'll send you a PM if you like).
SO, if the phone was stuck just like mine, working until the battery discharged even if plugged-in, that will solve it quickly (mine did precisely).
Otherwise.. there could be several reasons why the phone is not recognized anymore, some point out a faulty cap around the charging IC (if the phone is totally dead):
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This cap, if faulty, is actively shorting "Vbat - Gnd" line thus prventing any operation of the phone. Could be water damage o defective charger. It depends how much you want to dig to repair your phone (there could be 1000s other reasons - this is the most HW one).
From what you described the problem in your post.. this defective Cap would/could explain many things.
How are your soldering skills? First thing I'll do is to open the phone and inspect, possibily with the help of a multimeter, next desolder the cap and power the phone back with a charged battery (don't connect the external charger, there might be burned pcb traces - but that's anohter story).
camp0s said:
Hi, I found the procedue, it's exacly how I described the 4 steps above (the source it's on a external forum, I'm not sure if I can link it here - I'll send you a PM if you like).
SO, if the phone was stuck just like mine, working until the battery discharged even if plugged-in, that will solve it quickly (mine did precisely).
Otherwise.. there could be several reasons why the phone is not recognized anymore, some point out a faulty cap around the charging IC (if the phone is totally dead):
This cap, if faulty, is actively shorting "Vbat - Gnd" line thus prventing any operation of the phone. Could be water damage o defective charger. It depends how much you want to dig to repair your phone (there could be 1000s other reasons - this is the most HW one).
From what you described the problem in your post.. this defective Cap would/could explain many things.
How are your soldering skills? First thing I'll do is to open the phone and inspect, possibily with the help of a multimeter, next desolder the cap and power the phone back with a charged battery (don't connect the external charger, there might be burned pcb traces - but that's anohter story).
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Sadly the first procedure didn't work. My soldering skills are not that good but i might know someone who can open up the phone and do things properly Do you know any detailed instructions for the second method you mentioned? Thanks..
I've no other details other that the picture. Before tearing the phone apart, you should try to test "continuity" beteween the "+" and "-" metal contacts of the battery holder. If you have a friends with a multimeter he will know how/what to look for (tell him about the short).
camp0s said:
I've no other details other that the picture. Before tearing the phone apart, you should try to test "continuity" beteween the "+" and "-" metal contacts of the battery holder. If you have a friends with a multimeter he will know how/what to look for (tell him about the short).
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Ok, thanks anyways. I'll update you if I do it.