Hi,
I have got my Galaxy S2 Hard Bricked but I DO NOT MAKE ANY WIPE :crying:
My S2 have:
- SiyahKernel S2-v4.1beta6
- Dual Boot activated
- Rom 1: Stock XWLPG with Android 4.0.3 with JKay framework and some gestures defined (script loaded afterboot with script manager) (daily)
- Rom 2: ParanoidAndroid JB 1.97 with Android 4.1.1 (only for test, only loaded 3-4 times)
How hard brick happened:
- Rom 1 loaded, low of battery (last time I see it was 18%)
- One hour later (aprox) I try to make a call with my S2 and see that is off and do not respond.
- I suppose that it is battery out.
- I try to charge it with a portable usb battery (as many times I do it).
- Some minutes later it does not appear the battery charging icon.
- Try to turn on the phone, it does not respond.
- Left charging for some more time on my pocket.
- Tried again but do not turn on.
- Tried to remove the battery and put it again. No turn on.
- Realized that the phone is hot (near camera) and portable battery is hot too.
- Disconected from the battery and left it on my pocket.
- One or two hours later reach my car and tried to charge the phone with a cigarette lighter USB charger.
- No turn on and no battery charging icon.
- Reach home and tried to charge with original wall charger.
- Tried to remove battery several times.
- Tried to enter dowload mode with USB jig (removing battery too)
- Sad and angry because of I think my phone is dead :crying:
Today I will take my S2 to service support, I suppose that they will repair my phone under warranty.
Now my ask for HELP:
- Please, could anyone tell me if it is possible to save, keep or copy my phone's Internal SD memmory data?
There are some important data that I do not want to loose and I'm afraid that if they replace the motherboard to repair the phone then internal SD memmory is replaced too because it's integrated in the motherboard.
- Could anyone confirm if the internal SD memmory is integrated in the motherboard?
- Could anyone confirm if there is any way to backup the internal SD data somehow?
Thanks in advance and best regards
You must say "goodbye" to your data on internal SD. eMMC chip is the part of the motherboard. Sorry.
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Here is the problem...
Both when long pressing power button - and short pressing + taping on a POWER OFF button - the phone doesn't turn off It just shuts down, vibrates and then restarts. Didnt have this problem before - just noticed it today.
I use official I9100XXKE4 rom - never rooted the phone and never used any custom ROMs.
Any idea what causes the problem ?
cryanpl said:
Here is the problem...
Both when long pressing power button - YES thats how you reboot SGS.
Short press = screen off
Hold power button down OFF screen displays
You can always try factory reset and wipe data if you think you have a problem .
jje
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Just hard formated the phone using *2767*3855# method
(WARNING - THIS CODE FORMATS YOUR PHONE AND ERASES ALL DATA)
... and nothing still reboots instead of turning off.
I just long press the power button - wait for the menu to appear - the tap on a POWER OFF text - the phone informs me that this will Turn Off the phone - I tap on OK - and ... it doesn't turn off - but jus restarts.
Very strange I am on a train right now - and wanted to save sme battery for the final part of the trip - but looks like because of this problem - I am not able to turn off the device. OK - i phisically removed the battery - but it's not the solution of the problem for future I guess
Return to seller its not normal .
jje
I know exactly what you mean. I had this issue amongst a list of others and it was really ****ing me off. After i updated to ke7 it was still the same. I have a bluteooth issue so installed Villain ROM 1.1 - That sorted the problem. The phone turns off and on like normal but still have the bluetooth issue.
I dont think you should return it until the new firmware is out
soved
Hi, I had the same problem too, the details:
1. I have never used a different ROM than the original.
2. I haven’t upgraded the original firmware.
3. When the problem happened I haven’t installed any software (recently)
4. This is not a software problem definitely
5. The problem began when I have finished charging the phone (the phone was turned off), I disconnected it from the AC Charger and it began to show the battery icon like if it was charging and a yellow triangle advertising that the charger doesn’t have the sufficient power to charge. Then I tried turning on the phone (it was really difficult to turn it on), when I finally turned it on I noticed some problems with the data network (really annoying), when I tried to turn off the phone, it begun to restart instead turning off.
6. I have been goggling since then, only one thing solved the problem is to clean the USB PHONE connector (I used a small clip to clean), there is something unclean (I can´t see, it’s something very little) yet but the problem has gone, all is normal now.
7. In a youtube video, someone has a comment that says: “I had to turn it in to the local samsung service location. They told me that it was corrosion in the USB port due to water damage. They charged me €70, and I'll pick it up tommorow.” This confirms the problem.
I am thinking that the USB connectors come with this problem, so we have to be very careful at the moment of charging the phone, maybe we should plug the charger to the phone before connecting it to the AC power.
Sorry for my english (it's not good)
freddysalazar:
first post. i rarely post, but wow, that solved it. it must be hardware related. i took a cotton cleaner(or what it is called) and cleaned it and it solved the problem. will not have the charger by my bedroom windows during snowy winter anymore. moved it to my dry livingroom
Yesterday when I was playing Pool Rebel online, it crashed once in the first. After a restart, it looks fine and was working properly except a little bit overheat.
Then the phone prompt a low battery warning, so I plugged the charge into it and keep playing, after a few minutes, seems like the charging speed is lower than the power consumption and the phone automatically shutdown. After a few seconds, I switched it on again, and the problem happened.
The phone looks like just been fully wiped and updated the rom, so I tried to install the titanium backup but failed, said there is no enough memory on the phone. I went to the application management and found there is no memory usage gauge on the internal memory tab.
Please help~
Phone: UK Galaxy SII (black 16g)
Rom: MIUI developer version 12.23
Hi Folks,
i guess my Xperia Pro (= Xperia Neo + keyboard, Android 2.3.4) is dying on me, it doesn't start anymore. I am actually not quite sure if this thread should really be here, as this may well be a general problem with SONY Xperia's, mods feel free to move it if so.
Here is what is happening:
Before, when i shut down the phone and connected it to the charger, a kind of BIOS screen flashed up shortly after that, showing 'SONY Ericsson' and then some simple graphics displaying the loading status of the battery.
Now, if i shut down the phone normally, these BIOS screens are not there anymore, and subsequently the phone can also not be started. Here is what i have to do get it working again:
- pull the battery
- wait for 5 - 10 mins
- connect the phone to the charger with NO battery inserted
- wait for the 'SONY Ericsson' screen, then insert the battery quickly
The phone will then startup normally. The following potential problems were checked:
- battery is fully loaded
- SD card removed, to no avail
- SIM card removed, to no avail
Phone is rooted, and has a 1 GB EXT3 partition on the SD card as ROM extension (SD Link).
Strange enough, the phone is also sometimes not correctly recognized on my laptop. If that happens, also SONY's support program for Windows, called 'PC Companion 2.0', is unable to connect to the phone when on USB.
What could that be ? Is my battery dying on me ? That's highly unlikely, because the phone is only 3 months old and i can run the phone for 3 days without recharging, if necessary (Thanks to root, removing facebook and the like, and the app 'SetXperia').
On the other side, the missing recognition from my Laptop would most likely indicate a problem with that BIOS being loaded from the ROM, no ? Do ANDROID phones even have something like a BIOS ? If so, is it made by the phone manufacturers ?
Thank you for helping me out, as i have rooted the phone i can not easily send it to service.
Regards
Christian
ADDENDUM / 0% battery problem related :
It may so happen that my problem is somehow related to the fuel gauge problem reported in this thread here, but i never experience a 0% loading state ? My batter never goes lower than 30% typically, and the restart problem will also happen if the battery status was showing 98% when i am shutting it down. However, it seems that the guys suffering from this do have a similar problem, i.e. the KERNEL not booting when they try to switch on the phone ?
Is it possible that some hardware part in the phone checks the status of the battery, detects it as too low and refuses to start-up, even though the battery is actually full ? But then, why doesn't it start with battery inserted when i connect it to the charger ? I first have to pull the battery, then it will start ?
ADDENDUM 2 / Power Saving App SetXperia messing with CPU clock:
As mentioned above, i am using the app 'SetXperia' to save battery. In 'default' mode it will constantly vary the CPU clock according to real need, in order to save on battery. Can this app confuse the fuel gauge, and my battery show it is fully loaded, while in reality it is almost down ?
Sounds to me like you removed an app that you shouldn't have. This happened to me the first time I rooted my Xperia Pro. Ended up in an endless boot loop.
The fix? Factory reset of the phone via PC Companion. There's information on exactly how to do it in PC Companion.
After it's reset, you can re-root it. Then be more careful about what you remove.
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phoenix_rizzen said:
Sounds to me like you removed an app that you shouldn't have. This happened to me the first time I rooted my Xperia Pro. Ended up in an endless boot loop.
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Hi, thanks for the input, but i am pretty sure this is not the case. Here is what i removed, using Titanium Backup:
SONY Sales Demo
Facebook 1.7.1
Facebook Setup 2.0.A.0.2
Facebook Calendar Sync
Facebook Extension 2.0.13
Facebook Notification Publisher 1.0
Facebook Post Viewer 1.0.A.0.3
Fun & Downloads 2.2.3
Moxier Pro 2.4.0
Music Unlimited 1.0.2
SEMC Facebook Proxy 1.0.A.0.7
Games and Applications 1.0.A.0.6
Street View 1.7.0.4
Twitter Extension 2.0.9
UEFA.com 1.0.0
Video Unlimited 1.2.0
Xperia HotShots 0.1.1
Anyhow, i have made a backup of all of them in Titanium before de-installation, so i could restore them if you really think that any of them could have an influence on whether the KERNEL (BIOS) will start after being shut down ?
moving posts here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1471928&page=2
Hi, everyone. I've seen the other threads and no one had a problem quite like mine.
Yesterday I've upgraded my Alcatel OT-997, ICS 4.0.4. with Kuano's TWRP and now it's:
Alcatel OT-997D, JB 4.1.1. - (details in this thread, 5th post) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1981692&page=89
D means I can now use two SIM cards, which is cool.
The problem is the damn thing doesn't charge when it's turned on. It shows the lightning bolt over the battery icon, but in settings shows that charger is not connected. However, when it's turned off it charges, normally. I tried different settings in USB menu: Mass storage, MTP, Camera mode and Charge. Tried with and without Debugging mode. All of those work when connected to a computer in the sense that I can use internal storage, access both SD cards, and so on. But it doesn't charge.
I have tried 3 different cables, 3 wall outlets, and 2 PCs so it's not that. I suppose it's not a hardware problem otherwise it wouldn't charge properly when it's turned off.
So now I use schedule to turn it off before I go to sleep, and to turn on before I wake up, so it would charge while I'm sleeping. Anyone's got any ideas how to fix it?
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Well I solved it with reinstall
Finally I've lost my patience so I tried the only thing that was left.
First I did a backup with TWRP.
Then, factory reset from TWRP.
Then, restore system from One Touch Upgrade 2.8.0 - lost the DUAL capability, software restored to 4.0.4.
Now comes the interesting part. It had the same problem as before, did not charge while on. So I tried a solution I found online a while ago but I never tried when on 4.1.1: Turn it off, connect charger, remove battery, wait a bit, press power button for approx 10 sec (nothing hapens), wait a bit, instert battery, turn it on and there it is. I'm not sure if it was this procedure that did the trick or it simply needed a reboot after update but it worked. It showed "charging" in battery stats.
Finally, restore with TWRP as Kuano explained in his post. Mind you, when I did the restore it was connected to my PC all the time.
Now two things I you should know:
First, before I did all this I connected it to my PC while turned off i.e. (PC - ON, phone - OFF). I noticed this: it was constantly connecting and disconnecting (the "piano chord" notification was coming from the computer speakers every 5 sec) like I was pulling the cable in and out. That is all I know about this, I didn't have the nerves to work on it.
Second, now that it is restored and charging, when I connected it to PC it couldn't change USB setting from Charge to MTP. It reported an error something like "service stopped". This happened only once and I did not try to do it again, I just don't have the energy for any more problem fixing right now. It charges, and I use airdroid for file transfer, that is all I need for now. If and when I get around to take a look at it I'll post here if there's something interesting.
Hi,
I came across a charging problem recently (happened all of a sudden, no clue why it is happening). My phone(m2 max pro) charges only I turn it off, when turned on the USB connection is not even recognized.
So, the only way to charge my phone is to switch it off!. This appears to be not so very rare problem, there are few posts out there (with different phones) complaining the same problem, but no working solution yet.
Few things:
1. Current rom is Arrow OS(m2 max pro), Android Pie.
2. Restarting the phone with the charger connected helps. The USB will still not be recognized though, but the phone charges(although, it charges slowly, the lockscreen shows - "charging slowly").
But, If I later disconnect and reconnect the charger it won't charge anymore, I have to restart with charger connected again.
3. Tried cleaning the USB port, tried clean flashing the rom(even with a different one), did not work.
5. Tried moving/adjusting the pin in the USB port slightly (recommended in one of the posts), did not work. Although, I didn't fiddle around this much, afraid I might damage the pin/port, will try again.
6. Tried draining it off completely to 0% until it auto shuts off and then charge it until 100% (this was recommended in one of the posts), did not work.
7. Tried different USB cables and ports(including original charger and wall port), did not work. I don't think this is a problem with cables/port.
I still think this was some kind of software problem, I hoped clean flashing the rom will fix this but was surprised to see that it does not!. or is it a hardware problem?
Anyone has a fix for this or seeing same symptoms(If so, how did you get around this)?
Thank you.
This is fixed now, after caliberating the battery(with a rooted app)
-> Rooted the phone(installed magisk), wiped cache and rebooted.
-> Installed Battery caliberation app[ROOT] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/...ot.superthomaslab.batterycalibration&hl=en_IN) and caliberated the battery.
-> Did a reboot and the problem went away
I didn't even had to wait until 100% to caliberate the battery (but the app recommeds so)
[EDIT]
The problem came back after a while, now its kinda randomly happening, most of the times it seems to work fine.
But, then again, it only charges, it does not recognize USB connection(to PC, which I used to connect to successfully previously), I don't see the "touch for more usb options" notification either. A workaround to this is to change the default usb configuration(in developer tools) to a different one (I am switching between File transfer, No data transfer, PTP), but as soon as you disconnect and reconnect the problem resurfaces (you'll have to again switch the default usb configuration and then reconnect)
I am perplexed!, I thought this is clearly a software issue and I hoped it would go away if I clean flash rom (the exact same build which worked fine previously, also cleared everything including vendor partition and excluding external sd card)