Hi guys, my phone is flashed so I guess that will make this whole process painful...
But here is the story, I have omega version 12.1 I think (maybe 11 or 13) it has been on my phone for 1 + months now, so I am fairly certain it isn't anything to do with firmware. Phone wont turn on, wont go into download mode or anything. I have tried taking the battery out and leaving it out for 5 minutes, still nothing.
It was working fine before I went to bed, had 10 percent battery and was just on home screen when I put it on charge, not in app or anything. Then seems to be hard bricked after waking up, so happened sometime overnight.
I am not with a carrier, brought it locally outright at my local consumers electronics store (JB-HI-FI)
Since it is hard bricked to the point it wont turn on in download mode does that mean there is no way for them to know it is flashed unless they fix it (in which all is ok)?
Never done a warranty return, do I just take it into store and they send it off? How long will this take?
On top of all this I cut my old sim doown using a cutting template, and it appeared to slide in fine, but after trying to remove it today the push eject isn't working, and tips to get this out, doesn't appear to be enough room to grip it with tweesers.
Thanks.
So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
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So as we keep on saying in all posts, the next step u have to make is try with an usb jig.
U know what is that?
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No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
Nicholas68 said:
No, have never heard of one. Just talked to samsung live chat and they said to have a proper diagnostic to take it down to a service centre, would anyone recommend this, or try this jig thing first?
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Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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JiroPrinz8 said:
Since it's already harbricked, i'd say just turn it in and let Samsung fix it for you. It is under warranty, and last time i brought in my i9000 that I bricked, they just replaced the phone. the jig is ok only if you already know where to get one or how to make one, but if you have to go out of your way for it, just use the warranty.
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Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Nope brisbane here, thanks for the offer though. What would the chances be of a JIG fixing it though, cause I have a feeling the mainboard has died. Kinda wish I didn't turn off the red LED charging light, apparently some others who's phones hardbricked the light still turned on showing some sign of life.
Any suggestions on sorting out the micro sim card issue now, assume I have to get it our before taking it to service centre, or just leave it in for them to fix?
priyana said:
I ordered my jig from ebay from overseas but it arrived in a few days.
I am in Melbourne city btw, pm me if you are too. I can lend you mine.
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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Does the jig work on s3? I have an old one from s2 and if I'm not wrong is not working on s3...
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-it will force the S3 in download mode
BUT
-it will not reset the flash counter like with S2
Got a little bit of good news, this might help other people out with jammed sim cards, NO damage and worked like a treat.
In the top of the sim card holder down the bottom left there is a little circle around one mill wide, got a sharp thumbtack and pushed it gentelly into the sim card, the just applied a little pressure and the sim card started to slide up, was very easy, had a great grip on the sim cad and no damage done trying to grab it with needle nose pliers like I read elsewhere, now to get the phone replaced or unbricked.
Thinking about it more I think it is a hardware fault, cause I had flashed the correct version of omega for international S3, I havn't had any wrong signs like freezing or crashing, been working flawlessly for over a month, then out of the blue completely dead. So I think I will just go into the service centre and tell them I suspect the motherboard has died, or the charger port (didn't charge over night), dont have a spare battery to test with though).
http://lifehacker.com/5940308/save-a-bricked-phone-using-paper-clips-and-pencil-graphite
Just a post tyat i found today..not sure if it ll work or not.
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That video is pretty cool, don't have an old connector to try it, but seeing as my phone didn't hard brick from a flash going wrong while flashing or wrong firmware or anything I have a feeling a JIG or similar wont work. Would try it if I had the connector though.
How often do batterys and charger ports fail, cause that could be another reason I guess.
Nicholas68 said:
Ok, Think that is best, can't really go without phone for 2-3 weeks while waiting for a JIG to arrive.
Just a few questions about the service centre, do you think they will ask me if I have flashed the phone? Cause I'm afraid they will think the brick was caused by that (could be) but probably unlikely since it died during the night a month after its latest flash.
If they do get it working will they go in and check the flash counter? Then what happens?
And lastly, if they ask me if I have flashed it should I lie and say no?
Thanks for the help.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Exactly. There were no problems with the flashing part, i think ypu have a hardware issue.
They didn't ask me anything really, just asked what happened prior to the phone dying.
But i was ready to lie my ass off.. lol!
Dont say anything about flashing. They wont even bother trying to flash the phone if they dont get it into download mode.
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Ok, thanks for the info, I've tried everything besides a JIG to try get it into a download mode, so I doubt they will get it into download mode, Ive seen a couple of other cases where the S3 has had a mainboard issue, only other thing is in the last week I have been using the wall charger where as I normally use the computer and usb, so not sure if this could link to it though, might have got a power surge, but had no storms in months so unlikely and the fuse box is modern with pretty good protection. Ill just go in and tell them it was working one night, and dead when I woke up the next morning, which is the truth. And if they ask if its flashed, ill miss understand them and say, not the screen wasn't flashing/flickering when it died, I was asleep
Reality is though if they get the phone to a restored point to where they can see the flash counter, then I no longer need their help to fix it.
One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
Thanks
I'd give the jig a chance. Just imho.
Btw it is very likely that the jig would arrive in, like, 24-48 hours if you choose the right seller, while other users already told you it's probably gonna take more then a few days (probably from 2 weeks to a month) for samsung to "close the ticket". In my experience only with apple you'd be up and running in less then a week.
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One more question. At the service centres do they try fix it while I'm there, or do they tell s to come back in a few hours, or do they ring a few days later. And if they can't get it in download mode do they normally give you a replacement there? Or do they ship it off to get parts replaced and then ship it back taking weeks/months?
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I'm sure they will ask you to come back in a few days or even weeks. Don't think they will replace new unit for you. They will just replace the faulty part.
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I have the same issue so thought i would post here rather than starting a new thread.
Here's the story for mine. Working fine on current rom for about a month no issues at all. Today battery got to about 9% then switched off and i haven't been able to get it to turn on again, no download mode,no recovery, no charging led nothing at all.
I had to change my screen a couple of days ago, has been working fine with the broken screen for months, have i now voided my warranty?
A lot of faulty s3 i think... My s3 suddenly died last night. Battery is around 90+. Check the phone and it's not responding. Power button doesn't work. Doesn't even go to download mode or recovery mode. I'm running on stock ICS with root only. Sad part is I don't have any access for a jig right now. So can't test it. Bought this phone in SG and I'm in the Philippines right now. Warranty is good for SG only. Dec would be my next trip back to SG. By then no S3 as of now. For a phone I'm getting depressed LOL!
over the air jellybean brick my phone unrooted unflashed phone
BEWARE EVERYONE!! when updating to jellybean some do go very wrong! not all! but some do!! and it will brick your phone!! i updated over the air.. and for a few days. my phone kept on freezing! and locking up! one night i went to bed woke up and the phone was stuck on the boot screen! i thought thats weird took battery out, put back in, as ya do.. nothing took sim out and back in nothing... so only option was to reapair it through kies. put serial in and model number in it found the sortware. i downloaded it. told me to put phone in recovery mode.. so i did,kies said it was gonna install it to my phone.. but everytime it tryed to install it kept on saying it couldnt find my phone.. i tryed this all day long used different usb ports. different computers. to know avail, so my only option was to take it in for repair.. so i took it back to phones 4 u! they sent it away, i waited over 2 weeks! which was undiscrible it was like i lost my right arm with no phone! as you can imagine.. than the repair center turned round and said that the phone has been rooted! which it hadnt!! and they said this in order to brake the terms and conditions of my warentee so phones 4 u can get out of giving me a new handset. so they all save money!! i wouldnt do that to a 500 pound phone!! the phone does everything you could want from a phone! im launching a full investigation into this matter.. and have writen a formall complaint to phones 4 u headoffice, and will be contacting trading standards, ofcom, watchdog, and the ombudsman, and plaster it on all the forums ,social networking sights i can think of, to give them as much bad press as possible!! untill my problem is resolved and i will restore there name and clear it once they have done the right thing by me
I am afraid I can also report a bricked S3 here.
Rooted two weeks ago, but did not yet install a rom. Didn't Triangleaway yet aswell.
Same problem as described, I was browsing the net, and suddenly, screen went black (off). Could not get it powered on anymore. (nor in download/recovery mode)
So i brought it to the local telecom service center of my office, they could tell me the battery was fine and the buttons were working but they never saw one in this state.
So they are sending it to a samsung repair company.
This was two days ago, heard nothing yet, but I am very curious if I will get repaired or if I need to pay because of the rooting.
Will post the result if I know more.
Does anyone know if this problem also happens to people who did not root?
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I bricked my Note, I was flashing cwm based recovery when it hung, screen went black and sat there for about 15 minutes before I decided to do the dumb thing of pulling the battery. Now it won't turn on, but there's good news! I hope. I get a driver sound and error when plugging it in, so it is recognizable. When checking Computer Management, I show a QHUSB_DLOAD under Other but the phone won't connect at all. Any ideas?
Have you tried putting it in download mode and see if Odin recognizes it?
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On my vibrant and my behold 2 (both Samsung devices)
I took out the battery and plugged the USB in while holding the buttons for dl mode and it would get out of the soft brick. Once it goes into dl mode, pop the battery in, Odin should recognize it, and flash away.
Don't know if it will work, but it sounds like you didn't hard brick it
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It won't turn on to get into DL mode. I tried to see if Odin would see it but nope. I was hoping there was another driver to allow it to see it.
Thanks for the idea, it didn't boot though. It tries, it makes the sound of the USB being inserted but then makes the error sound for failed drivers. I wouldn't think it's a hard brick either, but even my JIG won't get it to boot.
i had a hard brick after flashing a kernel. not sure what the problem was but it wouldnt go into download mode, so i pulled the battery for about 5 minutes and it went into download mode and odin recognized my phone.
Would the phone turn on? I'll give it a try. I've left it out for 30 seconds and that didn't work, I'll let it go longer.
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Would the phone turn on? I'll give it a try. I've left it out for 30 seconds and that didn't work, I'll let it go longer.
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Mine wouldnt turn on when i did a battery pull quickly, But after i left mine out it went into download mode, at this point trying anything is better than nothing. hope it works out for you
I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
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I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
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just take back to best buy and tell them that the phone won't come on, do not tell them that you did anything just tell them you had your phone on the charger over night and it wouldnt come on in the morning. i hope you more time left on your thirty days i did that a lot of time lol.
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just take back to best buy and tell them that the phone won't come on, do not tell them that you did anything just tell them you had your phone on the charger over night and it wouldnt come on in the morning. i hope you more time left on your thirty days i did that a lot of time lol.
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That's what I planned on doing. lol. If nothing else, I could sign up for their black tie program, come back monday during my lunch and get it swapped then and they could say nothing about it.
An update on the situation, I left the battery out of the phone overnight and tested it when I woke up, nothing. So I took the phone to BB and they said they wouldn't take it back unless I wanted to spend $170 to replace it. I took it to AT&T and they did everything they thought would get it to work, it wouldn't naturally, so they warrantied it and I have a new one coming in a few days.
Radioshack insurance way better then crapy bestbuy. Which is why i buy mine there and att deductiables to high when u use their insurance
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Radioshack insurance way better then crapy bestbuy. Which is why i buy mine there and att deductiables to high when u use their insurance
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Ive never heard of anyone getting radioshacks insurance and I sell phones. A quick google search on their protection showed class action suits against them for misrepresenting their protection. Oh and it's more expesive them best buys lol
And to the OP, you could have also done the monthly best buy protection instead of the 170 2 year plan, they could have also replaced it under manufacturers warranty for your situation. I hate when people work for the same company as me and are uneducated at their jobs.
Glad all is well but for future reference what should you have done? I mean, if i flash something and it goes wrong, the first thing I'd do would be pull the battery. What should we do?
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Glad all is well but for future reference what should you have done? I mean, if i flash something and it goes wrong, the first thing I'd do would be pull the battery. What should we do?
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I was wondering about that also. I just want to know so I won't do the same thing. I'm glad the OP got it straightened out.
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i had a hard brick after flashing a kernel. not sure what the problem was but it wouldnt go into download mode, so i pulled the battery for about 5 minutes and it went into download mode and odin recognized my phone.
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If you were hard bricked, your phone wouldn't have booted. A hard brick is a permanent thing. What you had was a soft brick.
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Dacian said:
I left it out for awhile, I think I'll see if Best Buy will give me a new phone tomorrow. I just found a thread on the other note side that had this same issue, he ended up not being able to fix it too. Thanks for trying to help though, it's what makes XDA what it is.
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Best Buy is pretty good about exchanges. Whatever you do, DON'T tell them what you did. Just say your phone got really hot, froze, and wouldn't turn back on again.
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An update on the situation, I left the battery out of the phone overnight and tested it when I woke up, nothing. So I took the phone to BB and they said they wouldn't take it back unless I wanted to spend $170 to replace it. I took it to AT&T and they did everything they thought would get it to work, it wouldn't naturally, so they warrantied it and I have a new one coming in a few days.
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Good to hear!! Glad you got everything worked out.
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Hi guys/girls of XDA.
I've been happily running my Galaxy S 2 with CM9 for some time.
I've just yesterday changed to the latest nightly. Had used the Battery Calibration market app, just so i can get the maximum use out of my extended battery (i still seemed to get regular usage out of the battery). Made sure the triangle was gone with Triangle Away. All was swell.
Untill today, I attempted to check out the beats audio plugin.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525226
I flashed through CWM as you usually do for these things, once this was done, and rebooted fine, I noticed some niggling issues.
My SD card wasn't mounted. Mounted it again. Was working fine. My audiobook decided to crash on me, and the phone froze.
Thought it might be a good idea to get into Recovery and flash over the latest nightly again clearing the mess i put on my phone. SD wasn't mounted again, mounted and confirmed working.
Flashing of ROM would not work.
Sat at installing for about 10+ minutes.
Pulled battery.
Now i'm unable to get into Recovery or Download mode.
I believe I've Soft/Hardbricked. But I can't confirm it.
Any ideas?
(My sig isn't up to date, and i cbf updating it)
Try a usb jig
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I was thinking that would be the first answer.
I don't have one, might have to check Ebay, unless there is a local seller in Aus.
Pull battery, wait for 5 minutes
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Pull battery, wait for 5 minutes
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Already tried.
Attempting to turn it on after this period has no effect, and nothing shows on the screen.
(After some time pressing the power button, it starts to get hot around the camera)
If you can't get into download mode at all/phone won't turn on your last (slim) chance is a jig. If the jig doesn't work you have two options:-
1) JTAG repair by 3rd party repairer (probably cheaper option)
2) Repair by Samsung (probably more expensive option)
But definitely try the jig before you go down that route. You never know.
I think usb jig will solve your problem and you can make your own usb jig indeed. It is just a 300k resistor which is soldered between the fourth and the fifth legs of a micro usb socket.
You can find lots of videos and schemes showing how to do it. I think it is better to
make your own usb jig then waiting your internet order.
I hope you can get your phone back soon.
Looks like i'll try a JIG asap.
Then look for a JTAG repairer in adelaide.
Will keep you guys posted.
There's a thread in General where people have offered to let other people use their jigs. Might be worth a look to see if there's someone in Radelaide who can help, would be surprised if there isn't.
Might save you waiting for jig in the post (assuming you don't already have one/aren't confident enough to make your own); if you do borrow a jig & it works you get your phone back earlier & if it doesn't work, at least you can then focus on getting it fixed.
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Looks like i'll try a JIG asap.
Then look for a JTAG repairer in adelaide.
Will keep you guys posted.
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Thanks Mistah, i'll do that
Edit;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1495867
Nobody in Adelaide it seems.
Really ? Bugger Do a Google search along the lines of "Samsung Galaxy S2 jig eBay location Australia". That should yield you a seller within Australia which will save you a heap of postage time. I got mine from Hong Kong (relatively close) & it took 8 calendar days.
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Thanks Mistah, i'll do that
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Nobody in Adelaide it seems.
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Google is your friend...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/viewitem?itemId=250824932765
granted you can pick these up for $2, but I don't think that's important to you right now.
I'm in Sydney, let me know if you are really stuck getting a hold of one.
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Google is your friend...
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/viewitem?itemId=250824932765
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That's cool and all, I just purchased a couple online.
Google didn't help in my searching locally, due to desperation over the issue.
Waiting on some friends to get back to me, but i'll see how it goes.
try to make a picture from it
Well, after waiting on packages to arrive.
The phone will not respond to a USB Jig. (I ordered a couple, and none work, i'm on ICS bootloaders I believe, and it won't respond)
Have sent the phone off to http://www.themobilephoneclinic.com.au
(They do JTAG services in Melbourne)
I've found out something on the motherboard is fried, and they can't perform a JTAG on my phone.
Replacing the motherboard will cost about $275 to replace, so my dead phone is on it's way back to me, dead
Sad day.
Time to start saving for the S3 i think.
So randomly using it it froze and shut off. Now it wont boot at ALL. Nothing! Will Samsung fix this problem? It sucks not having my note! Wont get into download mode and wont be recognized by PC. Doesn't even vibrate when I try to turn it on!
They will fix it if not ill sell u a working motherboard
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Eric-1987 said:
So randomly using it it froze and shut off. Now it wont boot at ALL. Nothing! Will Samsung fix this problem? It sucks not having my note! Wont get into download mode and wont be recognized by PC. Doesn't even vibrate when I try to turn it on!
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Warranty. Tell your provider you woke up and it was like that.
Maybe try charging your battery? I've read stories where the battery was dead, had to charge for like 6 hours before phone responded. I know, simple but you never know... good luck to you!
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This same thing happened to me with my GSII last month. Don't worry- as long as it's within the 1yr warranty, Samsung WILL fix it for free
Just give them a call & explain what happened. They'll email you a paid shipping label so you can send it to them, and you should get it back within a couple weeks tops. Turnaround time is pretty good, I think I had my phone back within 10 days.
Curoius what rom and kernel where you using? just in case I see this again?
Agreed ....the rom info would be good ...g
I was using the latest PA at the time 25th I think and DaG's Xa kernel. Going to hit up samsung here soon. I am on a ****ty mytouch 3g slide right now.
First thing to try is to get battery out of phone and charge with external chargers, ( external battery travel charger) , which might give battery new life.
If not, go to Samsung, we all are in warranty as its not been year yet for Galaxy Note in North America. And not to worry about custom Rom, bcoz phone is dead.
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The phone is completely dead battery isnt the issue. I wish it was that simple.
I had the exact same problem while trying to flash a job ROM. Sent into Samsung Canada and got a brand new replacement a week later.
Good luck and don't worry you should be fine.
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Send it off for a new one brother ....
You'll get a shiney new one in a week ...
And don't fall in love with that mytouch ....LOL ......sorry ....g
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have you tried starting it in download mode?
so any updates eric?...
I haven't gotten around to sending it out yet as I am in the process of a move. As soon as I have updates I'll let everyone know.
my note i wiped EVERYTHING then installed at&t version of liquid rom and gapps now phone wont even turn on to samsung logo i tried inserting the battery holding power and volume nothing, plug it into pc it randomly shows sd card for a sec then vanishes is it DEAD? i mean is warranty going to be able to revive it and see i had custom rom or if they can fix it it will wipe it and they wont see? thanks
Leo, PM moose. The same thing happen to him. He will explain to you what you did and how to take care of it.
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Leo, PM moose. The same thing happen to him. He will explain to you what you did and how to take care of it.
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im looking for him cant find him to pm him can you link me please? EDIT i found him appears he is offline right now can this be fixed or is it bricked hard enough at&t warranty wont see i had custom rom on it?
BTW if anyone was wondering randomly one day I pulled out my phone and put it on the charger and it started charging. Thats how I fixed my phone.
I have been running Siyah 1.7rc1 dual booting Omega v30 as primary and AOKP milestone 1 as secondary. I also have the 4.2 camera and keyboard mods installed. The phone has been working fine until last night.
Last night the phone was fully charged. This morning the phone was off and wouldn't turn on when I pressed the power button. Hoping it was just a depleted battery, I put the phone on the charger for a couple of hours. However, it still won't turn on. I can't get to either recovery mode or download mode with the vol_up+home+power or the vol_down+home+power.
There is no reaction from the phone to any combination of buttons. I have removed the battery a few times with the same results.
Does anyone have any ideas? I might try and see if Samsung service can fix this but wanted to know if there was any advise from XDA.
Well if you do want to go to samsung service """ you have a freaking rooted phone bro"""""",,,BTW your phone is dead.
As repair is chargeable i would first try a new battery or borrow one and a USB jig to boot to recovery mode .
jje
*sob*
Mine has gone exactly the same way.
Had it on charge. Took it off charge and checked emails then left it on my desk. Came back 30 minutes later, picked it up and phone was completely dead.
No light when plugged into a charger, phone won't power on.
Plugged it into a computer, no luck.
Different chargers, different cables, no luck.
Tried a USB jig, no luck.
I've NOT tried a new battery yet, that's next on my list. I suspect this won't make any difference either.
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
LemonPlusTea said:
I suggest you send it to samsung bro.
happened to my phone too.
They won't find out you rooted/have custom ROM etc, cause this is caused by hardware failure. They'll need to replace it to get it to boot, so they can't tell if you rooted or not.
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take it back to the shop first, if you havent had it too long them may just swap it out. If not then they will send it back for you and should lend you candybar phone to use if you leave them a deposit (depends on the shop though).
Sammy wont even both to check if its been rooted, they will just replace it.
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
zaphy42 said:
Thanks both. I'm going to send it straight to Samsung as soon as I've found proof of warranty. Hopefully it won't take too long to sort out.
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Like i said its a paid for repair .
Totally dead mobo that requires change you will probably get away with warranty .
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I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
randombrick said:
I did try using a friend's battery. No go. I saw another thread on XDA where a bunch of people seem to have hit the same problem in the last week. I am wondering if it is some time-triggerred bug?
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I've just got round to trying a friends battery too. Likewise, no go.
I think it's probably more likely a design flaw on Samsungs part.
I wonder if they've produced a different revision of the S3 circuit board to fix it? I've heard on other threads that Samsung just replace the system board when it's sent back for warranty repair...
Well there certainly has been quite a lot of them over the last 4 weeks or so. Probably some sub-standard motherboards found their way into the production line every now and then (given the number of units produced), or a design flaw as noted above. It's going to be a reasonably expensive exercise for Samsung if they end up having to replace a lot of them though...
I just hope that the new one they put in my phone isn't going to commit suicide again in 4 months time
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I have the exact problem.
But it was my fault in this case. Flashed an "unmatched" md5 file of WanamLite.
It booted up normally. Then i proceeded installing TiBu & restore apps. After 10mins, i came back with a dead phone.
After some googling & advice from phone shops, there's a possibility that the motherboard may be fried.
I sent to Samsung Service Centre, and within 2 working days, my S3 is alive.
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So my S3 got the dreaded sudden death for the second time....I wasn't rooted the first time it happened, but this time I was rooted. Will they be able to tell I did this when it goes for repair, or because it's completely dead they wont know? Cheers.
frasefrase said:
So my S3 got the dreaded sudden death for the second time....I wasn't rooted the first time it happened, but this time I was rooted. Will they be able to tell I did this when it goes for repair, or because it's completely dead they wont know? Cheers.
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My guess is they will not see it as they probably have to replace the motherboard anyway and afterwards reflash the latest stock firmware.
frasefrase said:
So my S3 got the dreaded sudden death for the second time....I wasn't rooted the first time it happened, but this time I was rooted. Will they be able to tell I did this when it goes for repair, or because it's completely dead they wont know? Cheers.
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They won't find out
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Flash the latest ROM from sammobile right away if you don't want this to happen a third time
Can you go to download mode?
And which HW rev was second mainboard? How much time from first SDS?
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Can you go to download mode?
And which HW rev was second mainboard? How much time from first SDS?
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No, can't get into download mode. No idea what HW revision was on 2nd mainboard. Got my s3 mid June, 1st SDS was October, 2nd one the other day, so 3 months inbetween. Cheers
frasefrase said:
No, can't get into download mode. No idea what HW revision was on 2nd mainboard. Got my s3 mid June, 1st SDS was October, 2nd one the other day, so 3 months inbetween. Cheers
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In that case, you should not have any problem with warranty....
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if it's sudden death and seems to be a brick :cyclops: they prolly will just swap it out, so don't worry. i'm not sure how samsung warranty works but i think a lot of people very ofthen don't try to repair your device they give you a replacement so your waiting time becomes a lot shorter. they take your phone give you a replacement once they know your device needs serious repair, get your phone fixed later and give it to someone else who needs a replacement, that's how i know Sony does it with the Playstation and it's a really good Idea.
Another thing i was wondering is. If you have a phone and it's got some issued and they piss you off but phone still more or less working. Many times they don't take you serious and just do some Factory Reset bla bla and give it back. in such cases would it be an idea to just hardbrick your phone (flash wrong rom). will they then give you another phone? Or will they try to see if you did it yourself?
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Pure Drive GT said:
if it's sudden death and seems to be a brick :cyclops: they prolly will just swap it out, so don't worry. i'm not sure how samsung warranty works but i think a lot of people very ofthen don't try to repair your device they give you a replacement so your waiting time becomes a lot shorter. they take your phone give you a replacement once they know your device needs serious repair, get your phone fixed later and give it to someone else who needs a replacement, that's how i know Sony does it with the Playstation and it's a really good Idea.
Another thing i was wondering is. If you have a phone and it's got some issued and they piss you off but phone still more or less working. Many times they don't take you serious and just do some Factory Reset bla bla and give it back. in such cases would it be an idea to just hardbrick your phone (flash wrong rom). will they then give you another phone? Or will they try to see if you did it yourself?
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They will either repair or replace the handset, just had the screen of death on a flashed and rooted phone (flash count was on 3) took it in to P4U and it was sent for repair,got it back 2 weeks later with a new board in it. I assume that they just swap it out as it is not possible to get power into it so can't check anything.
Guys is dead phone means that your phone just goes blank and doesnt on unless you take off the battery and reboot then maybe i have cause my phone been going blank for a few times now:confused
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Guys is dead phone means that your phone just goes blank and doesnt on unless you take off the battery and reboot then maybe i have cause my phone been going blank for a few times now:confused
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No, take look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1993044