So I've had Razr Maxx and it's been rooted for like 6 or 8 months. Yesterday received a call and when I hit End to end the call, the phone shut down and would not boot again. Plug in charger, the battery symbol showed ? and that was it.
Verizon sent me a new one today and it's loading just fine but now I have to root and the bad is the tether does not work. So apparently if you get a new phone you don't get free tether any longer.....
I have just experienced a similar problem.
While texting my new number to some contacts on my list, I received a call. I accepted it and when the call was ended, even before I could press anything, the phone just froze dead.
I have tried holding the power button to get it to shut down so I might try rebooting it, but no reaction at all.
Phone was 20 hours old. :crying:
I rooted it yesterday and installed the BootMenuManager from whirleyes, but still had the original ICS the phone was delivered with running.
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Update: Strange: after 4 hours the force turn off (hold menu button + vol up/down) suddenly worked and phone booted up just fine.
Don't know what to make of this but I'm glad.
I wish my luck had gone your way... Phone numbers/address/pics/ and the like aren't a biggie as I had them backed up.... What sucked was the months and months of playing Sentinel 3 and I had every single level beat other than Hard and Insane on the last level....
And having it just the way I wanted as far as looks went without a rom or theme....
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Hey there guys just came from the Samsung Captivate and ended up here with Moto Droid Razr. The problem the first phone I got reboots on it's own and I had to end up manually turning it back on, this happened a least 3 times before I returned it. The replacement phone was complete stock nothing was flashed like the first one. This second one worked for a day no reboots but on the second day I picked it up thought it had entered stand by, pushed the standby power button nothing. The phone shut down completely and no matter what I tried I didn't get it to turn on including the Volume down and power button. Plugged the phone into the charger nothing, plugged it into the computer via USB nothing but a white LED light turned on. Pushed the power button and volume down, up both buttons nothing worked. Did anyone else encounter these problems or am I just this lucky getting two phones completely different in defects? I hope the third one works because this is starting to really question the reliability of this phone.
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Hey there guys just came from the Samsung Captivate and ended up here with Moto Droid Razr. The problem the first phone I got reboots on it's own and I had to end up manually turning it back on, this happened a least 3 times before I returned it. The replacement phone was complete stock nothing was flashed like the first one. This second one worked for a day no reboots but on the second day I picked it up thought it had entered stand by, pushed the standby power button nothing. The phone shut down completely and no matter what I tried I didn't get it to turn on including the Volume down and power button. Plugged the phone into the charger nothing, plugged it into the computer via USB nothing but a white LED light turned on. Pushed the power button and volume down, up both buttons nothing worked. Did anyone else encounter these problems or am I just this lucky getting two phones completely different in defects? I hope the third one works because this is starting to really question the reliability of this phone.
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I've had my phone for a month now, and haven't had an auto re-boot yet.....
Sounds like you just got unlucky, as the people I've talked to that have this phone, have been great with reliability. That's very odd that you're having this issue.
Now, I am on Verizon, so the units I've seen are all the XT912 units, and the Roger's one is an XT910. I've been reading more and more about the XT910's seeming to have more issues, at least that's the impression I get from the online community.
You're probably right that the XT910 has more issues, it's also only 4G version from what I can see through Rogers. I think the Xt912 is the LTE version of the phone, I wish we had that phone instead. Rogers is rolling out LTE in Canada and I would of thought they would carry the XT912 instead. Well who knows mayber Rogers has something else in store like the newer version the Maxx. Like I told the CSR if the third phone is the same I have no choice but to exchange it for some other device maybe the Samsung S II LTE. I mean that phone only has a 800X400 AMOLED screen so low res compared to the Razr. I'm not sure why Rogers still don't carry the Nexus but again Bell here likes to have the exclusive rights to new phones much like what other US carriers like to do. Oh well we'll have to see my phone arrives today and I'll give it another shot.
After having the origional HTC Amaze i purchased sent back to TMobile due to my WiFi not working, they sent me a referbished one. 3-5 days ago my phone began to shut off at random times. But tonight it shut off, and when I went to turn it back on, it vibrated like it should but the screen stay black (No Tmobile splash or anything). I proceeded to remove the battery for 30 seconds (counting by mississippi's) and reinserted the battery. Again, it vibrated like it would turn on, yet the screen stayed black. I retried this process multiple times to no avail. I read on another thread that i should plug it in for 30-45 minutes incase the battery is dead. Upon plugging it in, the charge light booted orange like it should, but went out and the phone will vibrate like its booting, pause for 60 seconds and vibrate again.
I tried to factory reset it (Hold down the volume down key and press the power button) And it again stayed black and vibrated like it was trying to turn on, but the screen stayed black.
Im not worried about anything on the phone being lost or destroyed. I never tried to root it or anything, i just put music on it.
If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated.
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After having the origional HTC Amaze i purchased sent back to TMobile due to my WiFi not working, they sent me a referbished one. 3-5 days ago my phone began to shut off at random times. But tonight it shut off, and when........... ..
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How long ago did you send it to tmo for the replacement? I would just send it in for another replacement if you are still within the time frame. If you never rooted it or modified it then it has to be a hardware problem or maybe try a different battery
Maybe 3 months ago? I don't have insurance but the funny thing is, it started happening when i downloaded a software update
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Maybe 3 months ago? I don't have insurance but the funny thing is, it started happening when i downloaded a software update
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If the device wont turn on, there is really no troubleshooting you can do besides trying a different battery. Call t-mobile and if they won't help you call htc directly, they have a 1 year limited warranty (i think it cant have any physical damage like its been dropped or anything)
I'm completely at a loss here. I was running a 4.3 rom for the past week or two with no issues. Pulled my phone out of my pocket 30 min ago, hit the power button and the screen wouldn't light up. I tried it again and still no go. I tried swiping to unlock, even with the black screen and i felt it vibrate.
Ever since then my phone is non responsive. I can't get it to boot, can't hard reset it, nothing. The vibrates stop when I'm holding down power and down volume but that's about it. I timed the constant vibrates and they happen every 34 seconds according to the Win8 clock (which i've heard in inaccurate).
I'm gonna let the battery drain and hope that it will boot back up after it dies...but until then, any ideas?
Try plugging it into your computer and see what comes up. Which 4.3 ROM were you on?
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Try plugging it into your computer and see what comes up. Which 4.3 ROM were you on?
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That's the first thing I tried. I get nothing when i plug it into my comp. Nothing pops up in device manager. The comp doesn't detect it at all.
And I was running the 8/23 release of carbon 4.3 and I didn't have one problem with it until this happened :\
EDIT: The phone's battery finally ran out. It stopped vibrating and after a bit i plugged it in. After a few min it just starting doing it again.
I disassembled the phone and removed the battery for awhile hoping it would somehow help. Didn't do anything. It showed the flashing charge light (like when it's really low) for maybe a minute then it stop lighting up at all. Sometimes if i leave it unplugged for a bit and plug it back in it will flash the light again. That's about all I'm getting out of it now.
I'm thinking something failed internally. It happened while it was on and I was using it so there's no possibility that it was from a flash or anything like that.
Took my phone to the sprint store. The tech wasn't sure either but he thought it might be the screen that died. The vibrating could be the phone trying to boot then realizing there's no screen. They took it apart to check for moisture/damage and said I'm good to go for the $50 replacement.
So my new Evo will be here Tuesday.
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Took my phone to the sprint store. The tech wasn't sure either but he thought it might be the screen that died. The vibrating could be the phone trying to boot then realizing there's no screen. They took it apart to check for moisture/damage and said I'm good to go for the $50 replacement.
So my new Evo will be here Tuesday.
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did you resolved it i'm having same had same issue as you mine is htc sensation but think is the same thing ive replacet the digitizer some day ago and it was working very good untill it start to vibrate and than died, now it flashes an orange light when i try to charge and after a while stops but i cant power it on nothing hapens when i press power button
Did you resolve the issue?
Did you ever resolve this issue? My Evo LTE started doing the exact same thing this evening and all of the Sprint stores are closed until tomorrow. I figure it's something internal that died and I can't see what it's trying to do... I guess you just got the replacement and didn't ever get it resolved with that particular phone?
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I'm completely at a loss here. I was running a 4.3 rom for the past week or two with no issues. Pulled my phone out of my pocket 30 min ago, hit the power button and the screen wouldn't light up. I tried it again and still no go. I tried swiping to unlock, even with the black screen and i felt it vibrate.
Ever since then my phone is non responsive. I can't get it to boot, can't hard reset it, nothing. The vibrates stop when I'm holding down power and down volume but that's about it. I timed the constant vibrates and they happen every 34 seconds according to the Win8 clock (which i've heard in inaccurate).
I'm gonna let the battery drain and hope that it will boot back up after it dies...but until then, any ideas?
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Hey guys, i'm having problems with my GS3 i9300 which all started on Sunday. I'll try to list all the problems as best as i can and when they started and stopped happening.
At the time of this happening i was rooted and using the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 rc1 and was using it previously for the past month or with no problems and had not recently installed any new apps other than swift key.
Only problem on Sunday was i charged my phone over night for about 11-12 hours and it wasn't full charged and the notification light was red for some reason.
On Monday evening when i was driving home in the evening my phone started to beep every few minutes and it was a beep i had never heard before so when i took a look at the screen it showed the driving mode symbol which i think was like a steering wheel (didnt know it was even on cyanogenmod).
That happened for about 10 mins until i restarted my phone.
Then i got woken up by my phone about 3 times in the early hours of tuesday morning because it just started to play my music for no reason so i tuned it off until it was time for me to wake up.
All through tuesday my phone would keep turning off and back on at random or sometimes if i recieved a call or sent a text or changed a setting but not always and this happened every 5-10 mins or so so when i got home i updated cyanogenmod to rc2 but the same thing happened and at one time it crashed as i pushed a button and the phone was vidrating until it rebooted and went into safe mode (the first and last time it went into safemode with these peoblems) so last night about 11pm i went back to stock using odin and again it keeps turning on driving mode and s voice but only when its on charge.
Sorry for the long post but does anyone know what could be happening? Like i have said i have wiped the phone and changed the rom and even went back to stock and unrooted.
Thanks.
I think your phone touched "bad" memory blocks damaged by EMMC bug,that's why it's acts like obsessed but it will stop when it's will be completely damaged. So I suggest you to take it to warranty service center.
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If you are on a fresh 4.1.2 stock rom and the problem only happens on charge then first try another charger & lead. If it is still the same then sounds like a repair is required.
Really hope someone can help me here.
I rooted, and put CM10.2 on my phone a month or two ago (don't play that much with ROMs, etc), but fancied a change from stock.
Anyways, it's been fine (although battery life not quite as great as before, but hey ho), this evening just got a WhatsApp message, dropped the notification bar down, clicked on it to open Whats App, and the phone rebooted... And then continued to just reboot over and over after 2-3 seconds (showing the i9300 Samsung logo with the red ! in the top left).
Removing battery stops this obviously, but weirdly when I put the battery back in boots straight away, and continues to just loop like that. Holding power, home, vol up/down makes no difference (been playing with this for about an hour now, and searching other peoples solutions, someone said 5 times wait, and release). Just can't get anything other than this loop, just weird that I can't actually turn it off either.
Suggestions please?
Thanks Gunja
Booting as soon as battery is inserted indicates power button sorted out, try wiggling it or seek a repair.
Yes I believe thats the case, as I have actually got it into the "Accept different OS" mode, stays there for 2 seconds and reboots. Nothing seems physically weird about the power button.
It did the sudden die thing a few months back, and I returned it to Sammy UK and they fixed it (due to 2 year warranty) in 2 days. It's still under 2 years old, so will give them a call. Was rooted before, but didn't show the red ! in the left left. Hope that they don't mind that, as this does seem to genuinely be a physical hardware problem not software.
If you just hold the power button on the S3 when it's booted, just it just turn off eventually? How annoying, 2nd problem with it in the last 4-5 months, wonder if will get another sammy when upgrades due in a couple of months. Lets see how their support is again this time round!