Hi guys, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300, there's like a couple of days where it does not charge, or barely does, sometimes it charges about 5% in 1 or 2 hours and sometimes it does not takes charge at all..I've been looking at the internet that this problem is not so unique with this model, but I don't know what to do to get it back working properly, it was working fine when I just got it, I have it since about 1 month maybe, I read that a factory reset could fix it, or even this:
First take the battery out of the phone for about 10 seconds. Then with the battery out plug the phone up, wait a few seconds, and put the battery in and immediately press power. Should be as good as new.
But I don't know, could you please give some alternatives to try? thanks a lot!
saman0suke1 said:
Hi guys, I have a problem with my Samsung Galaxy S3 I9300, there's like a couple of days where it does not charge, or barely does, sometimes it charges about 5% in 1 or 2 hours and sometimes it does not takes charge at all..I've been looking at the internet that this problem is not so unique with this model, but I don't know what to do to get it back working properly, it was working fine when I just got it, I have it since about 1 month maybe, I read that a factory reset could fix it, or even this:
First take the battery out of the phone for about 10 seconds. Then with the battery out plug the phone up, wait a few seconds, and put the battery in and immediately press power. Should be as good as new.
But I don't know, could you please give some alternatives to try? thanks a lot!
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Are you using the original charger? Using other chargers with less output will stop it charging properly
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I was provided with an european original charger like this one:
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And I'm in America (bought from eBay, so I've been using this:
It was working fine until let's say one week ago...any advice? should I try the methods described above? did I damaged the phone? thanks!
EDIT: I rebooted the phone and seems like it's charging, but too slow in my opinion...
I had this problem last week. I coudnt figure out what the problem is but I took the battery out and put it back in after 10 secs. Fixed.
alitech said:
I had this problem last week. I coudnt figure out what the problem is but I took the battery out and put it back in after 10 secs. Fixed.
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Well, I did what you said and it's working...it's pretty weird isn't? and looking on the web, this happens a lot with the phone :S thanks! I hope it keeps working!
Problem is still there...when I first purchased this phone did not have this problem...I'm not sure but I guess it started after updating to JellyBean, has anyone suffered something similar after updating? thanks!
saman0suke1 said:
Problem is still there...when I first purchased this phone did not have this problem...I'm not sure but I guess it started after updating to JellyBean, has anyone suffered something similar after updating? thanks!
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If you look you will find a JB poor charge/ battery life thread .
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Ok I'm really bitter right now. My wife and I each have an S2. Mine has been fine for the last 2 months and hers recently starting having problems. It keeps thinking that a USB cable is plugged in.
A Google search reveals that this is indeed a common hardware problem.
When you do a restart, you get the battery icon and flashing yellow triangle with the thermometer symbol. And the only way to get it to boot up is to plug it in.
The device functions fine other than that, but other than connecting to Kies via USB, there is no other USB related functions that is working.
Gonna give Samsung support a call and see how I can warranty this. Hoping it's not going to be a painful process.
Anyone else having the same problem? How did you resolve it? New replacement? Did they repair? How long did it take? What did you do?
Thanks.
I have the same problem, started with me recently, I had my phone with USB debugging mode on.
Can't confirm when it started for sure, but it may have been because I disconnected it from my computer once, before ejecting the device through windows explorer.
In any case, I can't turn on the phone now without removing the battery or having it plugged in.
I received the battery at 100% notification and it doesn't leave when I unplug the device.
It's become very flaky, and I don't like it. Did you have any luck with Samsung support?
Anyone have any information on this or another link to how to fix this? I'm getting the temperature gauge and can't figure out how to fix it!!
ThaiM said:
Ok I'm really bitter right now. My wife and I each have an S2. Mine has been fine for the last 2 months and hers recently starting having problems. It keeps thinking that a USB cable is plugged in.
A Google search reveals that this is indeed a common hardware problem.
When you do a restart, you get the battery icon and flashing yellow triangle with the thermometer symbol. And the only way to get it to boot up is to plug it in.
The device functions fine other than that, but other than connecting to Kies via USB, there is no other USB related functions that is working.
Gonna give Samsung support a call and see how I can warranty this. Hoping it's not going to be a painful process.
Anyone else having the same problem? How did you resolve it? New replacement? Did they repair? How long did it take? What did you do?
Thanks.
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Brother had the same problem. Try adjusting the piece in the USB port of the phone either up or down. I used a small flat head screwdriver. Make sure the phone is off and battery out.
I'm not responsible for any further damage to the phone.
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To get around it boot into recovery then choose restart phone. (hold power + volume up + home button)
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To get around it boot into recovery then choose restart phone. (hold power + volume up + home button)
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Exactly what I do. My phone gives me the same grief.
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check this out mate. i had the same props.. and now its almost gone. read the cleaning fix it helpt me ,and putting all sort off usb stuff to the phone helpt even more..with and ON THE GO cable try plug ind af usb flashdrive when the battery is full and take it out again then it should remove the full icon(and my phone is not doing it anymore
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1216163
obs there are to other good links on the first page
My friend got this problem..plain stock phone.just playing games with charger on until the phone got hot. send back to samsung.after 3week got it back.use for 2 day and the problem reappear.. resend to samsung and they tell have to change the mainboard.been a month now.. still no good news..
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Yeah - get a replacement.
I had similar issues with mine. Took it to Carphone warehouse in uk. And they replaced usb port within 30 mins. Its a common fault.
Try to clean USB port.
This morning I just noticed this problem with my phone and I also noticed that under the battery stats it shows that the phone is always charging.
If I reboot the phone sometimes I lose about 20% from the battery, but then it starts to recharge although the phone is not plugged in.
I will try to change the battery with a friend of mine, maybe it's battery related, I will report back.
I suppose that the problem of discharging is:
A) when connected it can't enter in deep sleep mode
B) vbus_present eating battery
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Hi,
i immediately flashed my Flyer to Honeycomb after i received it and worked with the first HC leak from Paul so far. Now i updated to the newest leak (with downgrading from GB first) and i still have a problem i got from the beginning.
Unfortunately i don't know if it occured in GB too, because GB was only a couple of minutes on the flyer.. ;-)
What is the problem?
I charge the turned on Flyer over night and after disconnecting the charging icon is still shown. Turning the device of and on (Fastboot) doesn't help but completely rebooting does.
When i don't reboot i need to wait a long time until i get a message that there is more battery capacity consumed than could be charged and now i can connect the cable again, disconnect it and the charing icon disables.
Am i the only one with this issue?
I am a little afraid that this is a hardware error!?
Regards
Daniel
Noone?
Okay, who owns a Flyer, runs a HC leak and has no problems about that?
Do you charge like i do (over night, charging while turned on, plug out while turned on)?
I have us best buy flyer. Running leaked hc. I do not have this issue and charge my flyer over night while turned on. Not sure what could be causing your issue
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This is really annoying! I just connected the flyer to my pc to copy same data and after disconnecting the charger icon still remains. wtf!?
So if noone has this issue, what could be the cause?
This happens to me occasionally. Just a simple reboot usually fixes the issue.
@geebee1932: occasionally? About how often in let's say 10 charging processes?
This time a reboot did not work. I then connected and disconnected the charger and it did not word too. Only a reboot and disconnect while rebooting helped to get rid of the charging icon.
Really strange and as so many people don't have this problem i assume it must be a hardware defect!?
What about warranty of the usb port when you unlocked the bootloader with htcdev.com?
I find that if the icon is still there and I select one of the 4 options it automatically kills the icon, loads the sd card, and everything is normal. If not then I'll restart.
Sorry? What 4 options do you mean?
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Got it... Okay i will try it the next time.
It occured again.
These 4 options only appear when connecting to the pc right?
As i charge with the normal ac cable i cant use this hint. Or do i misunderstand you?
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Yes, only when connected to the PC.
Another trick I do is look at the power button, if it stays orange even after disconnecting the cable wait a few seconds then press the power button, press it to turn on the screen, and it should go away. This is more to get the SD card loaded, but will also kill the icon.
Other thing to note is that when you disconnect the usb cable at the PC, but leave the other side of the usb connected to the Flyer it will still think the usb is plugged into something. Once I disconnect it at the Flyer it will load my SD card and end the usb icon. As you can tell I have SD card loading issues more than the usb icon.
As I said though, restart should be worst case if it doesn't go away which hasn't happened to me yet.
I sent it to htc for warranty repair now.
Unfortunately it got lost while shipping. Hope i get my money back from the insurance...
Hey.
I've had my S2 4G ( i9210T ) a whole day now, I rooted it ect, and then I accidentally flashed a S2 rom ( I9100 ) and now theres no download mode, no recovery, no nothing at all.
Anyone have any ideas or can help me?
You mean you can't even get into the bootloader? Wow... Try flashing a stock rom on it through your pc using Odin.
Pretty sure you bricked it mate, send it back to Samsung lol
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Well you could try some things like wiping SD, wiping phone and put stock roms and everything on it. After that. Yea send it back.
It's completly ****ted, no recovery, no download, no lights, no vibrations absolutely nothing, not even a backlight button. PC don't even recognize it when I plug it in.
Does it show android...!...PC? Remove battery reinsert it. Get a JIG (google samsung JIG) and then insert it when you start the phone. Then when you see download mode pull it out and connect it to your pc and using Odin you should be able to flash it.
If that phone--!--PC don't show up then you're just straight up ****ed, I think.
Nope nothing comes up on the screen, not a damn thing. I've tried the old hair dryer trick ( worked on old SGS2 ) and it didn't make it go to download mode.
There is literally not a sign of life at all, will go down get some resistors tomorrow and try make a jig, what resistors do I need?
unlucky
Oh man, thats bad :/
You will need a mini-usb-A male connector and a 300k resistor. Then solder the resistor to the connector like this:
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Just google it. There are plenty of guides on it on both youtube and random sites.
I made a mistake! YOU NEED MINI-USB TYPE A!!!!
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Is it dead? I'm just saying...I did that once. I thought my old phone had more battery then it did and then it froze and died. It worked fine after charging. I felt sooo stupid
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Is it dead? I'm just saying...I did that once. I thought my old phone had more battery then it did and then it froze and died. It worked fine after charging. I felt sooo stupid
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I left it for about an hour and not a single thing hapen.
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Pray the NAND is so borked whomever fixes it doesn't notice it's been messed with.
TheRomMistress said:
Is it dead? I'm just saying...I did that once. I thought my old phone had more battery then it did and then it froze and died. It worked fine after charging. I felt sooo stupid
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Did this once myself with a motorola phone left it in s drawer for months then one day I decided to just charge it up and see what happens and went right into download mode n recovery fine after charge I felt like a damn moron. Sent from my PG86100 using xda premium
So,
In a recent ROM update, I also added a battery apk so I can see the percentage. I put the apk on the sd card and attempted to install via recovery. Error'd out and rebooted the phone. The downfall is when it went to reboot, would not power back up. Would GREATLY appreciate any assistance!!!!!! I did a battery swap just to double check and my batter is fine.
Dude this is THE ANDROID DEV SECTION!!!!!!
People have had this problem before just search, god.....
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EclipzeRemix said:
Dude this is THE ANDROID DEV SECTION!!!!!!
People have had this problem before just search, god.....
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No matter how hard we try it'll never sink in!
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softwaretech said:
So,
In a recent ROM update, I also added a battery apk so I can see the percentage. I put the apk on the sd card and attempted to install via recovery. Error'd out and rebooted the phone. The downfall is when it went to reboot, would not power back up. Would GREATLY appreciate any assistance!!!!!! I did a battery swap just to double check and my batter is fine.
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leave ur phone off and keep it plugged into a charger for an hour, then try pulling the battery, put it back in and see if it boots. i would probably try booting into bootloader and going to recovery first.
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I appreciate you NOT tearing me apart for a question. I did leave it charged. The charge light won't even come up. I tried removing the battery and placing the battery back in. I'm wondering if there's some type of hard reset button in the phone. Something behind the battery. Or if I touch a couple of posts then it will reset. I'm not hardware savvy. Suggestions?
softwaretech said:
I appreciate you NOT tearing me apart for a question. I did leave it charged. The charge light won't even come up. I tried removing the battery and placing the battery back in. I'm wondering if there's some type of hard reset button in the phone. Something behind the battery. Or if I touch a couple of posts then it will reset. I'm not hardware savvy. Suggestions?
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wow at this point im not too sure if its not even wanting to boot up. i guess try holding power and vol down to see if it even goes into hboot....
If it goes into hboot, flashing a new rom if you have a custom recovery or flashing a stock recovery if you don't should solve the problem.
Charge your battery in another phone. Then try and boot it. If that doesn't work, plug it into a PC and "adb reboot". That should work. If, it doesnt, warranty the phone.
Hello,
My HTC DNA suddenly turned off while plugged in the charger and does not want to turn on. (I suppose it was fully charged)
When plugged into the charger, it has no signs of life the charging light does not even flash.
I have tried almost all the possible key combinations (Vol Up + Vol Down + Power, the same while being plugged in, etc...)
I have taken it apart, disconnected battery from the motherboard and left for several hours. That did not work also.
I tried to wake it up using different chargers and pc, that did not work also.
When it is plugged into the wall charger, the ac adapter warms up a bit.
What can else can I do to wake it up? I am in a desperate situation, because the only alternative at least for several months is Nokia XpressMusic with a bad screen and earspeaker. It is a big downgrade.
I have found threads with similar problems here and on other forums too, but still could not find solution.
Any idea will be VERY appreciated.
Thanks.
The issue you explain is the phone failing. It is an issue with the main board. The only solution is sending it to HTC for a board swap which was $180 last I checked for this device.
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Uzephi said:
The issue you explain is the phone failing. It is an issue with the main board. The only solution is sending it to HTC for a board swap which was $180 last I checked for this device.
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I brought it used and can't repair it under warranty. For $180 I can buy better phone, but I have no money at the moment.
Is not the motherboard repairable?
If we assume, that hardware of the phone is okey, what possible fixes of the issue are avialable?
Thanks.
Lejolasho said:
I brought it used and can't repair it under warranty. For $180 I can buy better phone, but I have no money at the moment.
Is not the motherboard repairable?
If we assume, that hardware of the phone is okey, what possible fixes of the issue are avialable?
Thanks.
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Only other solution is jtag. It is a special module some skilled people have to force responses from phones. It is a long shot, but it might work.
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Okey guys, I have a big update.
I have left my phone in a battery disconnected state for about 24 hours and it finally turned on. Then it had audio problems (squeezing noise only in speakers, sound in headphones was fine), after trying to make a call, it shut off itself again.
I have disconnected the battery again, flashed new rom and the problem with audio remains. In the beginning it had problems with charging, but after several minutes in the wall plug it began to charge.
By the way, I have lost the black tape, what was between the motherboard and case. I think, that the phone won't have problems without it. What do you think?
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Okey guys, I have a big update.
I have left my phone in a battery disconnected state for about 24 hours and it finally turned on. Then it had audio problems (squeezing noise only in speakers, sound in headphones was fine), after trying to make a call, it shut off itself again.
I have disconnected the battery again, flashed new rom and the problem with audio remains. In the beginning it had problems with charging, but after several minutes in the wall plug it began to charge.
By the way, I have lost the black tape, what was between the motherboard and case. I think, that the phone won't have problems without it. What do you think?
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your problem is probabbly died tfa 9887 sound chip. you can take it from htc m7 and other motherboards.