Need help... my phone is dead - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I need help.... my phone is completely dead..... it was working till yesterday night.... but today morning the Phone has gone completely dead. I had kept it for charge in the night.... any idea how to switch it on?
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ganucci said:
I need help.... my phone is completely dead..... it was working till yesterday night.... but today morning the Phone has gone completely dead. I had kept it for charge in the night.... any idea how to switch it on?
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Ummmm... If your phone is dead then how did you send this message via your phone? It says that you sent it using your I9300 using the xda app...

I.am using my other phone. I have two phones sir
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Between a small doubt. If mother board is gone. And if the service centre guy send the mother board to the company, will the company guys come to know that it's rooted?
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ganucci said:
Between a small doubt. If mother board is gone. And if the service centre guy send the mother board to the company, will the company guys come to know that it's rooted?
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Mere rooting will not destroy the mother board and cannot be held against you even if they can find out which is unlikely. A severe voltage surge perhaps and that can be found out.
Don't give up yet. Pull out the battery, give it a few hours, and reinstall battery and who knows it might be up and running again
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I tried removing battery the batter and put.it.back after half hour... still the same
And can I argue.that rooting is not the cause and reclaim my warranty?
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ganucci said:
I tried removing battery the batter and put.it.back after half hour... still the same
And can I argue.that rooting is not the cause and reclaim my warranty?
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..you are of course not going to make an opening speech at the service centre stating that you had rooted your phone etc etc?!Offer prayers to Udupi Lord Krishna and go to the service centre and keep your mouth tightly closed.You will be alright,this is a high-tech phone that cannot die just like that unless of course something else physically was done to it like soaking in water etc...

I am doing just that now.... Between how do you know that I am from udupi
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ganucci said:
I need help.... my phone is completely dead..... it was working till yesterday night.... but today morning the Phone has gone completely dead. I had kept it for charge in the night.... any idea how to switch it on?
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Ur phone starting in download mode??? Try to go into download mode uf it does than reflash
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It's not going to any mode.... it has gone completely dead
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ganucci said:
I am doing just that now.... Between how do you know that I am from udupi
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I have spies everywhere who keep informing me of the whereabouts of everybody I interact with!
Just kidding--------on any post you can see various details of the poster like location,date of joining XDA,no. of posts etc etc......
All the best.

ganucci said:
I need help.... my phone is completely dead..... it was working till yesterday night.... but today morning the Phone has gone completely dead. I had kept it for charge in the night.... any idea how to switch it on?
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may god be with you son. unless the motherboard is electrically dead, they wont be able to find out but if they short something here and there and manage to get it on then boom! they shall see the binary counter...
good luck, my prayers are with you

Thank you everbody for replies.. Well i went to the service and gave the phone and told him that its dead when i saw in the morning... he told he will check and let me know by evening... and i got the call in an hour saying mother board is dead and will be replaced by this monday. ....

ganucci said:
Thank you everbody for replies.. Well i went to the service and gave the phone and told him that its dead when i saw in the morning... he told he will check and let me know by evening... and i got the call in an hour saying mother board is dead and will be replaced by this monday. ....
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[Q] lcd damaged what can i do

hi i just replaced my whole housing on my galaxy s 2 and i think i damaged the lcd because when i boot up its all liny or grainy ? lines are going horizontally ?
is it damaged or what is it?
Anyone
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try to reconnect the lcd plug to the main board
I did twice..
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did you check if the connector got damaged?
It looks ok.. Dunno if warrenty will cover it if they no i opened the phone
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Anyone
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It looks ok.. Dunno if warrenty will cover it if they no i opened the phone
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No they will not cover it as in ur 1st post u stated you exchanged housing.
So for what ever reason housing was damaged or wrong color all was working fine untill the fast hands of oneself?
Gavin take appart aand refit this way your checking over all connections.
I did.. The new housing looks like original so doubt it they can see any difference
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Any modifications carried out by non-Samsung authorised repair people (or anyone else for that matter) voids your warranty.
Basically you're asking a question only Samsung can answer. Soooo...You're going to have to roll the dice & send it in for warranty service & see what happens. Or have it repaired by someone other than Samsung.
Being a betting man, I'd say you'll be paying for the repairs either way.
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I did.. The new housing looks like original so doubt it they can see any difference
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[email protected] said:
I did.. The new housing looks like original so doubt it they can see any difference
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They would have to be blind or dump not to see any difference since the original handsets have a label (battery space) with fone details on it....
But if you explain to them its better you pay Sammy to fix your fone then paying out for a brand new one...
That sticker is on the new one took it off the old one and put on the new.. Its a guinine cover
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At the end of the day, you're not going to find the answer to your question by posting on here.
You're only going to find out by asking Samsung to fix your phone....Soooo....How bout you do exactly that & let us know how you go ?
Ok if they wont repair il by a new screen on ebay for 120e and do it
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try sending to samsung said you have no idea what happen
U been sarcastic ha
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you'd be better off buying another screen and replacing it yourself TBH
Right
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Got it fixed under warranty
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Charging problem

So I unfortunately ended up with the charging bug.
When I put my phone In the wall charger it doesnt want to charge. The charging indicators all turn on but I still lose battery.
I've tested the cord and charger on my friends phone and they work. I've also put in a different battery with the same result. Also booted into safe mode.
Help?
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All these views and not one response? Nice ._.
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Reboot ?
XxCE0xX said:
So I unfortunately ended up with the charging bug.
When I put my phone In the wall charger it doesnt want to charge. The charging indicators all turn on but I still lose battery.
I've tested the cord and charger on my friends phone and they work. I've also put in a different battery with the same result. Also booted into safe mode.
Help?
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Have u installed any app after which this prblm started?
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Replace the phone?
I've never had that problem, so have no clue. But if rebooting and pulling the barry doesn't do it, I'd take it to sprint.
What's the rating of charger u are using?
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Stock charger my friend.
No apps because it started on the aokp job build 8. I switched back to stick rom but even that didn't help
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Try to reset the phone...
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You guys just love to state the basic quick fixes don't you :/
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XxCE0xX said:
You guys just love to state the basic quick fixes don't you :/
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Yes I think u r right but you see, we guys are not professional or experts. So we can only suggest some possible solution my friend.
And if someone is in trouble, these possibilities can lead him/her to the solution of the problem..
I hope u understand...
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I would try reverting back to stock, and if that doesn't work, then i would get a replacement. Sounds like a hardware issue.

Battery

My battery isnt charging very fast at all.
Ive had it on charge plugged into the mains for 10 hours and its at 24%
Anyone know whats going on?
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Not really what its going to show but heres some screen shots
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I cant get it to 100% Its been on charge all night.
I put it on charge every night when i go to sleep and last night it was at like 16% when i woke up. Left it on charge for a few hrs today and it go to 24%.
Should i flash stock rom?
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Yes ..or try to full.wipe
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Ive just done a full wipe. Just gony let it sit for a bit and see if it will take a charge
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Been on charge for 3 hrs not doing anything with it and its at 7% now. Thats with a full wipe.
Wish the damn thing would hurry up and charge so that i can flash stock and see if that fixes it.
Its a weird one like.
Ive had an s1 s2 and a galaxy tab and never experienced anything like this.Anyone know whats going on?
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Do these mean anything to anyone?
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shenery said:
Do these mean anything to anyone?
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I would flash back to a stock ROM and start there. Make sure it is not hardware before you start changing software settings.
Can i flash a stock rom with 9% with odin mobile lol
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I'd try putting it on USB charge first. It might just be your charger has gone US rather than anything to do with the phone OS or software. Looking at those first screenshots I'm wondering about the 'discharging' 'charging' going on. To me that sugests the charger itself is not staying on charge mode.
The SIII gets 'stuck' sometimes says Samsung, they said it was a software issue so hopefully they'll fix it soon
Possible temp fix: turn off phone (works 90% of time for me)
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Flashed stock ics an hr ago and I'm up to 30% that's the highest it's gotten to in the last 24 hrs. So think it's safe to say I'm back in business.
Very strange behaviour though!
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shenery said:
Flashed stock ics an hr ago and I'm up to 30% that's the highest it's gotten to in the last 24 hrs. So think it's safe to say I'm back in business.
Very strange behaviour though!
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I think that your charger is bad. Try some rooted jb os with latest siyah kernel,then try to charge your phone with usb. Latest syiah kernel have tweaked usb charge to 900mA. You have managed to recharge a little bit because ics has weaker wireless than jb.
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Cant be bad charger because I've tried 2.
As soon as I flashed stock t-mobile ics the charging went back to the way it should be.
Was running latest overcome jb. Was working fine. Something must of gotten corrupted?
Only thing that fixed it was flashing stock.
Anyway crisis averted. Just glad Im not having to send it away to samsung.
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Now that's what I'm talking about!
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I think its safe to say.. ITS SAMSUNGS FAULT.. or just JB
shenery said:
My battery isnt charging very fast at all.
Ive had it on charge plugged into the mains for 10 hours and its at 24%
Anyone know whats going on?
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Did the problems just start happening with jellybean? well here's a link where many people are discussing the same issue with possible solutions..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1907361
hope it helps...
tbh i'm still looking for a good solution.
First of all is ur phone rooted? If it is download an app called better battery stats and check the kernal wakelock and partial wakelock and send me some screenshots.
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****s sake guys. Phone was flashed to jb. Battery was broken, somehow by the software?
Flashed stock from samfirmware and my phone is back to normal.
Woo looking
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Close the thread then?
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I think my phones bricked

I was using Odin to root my i777 on my laptop and about half way through the flash process my laptop died on me I had forgot to plug it in. I know stupid move but know I can't even turn my phone on it won't even go into download mode. Please I need help if possible I have read some about using a jig but not for sure it would work on my phone at this point.
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I'm pretty sure that thing is HARD BRICKED, mainly cause it powered off during Odin (big no-no). Hopefully I'm wrong and someone else can chime in.
You can always try a jig before giving up
Bobbyc75 said:
I was using Odin to root my i777 on my laptop and about half way through the flash process my laptop died on me I had forgot to plug it in. I know stupid move but know I can't even turn my phone on it won't even go into download mode. Please I need help if possible I have read some about using a jig but not for sure it would work on my phone at this point.
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Sure u have an i777? Your signature says otherwise...
Yes I have an i-777 I am using my other phone to post with
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Send it to mobile tech videos.
Phalanx7621 said:
Send it to mobile tech videos.
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Yeah I'm thinking that's going to be the best just don't know if $50 is to much to be spending on that phone it was just a backup anyway.
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Bobbyc75 said:
Yeah I'm thinking that's going to be the best just don't know if $50 is to much to be spending on that phone it was just a backup anyway.
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Well the rest is all on u. Good luck
Im sure you can repair it... Try jtag service... Search ebay.. Sure it helps..
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Bricked LGOG resurrected by mobiletechvideos.com

So I was trying to restore my phone to stock from the N4 conversion. I was a bonehead and accidentally restored the wrong partition image and then my phone was toast. Thanks to mobiletechvideos.com, I am writing this message from my phone.
Thanks guys, I really appreciate your work and would recommend them to anyone.
That being said, I'm planning on building my own JTAG very soon.
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Good for you sir
What is JTAG btw?
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What was your turn around from when they received your device? And if you don't mind, what part of the country are you from?
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TangoXray said:
What was your turn around from when they received your device? And if you don't mind, what part of the country are you from?
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Georgia.
They received it on Wednesday and I had it back in 7 days. I did pay for rush processing and expedited shipping. So $95 when it was all said and done.
JTAG http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Test_Action_Group
It's a low level way to interact with the phone when the primary os is not installed or borked like mine. My solder fu is not that strong yet, so I didn't want to attempt to figure it out myself.
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Just got mine back from mobiletechvideo great service quick turn around I'd recommend them to anyone
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I'm gonna send mine in after the holiday git my phone three days ago fml
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jriv said:
I'm gonna send mine in after the holiday git my phone three days ago fml
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Just to be sure it needs JTAG does it show as qdl in device manager when connected to computer.
adfurgerson said:
Just to be sure it needs JTAG does it show as qdl in device manager when connected to computer.
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Yup sure does
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Got mine fixed. They did good. Vibrate came back a little week. But hey, got my phone back working.
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Got mine fixed. They did good. Vibrate came back a little week. But hey, got my phone back working.
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Then the vibrator motor is probably connected loosely. Might wanna mention that to the guy in case it quits working.
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Just mailed mine off to him today
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Just got mine back it boots but the touchscreen doesn't work at all pretty annoyed he wants me to ship it back so he can fix it now I have to wait another two weeks
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He better pay for the shipping
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Nope but I took it part myself and the connector for the digitizer wasn't plugged in all the way
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That's still bull****. I'd dispute the credit card charge.
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Its pretty annoying but he did fix it . I just wish he would have taken more time to test it after he finished
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I'll fix this post in the "morning."
I have had two experiences with Mobiletechvideos and my Samsung Galaxy S3.
Bricked it in January -- sent it off and it was back to me in under a week. Worked like a charm until,,,,,
Two weeks ago I was flashing a custom rom when the battery died. My fault.... sucker was dead, dead. Sent it back to Mobiletechvideo on a Thursday (overnight mail). It was back in my hands the following Saturday. Working just like new again.
These guys are great - I appreciated that they communicated with me through the process.

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