everything was fine til a bit ago
recharged via USB. The battery stuck at 100 and was kept at 100 for the whole day. After rebooting, it went down to 35%. Within 20 min, it went down another 10-15%. Only active app was Moon Reader, which shouldn't be that big of a drain. So I try to recharge it in the outlet, but the adapter isn't responding (green light). I plug it into the laptop via USB and it doesn't seem to register. So I turn it off w/ the intention of turning it back on.
Afterwards, I go to power it on, but nothing happens. I hold the power, power+vol buttons, but nothing. I plug it into the USB and hold power and it boots into that battery charging page (w/ the eight lines radiating outward, like a starburst) but quickly shuts off, then on ie it seems to boot loop. I remove it from the USB and hold power and boots into the charging page momentarily, then shuts down.
I've plugged it back into the outlet, the adapter registered (red light), and charged it for a few hours. I go to turn it on, but nothing's changed.
Any ideas on what's going on/a fix? Is this dead?
Thanks
Plus, when I plug into the outlet, it doesn't go to the charging screen
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Addendum: fixed w/ Odin by flashing to Eryigit. Blast from the past or what. Download mode was apparently working (slipped my mind for some reason; had to really try for it; CWM was kaputt). Thank the gods.
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Addendum 2: ERGH, THE GODS ARE CURSING ME. So ok. ITS BOOTLOOPING. 15 mins now. It passed with Odin, flashing Eryigit, and it just bootlooped (boot animation). Shut it down and a repeat of the original problem manifested (charging splash screen flashed on, then off, or just bootlooped) Installed 2 different .tar files (both Eryigit), trying a grand total of 3 times.
Any assistance'd be appreciated.
Go in recovery and do a full wipe
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Go in recovery and do a full wipe
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Can't go to recovery. Just goes to the charging page. (flashes on, then off). flashing stock through Odin doesn't work either (I've upgraded Kies, got the drivers, flashed the partition .pit file, then flashed the stock galaxy_player_2.3.6.tar.md5 file from: http://goo.im/devs/gmillz/venturi_usa/stock/galaxy_player_2.3.6.tar.md5)
it's still bootlooping.
Unplug first. Then try booting unto recovery
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Unplug first. Then try booting unto recovery
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Already tried. It's a no go. Thing is, When trying to boot normally or into recovery, I, instead of the Samsung splash screen, get that weird charging screen, which flashes on for a moment before turning back off.
In d/l mode, the laptop/Odin recognizes the device, although Kies doesn't seem to (attempting Firmware update or Emergency firmware recovery, although it's asking for this code that I don't have.) I've already tried flashing 2 different ROMs (GB), the stock ROM, and the stock bootloaders (found on this site)
After flashing, the Samsung splash screen appears and goes into the boot animation, where it then just bootloops. (although I"ve only waited 10-15 min. on average, trying 30 min another time. Perhaps not enough time...?_
It's odd. I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary or hadn't recently. The battery just got stuck at 100% for the second time, then dropped abnormally upon reboot, then "died" upon power off. Aside from that, it's been behaving normally.
hmm.
Update: OK
So I flashed the bootloaders, which after resetting, got me into CWM. I tried to restore, but it failed. Error restoring /system. Every other folder was fine.
I then flashed the bootloaders, then flashed the stock 2.3.6 tar from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1863004 which worked!
But after powering off, the same problem appeared (Samsung logo doesn't load, just the charging screen [even if not charging] momentarily before turning back off.)
What would cause trouble restoring/loading /system folder
Nothing was done out of the ordinary before so....
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t So, trying again, first w/ the bootloader, then the stock 2.3.6..tar.md5,, I was able to d/l, root, upgrade via Odin to Eryigit- all w/o issue. When I turned it off, then back on, the same problem emerged (battery bar flashes on, then off)
Reflashed the bootloader, went to CWM, restored to an older GB, and everything went w/o a hitch. So it (the battery thing) seems only to be happening when I turn the device off. Any ideas?
i would restore using heimdall method instead. i have bricked my player litteraly 50 times and odin restore ALWAYS results in bootloop or brick. and i mean ALWAYS... every single time. although sometimes heimdall method wont work unless i use odin method first. so il have to flash with odin, bootloop/brick, then flash with hiemdall, works
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The USB was at fault. The port was a bit off and thought the device was charging, hence wouldn't boot up w/o help (ie Odin/Heimdall).
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My phone was running at about 60% battery last night, and working fine. It was in my pocket and it vibrated. I was unable to turn it on or reboot it, even after removing the battery. I tried using the battery from my wife's S2 but still no luck. I tried connecting the power supply but it still wouldn't boot so I left it charging overnight.
This morning it alternately flashed a fully green battery and a fully black battery. If I press and hold the power button it starts the boot process - I get past the Samsung splash screen and see the first "Resurrection Remix" splash screen, but then it reverts to displaying the green battery.
Any ideas for how I can revive the phone??
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My phone was running at about 60% battery last night, and working fine. It was in my pocket and it vibrated. I was unable to turn it on or reboot it, even after removing the battery. I tried using the battery from my wife's S2 but still no luck. I tried connecting the power supply but it still wouldn't boot so I left it charging overnight.
This morning it alternately flashed a fully green battery and a fully black battery. If I press and hold the power button it starts the boot process - I get past the Samsung splash screen and see the first "Resurrection Remix" splash screen, but then it reverts to displaying the green battery.
Any ideas for how I can revive the phone??
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Ok We cant say its bricked!! Because its booting up but not coming to homescreen rite? Are u able to get into recovery or download mode?? If ur able o then wipe the data cache and dalvik cache, reinstall the ROM again.. If Recovery doesnt shw up.. Then Use ODIN to flash original fw!! Even if u still couldn get it.. Order a USB JIG from Ebay and try getting into DOWNLOAD MODE!! Even after this its still working means ITS BRICKED !!
Start download mode and the flash a new stock firmware . And your phone isnt bricked .!
This is why I always make a backup.
If you can get into download mode you can fix it, if you can't it's a service centre job. Pretty simple really.
Try cleaning charging port..
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Uh oh...I managed to get into Recovery mode, did a factory reset and kicked off a re-install of the Resurrection Remix ROM from the external SD and it's hung at 50% (for 10 mins now) - at the "Extracting /system..." stage. I daren't interrupt it.
Any ideas???
Yes stop messing
1: If you dint have to save anything, wipe better to full wipe
Flash a stock Rom using Odin, than start again with custom roms.
OR
2: download your custom Rom again and flash, might be corrupt download.
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Yes stop messing
1: If you dint have to save anything, wipe better to full wipe
Flash a stock Rom using Odin, than start again with custom roms.
OR
2: download your custom Rom again and flash, might be corrupt download.
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So it's OK to interrupt this ROM flash, even though it's stuck at 50%? Should I just hold the power button or remove the battery??
pull the battery
But I say flash stock Rom first, lengthy procedure I know, but safer
OK I decided to reflash RR 2.3, which had been running fine for a couple of weeks previously. Immediately after flashing (which worked OK) the boot process wouldn't complete - it got as far as the RR splash screen then died (screen blank, and needed a long press on the power button to restart).
This happened several times. Eventually I removed and replaced the battery and it finally booted.
Does this sound like a hardware problem? I've noticed that the phone often runs quite warm, but I don't know if that's normal.
You have to flash stock rom, only way to know if there is something wrong with your phone, run it for couple days.
Now to the heat issue, it is due to
1: modem
2: kernel
3: both
I have an um-rooted samsung galaxy player 3.6 (running gingerbread 2.3.6) I was browsing an app when suddenly it crashed! the battery was low, so at first I thought to plug it in, but before I did, I noticed that it was rebooting every 4-5 seconds. plugged it in, took out battery, tried putting in recovery (put bat. back in, hold power and both volume buttons) but it vibrates and just goes back into boot loop. it pops up with the samsung logo, stays for 3 or so seconds, screen goes dark, then it does it again.
I have been messing with it. when it starts booting, my computer recognizes it as OMAP3630 which google has told me is the name of the processor. It tries to install drivers but fails due to "umplugged device" when it turns off
Weird! If you have data to recover try using adb logcat to see what's going on. Otherwise reflash with Odin. I have only experienced this problem when using heimdall to flash my us yp-gs1, but it happens right after flashing.
What app were you using when it happened?
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a Forum app. It has not been flashed either. it is all stock 2.3.6 gingerbread. if i put the battery in then plug it in (without hitting any power buttons) it goes to a loading circle (that does not move at all) and just stays there. the computer does not recognize it in this state. its only 3 months old, but I have no idea where the recipt is!
weird! im sticking with my answer tho, if you want to fix it then put it in download mode and flash it
if you cant get to download mode then buy a $2 usb jig
Tried it! no luck. got it in download mode. ran odin and It said pass! BUT it only took 3 seconds? and then instead of flashing just samsung then rebooting, it started flashing samsung with a caution symbol under it and rebooting. went to do it again and it says suctom binary current binary:custom. so it seems it worked but did not fix my problem
Did you flash normalboot and factoryfs both?
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Tried it! no luck. got it in download mode. ran odin and It said pass! BUT it only took 3 seconds? and then instead of flashing just samsung then rebooting, it started flashing samsung with a caution symbol under it and rebooting. went to do it again and it says suctom binary current binary:custom. so it seems it worked but did not fix my problem
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I had a similar problem with the galaxy player 5.0. Took out my micro sd card from it and somehow that worked. Hasn't gone on any reboot cycle since.
I was gonna try the fs whatever one, but now i cannot get my computer to recognize it! i tried another factory reset and that didnt help. i got it to work once. Guess I will have to keep trying? I got school so I cant do it now (16, junior in High school)
yep you'll need to get to download mode to flash it. like i said before, a $2 usb jig will always do the trick (i loooove mine)
I dont have any problem getting it into download mode, my problem is getting the computer to recognize it. gonna have to try it on a dif computer I guess, which is weird, because I got it to work once, but now it wont. I flashed the normalboot the first time, what did i do wrong? should I have flashed the other (fs or whatever is is) one instead? thanks for the help!
When I'm in a bootloop after heimdall testing I need to flash factoryfs. For you I would say flash both. Try another cable/ try another USB port
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Okay, I installed the slickjb rom and it worked fine. The installed the bravia engine and the phone would not boot (stuck on flash screen). I turned it off and went back into recovery and flashed my back-up. Everything okay again. Then I flashed the slickjb rom again and all was okay again. I thought what the hell, maybe I did something wrong with the bravia flash so I tried it again. Same issue. I then started the restore process again with my backup and walked away for like 2 minutes. Came back and my phone was black. LED was on, but would not come on. I cannot turn it on. About all I can do is plug it into a power source and the LG logo will flash and it will go black. The same if I unplug it. I tried going into download mode, which I can, and doing an LGNPST and the process will proceed, but then at either 67% or 85% the process stops and the phone will look like it is rebooting (LG flashes a couple of times or three) and then it goes blank. Nothing. I have tried this 4 times. What do I do? This is my only phone.
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Okay, I installed the slickjb rom and it worked fine. The installed the bravia engine and the phone would not boot (stuck on flash screen). I turned it off and went back into recovery and flashed my back-up. Everything okay again. Then I flashed the slickjb rom again and all was okay again. I thought what the hell, maybe I did something wrong with the bravia flash so I tried it again. Same issue. I then started the restore process again with my backup and walked away for like 2 minutes. Came back and my phone was black. LED was on, but would not come on. I cannot turn it on. About all I can do is plug it into a power source and the LG logo will flash and it will go black. The same if I unplug it. I tried going into download mode, which I can, and doing an LGNPST and the process will proceed, but then at either 67% or 85% the process stops and the phone will look like it is rebooting (LG flashes a couple of times or three) and then it goes blank. Nothing. I have tried this 4 times. What do I do? This is my only phone.
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Your phone is stuck in a protection mode. It enters this mode when it detects overheating and often happens by mistake. Mine did it and it freaked me out.
Here's how I fixed it.
Plug it in to the CHARGER to the wall.
leave it plugged in for an hour or so.
then unplug it and leave it unplugged for 15-20 minutes.
then plug it in to the charger again and it SHOULD power up again by itself.
Thanks to houstonn for telling me about this.
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Your phone is stuck in a protection mode. It enters this mode when it detects overheating and often happens by mistake. Mine did it and it freaked me out.
Here's how I fixed it.
Plug it in to the CHARGER to the wall.
leave it plugged in for an hour or so.
then unplug it and leave it unplugged for 15-20 minutes.
then plug it in to the charger again and it SHOULD power up again by itself.
Thanks to houstonn for telling me about this.
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Ill try that.
Device: Galaxy Player 5.0 INTL (YP-G70)
ROM: Cyanogenmod 10.1 (7/23/2013)
Kernel: Sultan r5 INTL
Problem: The battery appears to be malfunctioning somehow. After using "Pimp My Rom" and enabling some tweaks, the device began to randomly turn off and loop on and off with a white battery outline onscreen. Now, the battery has sufficient charge. When it finally turns on, it's always over seventy percent. When it does turn on, if it is plugged in on the wall charger, it immediately turns off upon disconnecting this wall charger. Also, it displays "Android is upgrading, starting apps" at every boot. Managing to turn on the device after doing a reboot with the power button many times takes up to 15 minutes. It sucks. ):
Steps attempted:
Reflashing ROM and kernel using exact steps (wiping all data, /system, cache, etc.).
Flashing Cyanogenmod 10.2 (8/05/2013) with Sultan r6.
Deleting battery stats.
Cleaning charger and microUSB port.
Rechanging tweaks to the values I remember in Pimp My Rom. (IDK about all of them, if someone could post the defaults that would be great).
Draining battery (I did to 1%) and then recharging. Should I drain until it turns off?
[EDIT]: Tried flashing to Chip v1.5 with r14 kernel. No luck; it is just a different battery icon.
[EDIT]: Tried flashing to stock with Odin.
Are there any steps that I could possibly take to fix this? Perhaps flash to stock and see if the problem persists?
[WORKAROUND!] I've found a workaround, however annoying it may be. Plug in the YP-G70 and it should bootloop with the battery icon. However, as the icon disappears and the screen is black for about a second, just before it is about to reboot with the icon, pull the charger from the device. This has guaranteed my device to start every time; I can't ensure that it will work for you, but it is worth a try.
Please help!
You need to either do a factory reset from within the settings or wiping factory reset from within CWM. If that doesn't work you may need to flash back to stock.
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You need to either do a factory reset from within the settings or wiping factory reset from within CWM. If that doesn't work you may need to flash back to stock.
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I have done many factory resets from CWM. Would flashing back to stock do anything that flashing another rom wouldn't?
Also, after scouring xda for answers, I saw iurnait recommended draining the battery until the device turns off. I'm going to try that I suppose.
I'd flash back to stock if that doesn't work
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Unfortunately, flashing to stock using Odin didn't remove the problem.
I used a guide from androidromupdate
To be honest, I've given up. I'll update the original post with what I've tried and the workaround that I've found for this dreadful issue. If anyone else has this issue, best of luck!
I've got the same "boot loop with battery logo" problem, but without the random shutdowns are "android is upgrading" message on boot.
Some additional details:
I can boot into download mode without any trouble.
It will occasionally complete a boot, but gets stuck in the loop as soon as something causes it to reboot or shutdown.
I can sometimes boot into recovery mode. It will successfully go into recovery mode about 2-3 times before it will go into a normal boot.
Flashing alternate kernels (even going all the way back to stock) just changes the battery logo, but does not stop the bootlooping problem
The stock kernel was far more reliable than the others, often booting all the way after only 3 or 4 tries.
Throughout the boot loop, the battery logo (except in the stock kernel) will show as empty, even after being charged overnight
Upon a successful boot (all the way to android home screen), the battery is shown as fully charged (if it's been charging) or a level that seems probable (e.g. it'll show as 70-80% if it's been in download mode (which keeps screen on at full brightness) for a while or left to bootloop for close to an hour.
If it's not plugged into a charger, it only loops once each time you turn it on (i.e. battery logo shows for a few seconds then the device shuts itself off).
An update to Joseph's posted workaround:
I've found the button lights a perfect indicator for the timing. Wait for them to go black and then come back on very dimly then unplug the cable before the screen shows anything or the key lights go full brightness (like they are when device is fully booted and awake).
Recently, my phone randomly rebooted and was stuck at the Vibrant logo and would not progress. So I used Odin to try to recover back to stock, but it is not working. Odin says that the phone was flashed properly and gives the "Pass" message. But the phone still does not boot. The phone can get into download mode, but not recovery.
Problem:
Phone boots past the "Galaxy S" logo, goes to the "Vibrant logo" and them immediately shuts off.
For some reason, the "Charging Battery" gif keeps looping when the phone is plugged in, as if the phone was continually being un-plugged and re-plugged. But I know this is not a battery connection problem, because the phone remains turned on in download mode.
I have tried Odin and Heimdall to no effect, and I would appreciate any help that I get.
Thanks in advance.
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Warlord5432100 said:
Recently, my phone randomly rebooted and was stuck at the Vibrant logo and would not progress. So I used Odin to try to recover back to stock, but it is not working. Odin says that the phone was flashed properly and gives the "Pass" message. But the phone still does not boot. The phone can get into download mode, but not recovery.
Problem:
Phone boots past the "Galaxy S" logo, goes to the "Vibrant logo" and them immediately shuts off.
For some reason, the "Charging Battery" gif keeps looping when the phone is plugged in, as if the phone was continually being un-plugged and re-plugged. But I know this is not a battery connection problem, because the phone remains turned on in download mode.
I have tried Odin and Heimdall to no effect, and I would appreciate any help that I get.
Thanks in advance.
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you might try a different cable.
I had the same thing happen with the charging symbol and it turned out to be a bad cable.
it would transfer data ok for the most part, just a bit sporadically slow, but the charging always did that weird looping thing.
I used a new cable and it was fine.
it might not be the same issue but it might be worth a shot.
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you might try a different cable.
I had the same thing happen with the charging symbol and it turned out to be a bad cable.
it would transfer data ok for the most part, just a bit sporadically slow, but the charging always did that weird looping thing.
I used a new cable and it was fine.
it might not be the same issue but it might be worth a shot.
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This did not work. I tried with 4 different cables, and the phone still won't boot.
Thanks for trying.
Does it work before? If so deinstall the drivers, plug in another USB port and install the drivers again.
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Does it work before? If so deinstall the drivers, plug in another USB port and install the drivers again.
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Yep, I did all that. Nothing worked. But I got it fixed now.
For future reference:
When using CM10, my Vibrant got a corrupted Internal SD. No ROM boots except for Eugene's Froyo.