Last night I pulled my phone out of my pocket to answer a text, as soon as I unlocked it, the volume bar popped up, went from full volume to silent/vibrate and continued vibrating. I tried to do anything but volume down kept interrupting everything. Even opening random programs and what not. I pulled the batt and restarted, it sat at the droid screen with the white "rsd service loading" or whatever it is, and sat there for the rest of the night until the battery died.
I got it to start up and boot all the way into the OS. It acts normally until i press the back button or the volume buttons. It then goes into the haywire crazy vibrating mode. I can get it to stop sometimes by pressing the Home button. But as I type this its randomly vibrating on my desk.
You fellas think this is a hardware issue or software?
P.S. I tried getting into the boot menu and clearing the cache, but pressing the volume button just caused it to hang at the rsd load.
Ur not on cm7 huh? Our bootstrap is automatic on plug in while power off.
Cyanogenmod
No sir. All stock, no root. 2.3.4
I was rooted before, but had all sorts of lag problems. After going back to factory everything seemed to clear up. So thats where I've stayed.
I'm considering just using my insurance and getting a new one (hopefully an upgrade to a 3 or something) as my case is fairly worn.... But if I dont need to..........
i got s3, suddenly it started to reboot itself all the time, what i see is only the samsung logo and then black, and samsung again.
the funny thing is that when i put the battery in, it automaticly start with this loop.
during the loop, when i press home+volume up, i can see the cwm screen for two seconds, and then it reboot again.
if i press home+voulume down, i see the warning in the stock recovery, but when i press volume up, nothing changed, and eventually after two seconds it reboots again.
i tried to connect it to my pc, but it dosen't show it in device manager, and have no indication that i connected it.
also, when i connect it the charger, i see circle, and then a battery for a brief second, and then the circle again.
is it simple hardware problem (stuck power button? even though it seem okay, but it may explain the automatic turn on), or half SDS?
anyway, are there any recommondations? i have'nt flashed it recently or anything like it.
kkffiirr said:
i got s3, suddenly it started to reboot itself all the time, what i see is only the samsung logo and then black, and samsung again.
the funny thing is that when i put the battery in, it automaticly start with this loop.
during the loop, when i press home+volume up, i can see the cwm screen for two seconds, and then it reboot again.
if i press home+voulume down, i see the warning in the stock recovery, but when i press volume up, nothing changed, and eventually after two seconds it reboots again.
i tried to connect it to my pc, but it dosen't show it in device manager, and have no indication that i connected it.
also, when i connect it the charger, i see circle, and then a battery for a brief second, and then the circle again.
is it simple hardware problem (stuck power button? even though it seem okay, but it may explain the automatic turn on), or half SDS?
anyway, are there any recommondations? i have'nt flashed it recently or anything like it.
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can you enter recovery mode?(yes= factory reset). can you enter download mode?(what does it say under product name?)
sriram231092 said:
can you enter recovery mode?(yes= factory reset). can you enter download mode?(what does it say under product name?)
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as i wrote before, i can enter to both recovery modes (volume up or volume down) for something like two seconds, i can't do anything in it.
if i try to get to download mode (home and volume down) i see the warning, but either i press volume up or down, it reset itself.
kkffiirr said:
as i wrote before, i can enter to both recovery modes (volume up or volume down) for something like two seconds, i can't do anything in it.
if i try to get to download mode (home and volume down) i see the warning, but either i press volume up or down, it reset itself.
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what is the warning you see?
sriram231092 said:
what is the warning you see?
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the regular, about flashing custom roms, if i want to continue press volume up, restart, volume down.
either way, it restarts.
any way it is the power button stuck in 1 mode?
If phone starts on battery insertion, before you push the button then yes, power button is shorted out.
kkffiirr said:
i got s3, suddenly it started to reboot itself all the time, what i see is only the samsung logo and then black, and samsung again.
the funny thing is that when i put the battery in, it automaticly start with this loop.
during the loop, when i press home+volume up, i can see the cwm screen for two seconds, and then it reboot again.
if i press home+voulume down, i see the warning in the stock recovery, but when i press volume up, nothing changed, and eventually after two seconds it reboots again.
i tried to connect it to my pc, but it dosen't show it in device manager, and have no indication that i connected it.
also, when i connect it the charger, i see circle, and then a battery for a brief second, and then the circle again.
is it simple hardware problem (stuck power button? even though it seem okay, but it may explain the automatic turn on), or half SDS?
anyway, are there any recommondations? i have'nt flashed it recently or anything like it.
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Try leaving the battery out overnight/long time, it helped when I got my phone stuck in a bootloop. But that was due to oc/uv...did you try something risky, causing it to bootloop?
no, it was in regular use, nothing risky.
yesterday i dissassembled it and checked with multimeter, it seem that the power button shorting the circuit, so i ordered a new one, going to be a surgical operation...
Hi everybody,
3 months with this pb, i try all things in the internet:
finaly i found the sol;
after installation OMEGA v50.1 all things ok, no restarts!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...77&postcount=4
can you please post the full thread URL? I have the same problem, and I need to send my phone back to T-Mobile, trying to save the pictures/videos!
same problem ! Any soluttion?
darsov said:
same problem ! Any soluttion?
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Problem solved just replace old power button and no problem! cost me less than 10 Euro
alright, so today at school we were gonna practice this thing that required music. the music was on my phone, but it was loud in the room so i installed the sound binaries from pimp my rom. when the option popped up asking if i wanted to wipe cache or...i cant remember...something about devs...or dvk or dv something lol, i didnt really know what the 2nd one meant, so i didnt choose one, i just clicked ok (Im really smart cant you tell) so it flashed the stuff, blah blah blah, then it booted up, and started the "android is upgrading optimizing the apps", etc. then, it said "starting apps." it did this for about 15 minutes. nothing happened, so being the smart person i am i powered it down by holding the power button. now it stays on the X infinitely and when i try to go into recovery mode, it vibrates but stays on the x (i let go of the power+volume up+volume down after it vibrated.) about 15 seconds later it vibrates again, and then 20 seconds later, it boots up to a black screen that says "complete action using Gmail, go sms pro, or drive (google drive.) If i tap on anything, it gives me the message "unfortunately, android system has stopped" if i click report or ok, it immediatly goes to the X screen again. also, whenever i power it down, it starts back up again even though i didnt press anything. the only way to turn it off is to hold power+volume down, and in the few seconds the screen turns off, hold down power+vol up+vol down. i cant get it to go into fastboot either using N-Cry toolkit, but i only waited for it to work for about 1-2 minutes untill i cancelled.
It is a nexus 4, running akop milestone 1, android 4.2.2.
rooted with N-Cry toolkit.
Please help me out guys! it took me forever to save for this phone, and dont reply to me like "you should of been patient" yeah i know! just tell me how to fix it! :crying:
nexus 4 wont boot or go into recovery or do anything (FIXED!)
swagmaster420 said:
alright, so today at school we were gonna practice this thing that required music. the music was on my phone, but it was loud in the room so i installed the sound binaries from pimp my rom. when the option popped up asking if i wanted to wipe cache or...i cant remember...something about devs...or dvk or dv something lol, i didnt really know what the 2nd one meant, so i didnt choose one, i just clicked ok (Im really smart cant you tell) so it flashed the stuff, blah blah blah, then it booted up, and started the "android is upgrading optimizing the apps", etc. then, it said "starting apps." it did this for about 15 minutes. nothing happened, so being the smart person i am i powered it down by holding the power button. now it stays on the X infinitely and when i try to go into recovery mode, it vibrates but stays on the x (i let go of the power+volume up+volume down after it vibrated.) about 15 seconds later it vibrates again, and then 20 seconds later, it boots up to a black screen that says "complete action using Gmail, go sms pro, or drive (google drive.) If i tap on anything, it gives me the message "unfortunately, android system has stopped" if i click report or ok, it immediatly goes to the X screen again. also, whenever i power it down, it starts back up again even though i didnt press anything. the only way to turn it off is to hold power+volume down, and in the few seconds the screen turns off, hold down power+vol up+vol down. i cant get it to go into fastboot either using N-Cry toolkit, but i only waited for it to work for about 1-2 minutes untill i cancelled.
It is a nexus 4, running akop milestone 1, android 4.2.2.
rooted with N-Cry toolkit.
Please help me out guys! it took me forever to save for this phone, and dont reply to me like "you should of been patient" yeah i know! just tell me how to fix it! :crying:
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OH THANK SWEET BLACK BABY JESUS I GOT INTO RECOVERY MODE LOL
i was doing it wrong.
i powered off, and held vol up/down and power at the same time.
it worked when i held vol up/down for a few secs then added power button, got to fastboot mode, then recovery.
now hopefully i can fix it without wiping my phone.
im gonna restore a nandroid i made a few days ago.
sorry if this is considered spam, this is literally the first time i have ever posted on any forum ever.
the swagmaster420 never gives up.
The model of my phone is SGH-T999. It is not rooted (I'm going to root it soon though), its running Android 4.3 and I do admit I've dropped it a few times but it has a cover. It shuts off at the most random moment and restarts itself, and sometimes it won't go past the Galaxy SIII logo before restarting itself once more. Theres a possibility the lock button has something to do because when it stays in that startup loop I play around with the lock button till it finally finishes the startup succesfully, but I don't know how the lock button can make it shut down on its own while its turned on without me touching the "power off" option in the window that comes up.
Wrong forum. This is for gti9300 only
Sent from my GT-I9300
johnael7 said:
The model of my phone is SGH-T999. It is not rooted (I'm going to root it soon though), its running Android 4.3 and I do admit I've dropped it a few times but it has a cover. It shuts off at the most random moment and restarts itself, and sometimes it won't go past the Galaxy SIII logo before restarting itself once more. Theres a possibility the lock button has something to do because when it stays in that startup loop I play around with the lock button till it finally finishes the startup succesfully, but I don't know how the lock button can make it shut down on its own while its turned on without me touching the "power off" option in the window that comes up.
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Its the broken power button, long pressing the power button reboots the phone without any dialog.
So my friend's stock s3 started randomly rebooting recently and just couldn't get to the home screen without many tries. And it got worse this morning as she had spent about an hour to no result. The problem is the phone would keep rebooting during the GT-I9300 screen.. Most of the time it wouldn't get to the Samsung boot animation.. If I charged it, the battery logo would be shown as loading instead of charging.. After trying the hard reboot combination a few times which didn't work, I noticed that I could see the battery with green bar every time I pressed the power button!
So I tried something silly.. I kept pressing the power button repeatedly during boot and surprisingly it booted up to the home screen. However, without being charged, the phone would still suffer from boot loops (at that moment we confirmed that the pressing power button repeatedly would 100% work) . As we were desperate to understand the problem, I got to know some apps that she installed recently and uninstalled them. These are the apps that she recently installed and later uninstalled:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vStudio.Android.Camera360
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fourricegroup.mc
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.naturalmotion.clumsyninja
Guess what?! The bootloop has not happened till now! So the reason I'm writing this post is because of curiosity xD
1. How does pressing the power button repeatedly help the phone to boot up? If I stop pressing it before the locksreen, it would fail.
2. Can an app really cause a weird issue like this? Or is it just a coincidence that the phone magically got better after uninstalling the apps?
Hope to get some answer from you guys for learning purposes thanks in advance!
Sounds like your power button is faulty.