Phone not turning on at all - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys,
Just installed CM 9.1 (stable version) last night and now my phone won't boot up at all.
This is what happened:
- Using omega rom at first, worked fine.
- Did a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvick cache
- Installed CM 9.1
- Had problems with WiFi connection, could find my network and enter network password but it wouldn't connect
- Did a factory reset, etc.
- Re-installed CM 9.1
- Wifi issues still there, decided to fix them in the morning.
- Woke up this morning , phone was running fine for 3-4 hours.
- Went to grab my phone and its off
- Take out battery, try turn it back on. Nothing happens.
- Try charge it when I get home , thinking it might have run out of power. Still not booting up.
- Can't boot into recovery or download
Now I have no idea what to do, is my phone bricked as they say?
Much help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ben

unclesnoop said:
Hey guys,
Just installed CM 9.1 (stable version) last night and now my phone won't boot up at all.
This is what happened:
- Using omega rom at first, worked fine.
- Did a factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvick cache
- Installed CM 9.1
- Had problems with WiFi connection, could find my network and enter network password but it wouldn't connect
- Did a factory reset, etc.
- Re-installed CM 9.1
- Wifi issues still there, decided to fix them in the morning.
- Woke up this morning , phone was running fine for 3-4 hours.
- Went to grab my phone and its off
- Take out battery, try turn it back on. Nothing happens.
- Try charge it when I get home , thinking it might have run out of power. Still not booting up.
- Can't boot into recovery or download
Now I have no idea what to do, is my phone bricked as they say?
Much help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Ben
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You require a service centre but as you may have to pay for the repair i would buy a USB Recovery Jig first to see if you can boot to download mode .
jje

JJEgan said:
You require a service centre but as you may have to pay for the repair i would buy a USB Recovery Jig first to see if you can boot to download mode .
jje
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Hey bro,
Thanks for the reply. Alright I will have to look into getting a jig.
How much does the service centre normally charge?
Ben

$350 or around that

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[Q] Please you can help me with my problems with i9100?

Ok,from the beginning i want to tell my story with that phone. I bought him from a friend with a normal price and hadn t no problem at all,but upon a few weeks suddenly the home button starts to have a delay of 5-10 seconds,the proximity sensor exactly like home button (delay) ,the screen didnt rotate ,but the autorotation is activated,and when i want to do a calibration of this sensor,stuck a minute or two and after say that is calibrated but nothing happens . A week ago, i root my phone and try a lot of custom roms,but nothing helped yet 3 days when i install Sensation Rom ,and miracle,for two days everything works like anything doest happend,but after it stuck again.. please help,what can i do? it s a file damaged,or is a hardware problem ? a lot of thanks
Iubirica said:
Ok,from the beginning i want to tell my story with that phone. I bought him from a friend with a normal price and hadn t no problem at all,but upon a few weeks suddenly the home button starts to have a delay of 5-10 seconds,the proximity sensor exactly like home button (delay) ,the screen didnt rotate ,but the autorotation is activated,and when i want to do a calibration of this sensor,stuck a minute or two and after say that is calibrated but nothing happens . A week ago, i root my phone and try a lot of custom roms,but nothing helped yet 3 days when i install Sensation Rom ,and miracle,for two days everything works like anything doest happend,but after it stuck again.. please help,what can i do? it s a file damaged,or is a hardware problem ? a lot of thanks
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Hard to say.
Could also be a hardware issue.
I recommend to flash back stock ROM with stock kernel.
Maybe you have to wipe data (do factory reset).
Then check again.
Good luck !
It_ler said:
Hard to say.
Could also be a hardware issue.
I recommend to flash back stock ROM with stock kernel.
Maybe you have to wipe data (do factory reset).
Then check again.
Good luck !
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I tried once to flash stock rom,with original kernel and modem,but i view another problem wich in custom rom dont appear,like ..i cant answer,the green or red slide its stuck and those problems even..i wipe a lot of times, i do factory reset ,but nothing..just,how works for those days when i install sensation,i dont know,its a mistery
Are you using micro-sd card ? if so remove it and turn the device on.
PsyOr said:
Are you using micro-sd card ? if so remove it and turn the device on.
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i dont have a micro sd card
nothing?:|
Iubirica said:
nothing?:|
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You've already done the extreme of reinstalling a stock ROM and performing a factory reset. I'm also assuming you didn't install a bunch of apps before the problem started, though.
My advice would be: go back to stock ROM again, factory reset, and SLOWLY reinstall your apps. This will help narrow down what app could be causing your issue. (if it is an app)
No bumping threads after 54 minutes. Not cool. People here aren't at your beck & call :-/
Iubirica said:
nothing?:|
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ctomgee said:
You've already done the extreme of reinstalling a stock ROM and performing a factory reset. I'm also assuming you didn't install a bunch of apps before the problem started, though.
My advice would be: go back to stock ROM again, factory reset, and SLOWLY reinstall your apps. This will help narrow down what app could be causing your issue. (if it is an app)
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Thanks..right now i will try your advice,and i come with a feedback
MistahBungle said:
No bumping threads after 54 minutes. Not cool. People here aren't at your beck & call :-/
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sorry for that ,but this site is my only hope
i tried ..i put the stock rom without any apps installed.but i had the same problems..by example when i want to delete a widget from the screen the phone stucks a few seconds,and the came to normal..the home button had the same delay and the proximity sensor works with the same delay,when i want to close a call ,stays a 5-10 seconds to light up the screen..i dont know,what is with him,i m disperate
..and what is strange,by example when is on charge ,the home delay dissapeared,works normally,but the rest of the problems remain
comeone..nobody knows anything about my problems with phone?
1.send it to Samsung for warranty.
2.get your money back from "friend".
I think i had similar problems with you previously, even worse maybe. Battery shows charging while cable is unplugged. Some of the time it pops up a warning message "Unstable Voltage". I did the same thing as you, flashing roms, wiping x " i forgot how many times", factory resetting X times and so on. What solved the problem for me was ;
-> i took out the battery
-> left phone untouched for several days
-> put the battery back -> charged till full
-> wipe data, factory reset, wipe battery stats, wipe cache,dalvik as well, FIX permissions
-> flash latest stock rom ( 4.0.4 at that time )
-> reboot phone
-> root again ( flashing stock rom loses root ) using CF-Root
-> reboot to CWM recovery
-> wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache,dalvik as well, FIX permissions
-> flash PA (Paranoidandroid ROM - please follow the instruction from OP post) via CWM
->wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, FIX permissions
-> reboot phone
-> wait for apps updated and then reboot to recovery and FIX permission for the final time and VOILA!!
The phone works great up till this moment. Not sure if you gonna solve your issue with the way i did it but might worth the try. Nothing to lose anyway it seems as you were hardcore-ing flashing roms and wiping data and such. Good Luck!
Certainly that i hope this will be able to relieve you of the unnecessary distress.
alexct said:
I think i had similar problems with you previously, even worse maybe. Battery shows charging while cable is unplugged. Some of the time it pops up a warning message "Unstable Voltage". I did the same thing as you, flashing roms, wiping x " i forgot how many times", factory resetting X times and so on. What solved the problem for me was ;
-> i took out the battery
-> left phone untouched for several days
-> put the battery back -> charged till full
-> wipe data, factory reset, wipe battery stats, wipe cache,dalvik as well, FIX permissions
-> flash latest stock rom ( 4.0.4 at that time )
-> reboot phone
-> root again ( flashing stock rom loses root ) using CF-Root
-> reboot to CWM recovery
-> wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache,dalvik as well, FIX permissions
-> flash PA (Paranoidandroid ROM - please follow the instruction from OP post) via CWM
->wipe data, factory reset, wipe cache, FIX permissions
-> reboot phone
-> wait for apps updated and then reboot to recovery and FIX permission for the final time and VOILA!!
The phone works great up till this moment. Not sure if you gonna solve your issue with the way i did it but might worth the try. Nothing to lose anyway it seems as you were hardcore-ing flashing roms and wiping data and such. Good Luck!
Certainly that i hope this will be able to relieve you of the unnecessary distress.
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i tried to do all things that you sayed to me,without to leave the phone with no battery several days..dand nothing happend,the problems persist ..i dont know ,i dont have a guarantee,and the cost may be high,thanks anyway
UP
Your friend clearly sold you a dodgy phone. You should demand your money back and use the phone to beat him until he pays. That is my diagnosis and clearly the answer to your "problem".
today after wipe everything and flash de jelly bam rom ,custom kernel etc..doesnt work at all,but i removed the battery for 30 minutes,and when i put it back and openned it ,everything works very well..just a calibrate,and clearly now have no problems..how long it mentain,i dont know,but even now i dont know what it had .. mistery
so,what are you thinking,what is the cause?

[Q] Help needed. Unknown baseband with wifi not connecting to internet

Hi there, being a newbie here.
My i9100 has an unknown baseband along with no signal and no IMEI when i soft reboot my phone, but mobile signal will return once i have removed my battery. Also, when I connect to wifi, it appears to be connecting normally, but it is not connecting to the internet.
i just recently flashed to cm9 stable, using siyah 4.1.5.
Any clue on what happened?
Thanks in advance~
superchic9527 said:
Hi there, being a newbie here.
My i9100 has an unknown baseband along with no signal and no IMEI when i soft reboot my phone, but mobile signal will return once i have removed my battery. Also, when I connect to wifi, it appears to be connecting normally, but it is not connecting to the internet.
i just recently flashed to cm9 stable, using siyah 4.1.5.
Any clue on what happened?
Thanks in advance~
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check this page...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645678
There's a known 'Unknown baseband' bug when you charge the phone and flash new roms. Take out the battery for 180 seconds. Put it back in. Go into recovery wipe cache, format cache, wipe dalvik cache. Reboot. See if it works.
slimlo said:
check this page...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1645678
There's a known 'Unknown baseband' bug when you charge the phone and flash new roms. Take out the battery for 180 seconds. Put it back in. Go into recovery wipe cache, format cache, wipe dalvik cache. Reboot. See if it works.
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I just tried, no luck. Right after i do all the stuff IMEI,signal, and baseband seem working fine, but once i do a reboot all the stuff were gone again and need to remove the battery to get those back.

Galaxy S2 screen stuttering then crashing

Dear xda-community,
my galaxy S2 is driving me nuts for some days because of a very weird problem.
After flashing NeatROM 5.3.1 some weeks ago my phone screen suddenly started to stutter for some seconds with losing signal strength. After losing the signal it stuttered again but suddenly crashed and I couldn't start it up again unless I remove the battery and place it back again. Then I went back to Stock ROM after my phone bootlooped for no reason. As I tested stock ROM to ensure the problem does not occur, the screen stuttering happened once again. I just flashed JellySNAP ROM and thought it was over, but here I am with the same problem.
The odd thing is that it only occurs as soon as my phone is losing signal, searching for an available network to connect or going into airplane mode and waiting some moments.
What I did:
Reflash ROM
Wipe cache + Dalvik cache
Full wiped before flashing Custom ROM
Wipe everything and flash Stock ROM
But none of these things helped me fix my problem.
Is there any solution to this problem or does anyone have similar problems?
yomama163 said:
Dear xda-community,
my galaxy S2 is driving me nuts for some days because of a very weird problem.
After flashing NeatROM 5.3.1 some weeks ago my phone screen suddenly started to stutter for some seconds with losing signal strength. After losing the signal it stuttered again but suddenly crashed and I couldn't start it up again unless I remove the battery and place it back again. Then I went back to Stock ROM after my phone bootlooped for no reason. As I tested stock ROM to ensure the problem does not occur, the screen stuttering happened once again. I just flashed JellySNAP ROM and thought it was over, but here I am with the same problem.
The odd thing is that it only occurs as soon as my phone is losing signal, searching for an available network to connect or going into airplane mode and waiting some moments.
What I did:
Reflash ROM
Wipe cache + Dalvik cache
Full wiped before flashing Custom ROM
Wipe everything and flash Stock ROM
But none of these things helped me fix my problem.
Is there any solution to this problem or does anyone have similar problems?
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Clean fully using GS2RomNuke @hawkerpaul then flash a new rom - it's got to be worth a try :good:
Try nuke scrpt.If that doesn't work either,then it must be a hardware issue,which means service center.
Jimsilver73 said:
Clean fully using GS2RomNuke @hawkerpaul then flash a new rom - it's got to be worth a try :good:
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Just tried this out and flashed my ROM again. Somehow froze just right after boot, so I restarted it. But then it stuttered after going into Wi-Fi-Connection screen at the start. Luckily no crash, but I am still worrying about my phone... Gonna report after one day of usage
yomama163 said:
Just tried this out and flashed my ROM again. Somehow froze just right after boot, so I restarted it. But then it stuttered after going into Wi-Fi-Connection screen at the start. Luckily no crash, but I am still worrying about my phone... Gonna report after one day of usage
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yep - reflash stock and use trianglaway to reset flash counter to zero and take back under warranty:good:
Okay guys, thank you very much for helping me out! :good: It looks like the problem still occurs, but at least I know when. Best example: I had about 28% battery lifetime left as this once happened. I just rebooted it and it suddenly told me that I only had 1% of battery left. So I think this is because of my faulty battery stat or even my faulty batteries. Gonna try a new battery just for reference.
Jimsilver73 said:
yep - reflash stock and use trianglaway to reset flash counter to zero and take back under warranty:good:
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Well... I wish I could, the problem is, that I got it as a present some months ago and the real owner of this phone bought the Korean SHW-M250S version some years ago so I don't have any warranty anymore... Perhaps I should just use it until it dies (or the new motorola block phone project is released )

What could be wrong with this phone?(Freezing, restarting, doesn't detect carrier)

Ok hello i'm pretty new to this, but I have looked around quite a bit and nothing seems to help. So my friend gave me this Galaxy S6 edge(more specifically the SM-G925I - TCE Mexico (Telcel)). The issue with this phone is that it freezes then restarts randomly and it also doesn't recognize the carrier. It recognizes that theres a sim but the carrier is not recognized and I don't have access to mobile data. The bigger issue at the moment is the crashes though. I already tried resetting to factory defaults, booting in safe mode, wiping the cache and wiping all the data/ factory reset from the recovery menu. I thought it was the OS or something so I installed twrp wiped EVERYTHING(pretty sure I did since when I rebooted twrp told me if I was sure since I had no os installed) and installed the official 7.0 firmware update from sammobile. It was previously 6.0.1 and I thought having a different version might fix the issue. Yet the issue remains, within a few minutes of me using it it freezes, turns off, and reboots. At this stage I might you might think its a hardware issue but when i'm in recovery or download mode it doesn't turn off. Also I decided to leave it charging when I left for work and when I came back it hadn't turned off at all. I checked the uptime and it was at 7 hours and yet within a few minutes of me checking the settings it froze and turned off. I'm not really sure what to do anymore i'll probably take it to a service center to see whats up but I wanted your opinions first. Thanks.
Sochez said:
Ok hello i'm pretty new to this, but I have looked around quite a bit and nothing seems to help. So my friend gave me this Galaxy S6 edge(more specifically the SM-G925I - TCE Mexico (Telcel)). The issue with this phone is that it freezes then restarts randomly and it also doesn't recognize the carrier. It recognizes that theres a sim but the carrier is not recognized and I don't have access to mobile data. The bigger issue at the moment is the crashes though. I already tried resetting to factory defaults, booting in safe mode, wiping the cache and wiping all the data/ factory reset from the recovery menu. I thought it was the OS or something so I installed twrp wiped EVERYTHING(pretty sure I did since when I rebooted twrp told me if I was sure since I had no os installed) and installed the official 7.0 firmware update from sammobile. It was previously 6.0.1 and I thought having a different version might fix the issue. Yet the issue remains, within a few minutes of me using it it freezes, turns off, and reboots. At this stage I might you might think its a hardware issue but when i'm in recovery or download mode it doesn't turn off. Also I decided to leave it charging when I left for work and when I came back it hadn't turned off at all. I checked the uptime and it was at 7 hours and yet within a few minutes of me checking the settings it froze and turned off. I'm not really sure what to do anymore i'll probably take it to a service center to see whats up but I wanted your opinions first. Thanks.
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*#0*# test if all sensors,cameras,speakers,etc are working.Test wifi,gps,bluetooth.Try to see if charging port is clean inside...

ANE - Can't go through logo screen

Hello guys,
I'm new here.
I rooted the phone a few days ago, it was everything OK. However, when i rebooted the mobile phone, I can't get trough the logo screen. Hard Reset is not working either... eRecovery - wipe data - wipe cache - tried to install the original firmware but i'm not being able to do it.
Any help / sugestions?
Thanks!
miiguelfaria said:
Hello guys,
I'm new here.
I rooted the phone a few days ago, it was everything OK. However, when i rebooted the mobile phone, I can't get trough the logo screen. Hard Reset is not working either... eRecovery - wipe data - wipe cache - tried to install the original firmware but i'm not being able to do it.
Any help / sugestions?
Thanks!
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Which process did you use to install official firmware?

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