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Hi Guys!
I have a bit of a problem.
My phone ran out of battery, and when i plugged it in to charge, it shows the battery icon for about 3 seconds, tries to boot up & runs out of power, and it just continues doing this over and over. I left it for a little while and noticed that the top of the phone got very hot (front & back)
I am running CM7 which appeared to be running fine, and one thing to note is that the phone recently almost died but recovered from water damage.
Anyone know whats up and how i fix it?
Thanks!
When you say it had water damage, what happened? Sounds like to me that maybe the problem.
I lost it at a party and it was outside all night, and it rained all night, i dried it for a few days and turned it on and the touchscreen wasnt working. I then sent it off to vodafone and they tried and 'failed' to fix it, but when i got it back i turned it on and it was working fine.
I just plugged it in again and it booted up and is charging whilst booted up... i think it is a software problem... should i try deleting the battery cache or whatever it is?
hazlynch said:
I lost it at a party and it was outside all night, and it rained all night, i dried it for a few days and turned it on and the touchscreen wasnt working. I then sent it off to vodafone and they tried and 'failed' to fix it, but when i got it back i turned it on and it was working fine.
I just plugged it in again and it booted up and is charging whilst booted up... i think it is a software problem... should i try deleting the battery cache or whatever it is?
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Is the battery holding a charge? Check in settings - about phone - status.
When you unplug the charger does it turn off straight away?
You can try deleting battery stats if you like, it will do no harm. But I don't think it will help.
Yeah the phone stays on when unplugged and has charged up properly, and its holding charge pretty well.
At least its working but i'm pretty confused as to why its doing this
hazlynch said:
Yeah the phone stays on when unplugged and has charged up properly, and its holding charge pretty well.
At least its working but i'm pretty confused as to why its doing this
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IT Got wet and something is fried .Probably to do with the charging .
You could and i would wipe the phone and put a stock rom on that will at least rule out software problems .
Try a different charger .
jje
hazlynch said:
Yeah the phone stays on when unplugged and has charged up properly, and its holding charge pretty well.
At least its working but i'm pretty confused as to why its doing this
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Just hope it keeped working I suppose. I wouldn't be surprised if it stopped working one day though.
If it was me I would take it apart and use use some electrical cleaner.
My friend and I both have Rezounds. I have yet to get the update, he had Scott's ICS ROM on his. The update forced itself onto his phone and bricked it. When he went to the store, the reps told him the update seems to be doing this to alot of people (rep said they saw 10 of them today!). Anyone else have the OTA brick a ROM's phone or even stock?
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My friend and I both have Rezounds. I have yet to get the update, he had Scott's ICS ROM on his. The update forced itself onto his phone and bricked it. When he went to the store, the reps told him the update seems to be doing this to alot of people (rep said they saw 10 of them today!). Anyone else have the OTA brick a ROM's phone or even stock?
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No, but I am sure if you have a custom recovery on your phone with a custom rom an official update sure isn't going to help ..but I figured it would just error out. How did it brick it ? he was unable to load Hboot anymore ?
It went to the HTC screen and stayed there, when tried to go-to recovery it wouldn't work, eventually screen went black and wouldn't turn on, or even charge!
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durthquake said:
It went to the HTC screen and stayed there, when tried to go-to recovery it wouldn't work, eventually screen went black and wouldn't turn on, or even charge!
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Could you get into hboot and run the ruu? If you can do that, the phone isn't bricked...
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durthquake said:
It went to the HTC screen and stayed there, when tried to go-to recovery it wouldn't work, eventually screen went black and wouldn't turn on, or even charge!
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I suspect the no charging is due to running the battery down all the way. There's a thread or two about that issue. I think the solution was to pull the battery, plug in the charger then put the battery back in while phone is connected to charger. Then you might have to wait up to 30 minutes for the light to turn on and for it to start charging.
And yeah, if you can boot into hboot you should be able to get the phone back with RUU or if the ROM is fine then flash Amon Ra recovery in fastboot.
It didn't allow anything to be done in hboot. It won't even turn on now, i have him my battery to try and still doesn't turn on.
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Well read through this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1434532
and see if you can at least get it charged up again. Then go from there.
Both me and my wife have had the OTA for at least a week and we have not had any issues with the OTA.
Also, I must say, this is the first time I have heard of the OTA causing bricking of the unit.
If you can't get it charged, try the writing hack to get it involved. Basically you just take a regular usb cable and snip the connector off. From there you take the ground and the power, and then you put the ground and power to the battery in the respective places. Worked for a bad Atrix flash that killed my battery.
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I hadn't heard of it bricking it till I saw it first hand... As far as charging, it's a non issue since I have my friend my fully charged battery to try and wouldn't turn on. (Note that this is happened only after it stayed on the HTC screen for about 30 minutes, so it may have overheated or something during that time?)
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It bricked my stock Rezound. Could not have happened on a worse day to. I had to do a factory reset to get it to come back. Real PIA
Chris
drtnsnw said:
It bricked my stock Rezound. Could not have happened on a worse day to. I had to do a factory reset to get it to come back. Real PIA
Chris
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That's not a brick. That's a pain in the ass.
tekhna said:
That's not a brick. That's a pain in the ass.
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a brick is just what it is.. a brick.
which means the phone is done. you can't use it again.
durthquake said:
It went to the HTC screen and stayed there, when tried to go-to recovery it wouldn't work, eventually screen went black and wouldn't turn on, or even charge!
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If it can get to the HTC screen, it isn't bricked. Put your battery in his phone and see if it can get to HBOOT.
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I hadn't heard of it bricking it till I saw it first hand... As far as charging, it's a non issue since I have my friend my fully charged battery to try and wouldn't turn on. (Note that this is happened only after it stayed on the HTC screen for about 30 minutes, so it may have overheated or something during that time?)
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I don't think you can write off the battery/charging issue. It takes some time for people who have let their battery fully drain to get the phone to charge it again although they were able charge on an external charger iirc. Anyway, point is it may be the phone not the battery that needs to "wake up" (for lack of a better term) again.
So definitely go through that dead battery charging thread and try everything in there to get the phone to charge the battery again. Then you'll know the phone is functioning as it should, atm it may not be.
I don't understand how the the OTA forced itself since all of Scotts ROMs are debloated. Everyone that rooted and debloated running stock, said that the update failed in recovery, I know I witnessed it on mine. Being on an ICS build, one would think that the update wouldn't even be downloaded.
yeah it is strange. Even if I force check for update on my Rez the update doesn't come. Are you sure your friend is telling you the whole story?
con247 said:
yeah it is strange. Even if I force check for update on my Rez the update doesn't come. Are you sure your friend is telling you the whole story?
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I am said friend.
Durthquake sits in the cube next to me. He watched the whole event transpire.
Here's what happened and what was tried and the resolution,
Rezound reboots to the HTC screen. Won't show the think brilliantly words. Just stayed on HTC.
So I did a battery pull and rebooted phone and same thing. Just HTC.
Now I reboot to recovery, get hboot and try to do a wipe. It blinks like its going to try to go to recovery then turns off.
Do another battery pull boot maneuver and it does the same thing.
As we are at work I did have to work so I leave it on the stock wall charger for about an hour and try to turn on again. HTC screen so I leave it to see what happens, maybe I didn't wait long enough.
Like 35 minutes later screen goes black.
Now it won't power on, won't go to hboot, basically a brick. So I pull my battery give it to durthquake who gives me his rezound battery. His phone turns on, mine doesn't.
Now I try pulling sim, sdcard, and putting my battery back in. Still nada. Phone be properly bricked.
Bring it home put sim, sdcard, and battery back in and put on HTC wall charger overnight. In the am nothing. Still a pretty beats brick.
Go to vzw and the try charging turning on etc. Nada. They say since the ota they've had about 5 of these in.
The resolution is vzw sending me a new rezound and I buying a new phone so I can give the resound to my gf.
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Hey guy, i was running CM9 nightly from a couple days ago and have been on the cm9 other roms since around mid january.
My phone started bogging down really slow and then i restarted it which took forever and when it finally restarted there was some crap about your device cannot be encrypted and needs a factory reset. So i then went for another reboot to go to CWM to restore a nandroid and it got stuck at splash screen.
I pulled the battery after a while and now i have absolutely nothing and can't even get the screen to turn on. i tried charging all night to see if it had just died to no luck.
Any tips?
the4finger said:
Hey guy, i was running CM9 nightly from a couple days ago and have been on the cm9 other roms since around mid january.
My phone started bogging down really slow and then i restarted it which took forever and when it finally restarted there was some crap about your device cannot be encrypted and needs a factory reset. So i then went for another reboot to go to CWM to restore a nandroid and it got stuck at splash screen.
I pulled the battery after a while and now i have absolutely nothing and can't even get the screen to turn on. i tried charging all night to see if it had just died to no luck.
Any tips?
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Download mode?
Tried another charged battery?
can't get download mode and I have tried my old normal sized battery of which I'm not sure of its charge to no luck
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the4finger said:
can't get download mode and I have tried my old normal sized battery of which I'm not sure of its charge to no luck
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Try USb jig
and try charging battery from external charger or a new battery
What u said in op can't brick a phone
Just tried a jig and got nothing on both batteries. i have the phone connected to a charger with the original battery and it's heating up ALOT in the top section near the camera.
I work with someone that has an SII so i might try their battery tomorrow if not i'm at ends with what could possibly have happened
Tried a battery of my workmate and still nothing.
I think the main board may be gone because it's giving me nothing
EDIT: Alirght since no one can seem to help me is there any repairers in australia for the hardware side of things?
So you didn't use stock battery, that maybe busted your phone
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so your saying the Samsung 2000mah battery busted it? If so I'd be the first!
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Oh it was samsung's battery. Well then chances battery causing your problem are much slimmer
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I really thought I would find some answers by search but nothing came up... everyone seems to have some kind of screen working but mine is simply dead.
My phone is completely dead this morning, went to bed with battery almost full (unplugged) and woke up to a black screen and no reaction to anything whatsoever. Removing the battery, plugging charger, plugging in a computer, nothing seems to work.
The phone has been rooted for a while (only rooted, nothing else installed/changed)
aside from sending it for jtag, is there anything else I can try?
theBeachBoy said:
I really thought I would find some answers by search but nothing came up... everyone seems to have some kind of screen working but mine is simply dead.
My phone is completely dead this morning, went to bed with battery almost full (unplugged) and woke up to a black screen and no reaction to anything whatsoever. Removing the battery, plugging charger, plugging in a computer, nothing seems to work.
The phone has been rooted for a while (only rooted, nothing else installed/changed)
aside from sending it for jtag, is there anything else I can try?
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Are you able to go into download mode? If not there's two of us.
My sisters S2 was at 76% battery when the phone shutdown suddenly. And after she noticed that her phone was turned off, it wont turn on again.. no recovery, no download, no bootlogo nothing.
The only sign of life is that the upper half of her S2 is a little bit warmer then the lower half, nothing else..
Can some1 maybe explain why this happened? Thanks in advance!
Greetz Patrick
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Why does it happen ? Your guess is as good as anyone else's. Like any other electronics, phone's fail randomly for no apparent reason.
You're only going to find out if it can be JTAG'd if you send it to a JTAG repairer, otherwise it will be a hardware issue, and given a lot of stuff is on the motherboard, they generally replace that.
Is there anything else you can do if you're getting absolutely nothing out of the phone (no boot, no DL mode, no recovery) ? No.
Unfortunately I don't think there's anything you can do if you can't even boot into download mode.... Also I'm afraid there's a chance they are not gonna fix or replace your phone for free because it's rooted, even if the problem is hardware related. Good luck.
patpeewee said:
My sisters S2 was at 76% battery when the phone shutdown suddenly. And after she noticed that her phone was turned off, it wont turn on again.. no recovery, no download, no bootlogo nothing.
The only sign of life is that the upper half of her S2 is a little bit warmer then the lower half, nothing else..
Can some1 maybe explain why this happened? Thanks in advance!
Greetz Patrick
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Sans here. When plugged in it gets a little warm on the top above the battery and that's it. Absolutely nothing else.
I guess I'll send it for jtag...too bad phone is not hacked yet on the N7 just the SMS works or I'd use the tablet for now.
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exactly the same deal here (except I was at work, got a call, put the phone back on the desk, 30 mins later phone won't awake from sleep and no reaction when plugged or anything).
I'd say the Maya predicted the apocalypse for our GS2... I'll send it back for repair next Monday, but going back to my old Nokia N95 feels very, very, very bad.
Here's how it happened :
Flashed latest Dorimanx kernel last night on the latest Disaster Rom and then began texting,watching some youtube,usual stuff and then went to sleep.
In the morning I couldn't turn it on.
Then I hold the power button but it went bootlooping and kept staying on that Dorimanx starting image.
I succesfully booted and it showed battery at 9% ( it was at 90% when I went to bed).
My first thought was to wipe cache so I did that.But here's the problem.
It got stuck at wiping cache and nothing happened so I removed the battery and then it was dead.No sign of life.
So my question is: It's completely bricked and I can get it returned whitout them knowing that I have been using custom ROM's ?
Cheers
alex6vasy said:
Here's how it happened :
Flashed latest Dorimanx kernel last night on the latest Disaster Rom and then began texting,watching some youtube,usual stuff and then went to sleep.
In the morning I couldn't turn it on.
Then I hold the power button but it went bootlooping and kept staying on that Dorimanx starting image.
I succesfully booted and it showed battery at 9% ( it was at 90% when I went to bed).
My first thought was to wipe cache so I did that.But here's the problem.
It got stuck at wiping cache and nothing happened so I removed the battery and then it was dead.No sign of life.
So my question is: It's completely bricked and I can get it returned whitout them knowing that I have been using custom ROM's ?
Cheers
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Did you tried to charge it for at least 20 minutes?
If it won't charge, try to replace battery...
Bootloop is not a big deal (wipes will do the job) try replace/charge battery first, then if you still have problems just flash stock via odin and start over...
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
alex6vasy said:
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
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check the battery voltage, and or charge the battery externally. make sure its not a power issue first.
And what we're trying to say is try another battery. If that doesn't work, finita la musica.
alex6vasy said:
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
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MistahBungle said:
And what we're trying to say is try another battery. If that doesn't work, finita la musica.
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Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with me for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
That's nice. I've had my phone 15 months & had zero problems with it. Funny about that (there's a hint in there for people clever enough to figure it out).
kl13710 said:
I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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kl13710 said:
Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with my life for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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They make the best phones.You could maybe try another brand.
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{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
kl13710 said:
Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with my life for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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Get a Nokia 3310, It should be more suited to you.
Oh, you bought it.........
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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Hey no worries bro I have bricked 2 sgs2's already and 1 sgs3. Yours is not bricked, happened to me as well. All you must do is connect usb to pc, while keeping the battery out. Then try turn it on normally. then, while it is on, insert your battery again and leave it to charge via usb for a while(tille batt is at least 85%, what I did). Then, before unplugging usb, turn phone off. Unplug usb and go into recovery and flash as per usual. You should be good now. Hope it helps.
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Hey no worries bro I have bricked 2 sgs2's already and 1 sgs3. Yours is not bricked, happened to me as well. All you must do is connect usb to pc, while keeping the battery out. Then try turn it on normally. then, while it is on, insert your battery again and leave it to charge via usb for a while(tille batt is at least 85%, what I did). Then, before unplugging usb, turn phone off. Unplug usb and go into recovery and flash as per usual. You should be good now. Hope it helps.
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Tried but no luck