Hi everyone !
I'm new here (and not a native english speaker, so apologies in advance for any grammar mistakes)
Before making this thread, I looked for info here, but I'm not sure for what to search.
I'll try to explain my problem here.
I bought a Galaxy SIII from my provider 3 weeks ago and everything looked fine, till last week.
Some times to time, with no apparent reason or cause, while my phone is on sleep mode, on my desk, or in my pocket, playing music, I have the following problem: when I push the on/off button to wake up my phone, my screen is turning on, taking me to the lock screen.
But, my screen brightness is very low, like set to the minimum.
And when I draw my unlocking pattern, screen goes black.
Bottom buttons are lit and my phone seems to be OK, I can feel haptic feedbacks.
But the screen is black.
If I push the on/off button again, screen stays black and bottom buttons are not lit anymore, as a usual Sleep Mode.
If I push on/off again (depending on how much I wait between 2 on/off):
- My phone awakes from Sleep and takes me again to the unlock screen, brightness still very low. And after the unlocking pattern traced, black screen again
- If I didn't wait enought after putting it into sleep mode, in this case, I don't have to redraw the unlocking pattern. I'm back to my home screen...
for 1/4 of a second, stilll with brightness at the minimum. And screen goes black.
And after a serie on onoffonoff, boom, my screen is back to full and normal brightness and everything is OK.
At the beginning, my phone did that once in a while. I thought at the time ti was after pushing the on/off button while using a CPU/RAM hungry app, my phone struggling to recover....
But now, it's totally random.
Depending on .... I don't know what, I have to do the onoffonoff thing 2, 5, 10, 50 times in a row so my phone can recover from is half comatose.
Yesterday, I could not use my phone for half an hour ...
and if someone calls me, I hear the ringtone, but screen stays black.
I can answer the call (but not knowing who's calling) by sliding on the part of the screen where the slider normally is.
Funny thing is about removing the battery. It doesn't solve my problem.
When I do so, my phone boots, I see the "Samsung Galaxy SIII" boot screen, on low brightness (whih is not normal ...)
After that, I normally have another boot screen with my provider's logo and tone. But screen goes black again (but I still here the tone)
Then I realized it started to happen when my phone proposed me a Samsung update.
I tried to reset my phone to factory settings but it didn't work, the update was still here.
For a while I thought my problem was solved, because my phone behaved normally for 3 or 4 hours, without problem.
But it came back.
I found on the internet several "almost-same-problems" without proposed solutions.
Like checking if the proximity sensor was blocked by a protective transparent plastic sheet, or a case.
I tried to to remove mine.
Didn't work.
Some people said it was linked to their phone trying to acquire a wifi network.
My wifi on or off, withiin or without the range of a wifi router didn't work ...
I tried to note things down about what I did, when, how, app launched before the problem appears.
I checked battery info (temp, voltage, etc).
No pattern emerged.
So.
Hs anyone of you enountered the same problem ?
Do you have ideas, solutions I can use ?
Or maybe a voodoo prayer ?
I could sent it back to my provider which will bounce it back to Samsung. But it will take ages (3 to 4 weeks ...) :'(
Thanks in advance !
do a factory reset, go completely stock
if that doesn't help, send it in
Glebun said:
do a factory reset, go completely stock
if that doesn't help, send it in
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That's what I did.
I tried by going into the Parameters menu, and reseting.
I tried by booting my phone with Vol+ / Home / Power buttons to access a console mode and do a wipe data/reset.
The problem is that my phone got an update like one week ago from a 4.?.? to 4.1.2.
And even with a reset, my phone reboot with the 4.1.2 version, which seems to cause this problem.
Or maybe not, but I can't be sure.
As I said, after a factory reset I did yesterday, everything went well for 3 or 4 hours and the problem reappeared.
send it to the service
Hello people,
I flash the ROM "CM 10.1 (Android 4.2) for Atrix" with the new kernel today and at the beginning everything worked fine.
But after a few minutes setting up the phone, the screen started shaking a moment until the display turn off (turn off but the phone is still working as if the touch also responds and physical keys are lit). When locking and unlocking the phone, the screen returns to normal.
I realized that the longer I leave it off, the longer it takes to give this bug, after turn on the screen again.
The brightness is at maximum and the phone is not too hot.
At least the phone stopped rebooting but play or do anything else is impossible (I can only make calls) because of this bug.
Any idea why this is happening?
My S2 boots up fine (screen very bright and animation color not natural) after finishing boot the soft keys lights up but the screen goes black. When i press the home button the screen just flickers, shows the screen for a split second then goes black.Sometimes after many attempts pressing the power button it wakes but screen at full brightness and color is not natural. When i try to press the screen brightness to adjust it goes black immediately.
What i have tried so far, bought a new LCD screen and replace but problem persists. So its not a LCD problem. It was running stock ICS so i flash stock JB after wiping, no help. Root with Philz kernel but when i go to recovery screen goes black so i try Speedmod kernel with CWM recovery and the screen shows the Recovery menu I try to flash a custom rom (can't remember which one) but it won't boot up stuck at splash screen.I even flash GB and ICS stock still no luck.
The phone works fine calls can still get through, download mode screen and recovery screen ok. I actually have not use this phone for a year but the last time i use use it was working fine.
Google all the different Samsung device if anyone has this problem but no one seem to have the problem that i have so maybe if anyone knows or suggest anything else which i haven't tried.
Thanks for viewing
I have found the root of my problem, the damn brightness control in settings is not working. Brightness is at full, unable to set to auto or manually dim the screen.
Screen will only wake with black background. Have to tear apart the phone and figure whats wrong
Hi all,
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9305T rooted and running Android 4.3 with Touchwizz.
The problem I am having is that the screen will not turn off and pressing the power button will not lock the phone. Holding the power button will bring up the device options menu (power off, restart etc) indicating that the button itself is still functioning.
Restarting the device will boot to the lock screen, however the screen still wont turn off and after unlocking the phone once, you can no longer lock the phone.
In the phones settings, under battery it shows that it doesn't even register the screen as being on or the phone being awake (see image) however the phone is still completely functional aside from the issues stated above.
This problem occurred after accidentally dialling emergency services from the lock screen while watching a video on my computer and absent mindedly spinning my phone in my fingers. As soon as I saw it was dialling I cancelled the call and took the battery out. When I started the phone I noticed the screen wouldn't turn off and the phone wouldn't lock.
Hoping I wont have to do a factory reset, if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Have same problem with my Alcatel Onetouch Fierce 2. Fairly certain it's from this Kingroot in my case. However I don't know enough to prove this. I started using apps to lock the screen for me but they started not working as well.
Hi,
My Galaxy S7 froze up this morning, and when I hard rebooted it the screen will either flicker green lines, or slowly fades into green bars. This happens whether it's in the OS, recovery mode, download mode, or anywhere in between.
The fingerprint reader and touchscreen still works, since I can hear the unlock sound from fingerprint or pattern.
A few hours ago the screen started working again for a few minutes, and stayed fine through a reboot from recovery mode into normal OS, but then went back to how it was.
The phone is rooted, and I had been running the phone in greyscale mode for the last week using CF Lumen.
Do I need to fully replace the front display and digitiser to repair this?