Ok, A friend needs to me fix there galaxy note. It will boot to the samsung logo, then to the greener samsung logo, then the screen just goes black. I can get it into download mode, but after like 3 seconds the screen goes black also, and the pc dont reconize the device at all.. if i plug the usb in.
any suggestions, ive never seen this before.
How is your battery? Was the phone rooted? What was done to cause this?
Sounds like a stuck power button. Try tapping the power button quickly a bunch of times. Or try flicking the back of the phone by the power button with your finger.
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Hi,
This is about my Samsung Vibrant. I flashed a new rom onto it and after the regular installation the screen turned black and would not turn back on. Like nothing works. No lights, no anything, like the power button hasn't even been touched.
Is my phone bricked? Is there any fix to this?
Thanks
what do you mean black screen? as in no power at all? Even when charging the phone?
Yeah. Like it looks like the phone is off. Just black
have you tried removing the battery then going to DL mode?
I've tried all three button combinations.
Removing the battery and then holding the two volume buttons and inserting the battery then pluging it into my computer.
Nothing seems to work. The phone is unresponsive and the screen remains black the whole time. The four lights on the bottom of the screen don't even light up.
Hmm, let's wait for the others but i think....
Guide in signature should help
2. Remove everything from your phone (SD card, sim, battery).
3. Plug your phone into your computer WITHOUT the battery, as you have already taken it out in the last step.
4. Press and HOLD vol. up and vol. down.
5. As you are HOLDING these buttons, reattach your battery.
6. You should be in Download Mode.
This is under the NO-BOOT phones.
I tried and it doesn't put it into download mode. If I can get it back to download mode it would be golden.
I think they've rigged things to force download mode haven't they?i don't know if it will help but it might be worth a shot
Still flashing , thanks to odin
Check my guide under the troubleshooting section, it should have a link to the "Soldering Method" and THAT will force it into DL mode.
But I'd advise you to CAREFULLY follow my steps again before spending time and money on the soldering methdo x) Just a thought
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If your phone screen is always black, that is it does not display the white Galaxy S/Samsung/AT&T logo when you switch it on, then sorry, this jig will not help you.
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So...... yeah
My phone is a Telus t959D
I am stuck at the phone--!--PC screen. 3 button combo does not work, please do not give me other 3 button combos because it will not work. I think i need to fix this battery problem first and the download mode will come itself.
Plugging it in to the usb gives me a screen with an empty grey battery, with the progress circle in the middle frozen.
I cannot go into download mode because when i connect the usb, the grey battery pops up.
If i turn the phone on with no usb, i get the phone--!--pc screen.
Making another thread on the wrong section with the same question should discourage people to help you.
Furthermore, people already gave you answers in the previous thread
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So to clarify, you pulled the battery, then with one end of your USB cable plugged into the computer, held down your volume down button, then plugged in the other end of your USB cable to your phone (you should still be holding the volume down button) and after a few seconds you're still not getting into download mode?
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Have you tried the above? Odin messed up a flash for me once and got soft bricked like yours, but I was able to get back to Odin via the above method. If volume down doesn't work, try volume up.
Otherwise, if neither works, just accept your phones fate and either get a USB jig off ebay or send your phone back in. Next time, stick to stock
half alseep, i attempted to update my tab the "official" way with the software update options. it downloaded in the background pleasantly enough, then prompted a reboot, ok i said.
after seeing that good old galaxy tab 10.1 boot logo, the logo was replaced with a slightly larger one.
for a split second i saw a load bar at the bottom of the screen, i only saw "9%" before it vanished, replaced with a totally black screen
"that's fine" i said "probably just silently installing"
twenty minutes with no change later i was getting worried
i did a hard reset (holding the power button for 8 seconds) since that's basically all i can do.
it got to the boot image and went straight to a black screen with the backlight on, same as before.
i attempted to get into recovery (power+volume down) but the green android never appears, it just cycles through the boot logo over and over again.
plugging it in doesn't work, my system doesn't see it at all as far as i know
plugging it in and trying to boot recovery also does not work
is it bricked?
i don't think i'll ever do official updates ever again, this is pitiful
badumtss. This is why I hate kies. Basically when you boot it up, it goes directly to black screen is it?
Misledz said:
badumtss. This is why I hate kies. Basically when you boot it up, it goes directly to black screen is it?
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not quite, it displays the original boot logo (the slightly smaller "galaxy tab 10.1" logo) for a few seconds before going to black screen
Are you using correct technique to get into recovery/ download? If you keep holding the buttons down it will just keep cycling through boot as you describe. Did you release as soon as logo appears? Sounds like your hard reset interrupted the update and you're missing full boot partition or system partition. If your " hold down the buttons" was at fault and you do get into recovery etc maybe odin is the way forward... just a thought. Also your long press on power might be putting the tab in apx mode, have you tried that and then seen if it is visible to nvflash?
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i let the battery run down to zero after reading some technique to un-brick which required it, until i just read here about how recovery is when you let go of pwr+vol down right as the logo pops up, not waiting for the green android logo.
so, i plugged it in and tried that.
the result is;
it'll power up, show the battery charging image with the little loading circle (i guess it's fetching the battery status) but the battery status never loads. instead it flashes the galaxy tab 10.1 logo for a split second and then back to the black screen of death.
i'll attempt again when the battery has more juice
damn!
after letting the battery charge up some more i tried going into recovery again.
same problem;
hold down power and volume down (the side of the volume rocker closest to the power button)
wait for the logo to appear
as soon as "samsung galaxy tab 10.1" appears, i let go
but it STILL sits there for a second, then flashes the slightly larger boot logo before going to a black screen
damnit damnit! do i have a paperweight? i really want to punch whoever authored that update.
EDIT: a possibly related issue, i cannot turn off the tablet anymore. if i hold down the power button to turn it off, it just cycles back into a boot.
Might wanna try my draining method, I posted it somewhere here, must be in page 3-4, Ill bump it up
I'm having a similar issue, basically everything the same except it doesn't go black after the logo comes up, the back light gets slightly brighter and the logo stays there. It also wont turn off, unless I have it charging then unplug it.. the update was interrupted by me accidentally going into recovery(at least I think it was. It could have just been by pressing the power down because I haven't done a system update before, so I don't know what all happens), then it went into download and was stuck on the odin interface. I did a hard reboot, and then it started buggering up. How does an update interruption brick your tab? What kind of person makes something that can do that.. lol.
OK! Problem solved guys, sorry for "spamming", lol. Just flashed it back to stock.. now to try different ROMs for the first time. Thanks!
I have an s3 that has been rooted running a custom rom perfectly for about 5 months.
Today I was using my phone and it locked up - totally froze..screen was frozen and everything was unresponsive. So I pulled the battery.
When I put the battery back in my phone displayed the Samsung logo and after that just displays a black screen.
I can put the phone in download mode, however it will only be on the download screen for about 3 seconds before the phone either turns off or the screen goes black.
The really weird thing is, when I put the battery into my phone it will instantly boot up (I don't have to hold download the power button). The power button is NOT stuck in the down position.
I know the battery is charged. So what in the hell happened? I don't know if my phone is bricked or not. I could re-flash it but I can't do anything in download mode because of it turning off.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
irodex said:
I have an s3 that has been rooted running a custom rom perfectly for about 5 months.
Today I was using my phone and it locked up - totally froze..screen was frozen and everything was unresponsive. So I pulled the battery.
When I put the battery back in my phone displayed the Samsung logo and after that just displays a black screen.
I can put the phone in download mode, however it will only be on the download screen for about 3 seconds before the phone either turns off or the screen goes black.
The really weird thing is, when I put the battery into my phone it will instantly boot up (I don't have to hold download the power button). The power button is NOT stuck in the down position.
I know the battery is charged. So what in the hell happened? I don't know if my phone is bricked or not. I could re-flash it but I can't do anything in download mode because of it turning off.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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what about recovery mode? does that work?
the power button can be shorted even though the button is not pressed
Sounds like SDS send it for repair.
KayKrate said:
Sounds like SDS send it for repair.
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no, it really doesn't
lefttobleed said:
what about recovery mode? does that work?
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When it tries to enter recovery mode I get the black screen as well
take out the battery. insert it after atleast 5 minutes. i've read somewhere that S3 is sensitive to the order of the keys we hold to enter download or recovery modes. so to enter download mode, 1st hold HOME button, then VOLUME DOWN button and then the POWER button. (not sure i did this all the time but no problem for me till now). good luck
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Hey guys, I'm desperate for help. I am running Slimbean 4.3 on my Vibrant, and last night while I was just browsing Reddit in an app, my phone shuts off immediately with no warning, no shut down sequence, and plenty of battery charge left. Now it just sticks on the Vibrant boot screen, restarting every 20 seconds or so if I try to turn it on, or if I plug it in it just stays at the spinning circle. I am unable to enter recovery mode through all the button combinations I have tried. The best result I have had is taking the battery out, holding up/down volume, then inserting the battery. This gets me to the "downloading, do not turn of target!!!" screen, but I cant get past that screen. The only computer I have access to is a mac, so I have't been able to try anything using ODIN. Does anyone have any tips or advice, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now with Christmas coming up. Thanks a lot guys.
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Hey guys, I'm desperate for help. I am running Slimbean 4.3 on my Vibrant, and last night while I was just browsing Reddit in an app, my phone shuts off immediately with no warning, no shut down sequence, and plenty of battery charge left. Now it just sticks on the Vibrant boot screen, restarting every 20 seconds or so if I try to turn it on, or if I plug it in it just stays at the spinning circle. I am unable to enter recovery mode through all the button combinations I have tried. The best result I have had is taking the battery out, holding up/down volume, then inserting the battery. This gets me to the "downloading, do not turn of target!!!" screen, but I cant get past that screen. The only computer I have access to is a mac, so I have't been able to try anything using ODIN. Does anyone have any tips or advice, I really can't afford to buy another phone right now with Christmas coming up. Thanks a lot guys.
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Usually it send the phone to download mode when you have a USB or charger cable plugged in. Make sure you have that port clear then try it. Mac's can run Hemidall (I think that's how you spell it) which is like an odin equivalent. I don't have much experience with that but someone else here might. Try researching that as well. That should put you on the right track