My Verizon Galaxy S4 died today (RIP). All my attempts to revive it have failed.
When it died, it was on and charging with the stock cable and adapter. The phone would not wake from sleep, which is when I noticed it was fairly hot. It did attempt to boot when I held the power button, but did not complete boot and hasn't powered on since. I've tried pulling the battery for 5 minutes and replacing, using Volume Up/Home/Power, booting from charger without battery, booting from charger with battery, and tried charging it a while. No attempts have been successful, and in all instances the phone gets very hot around the camera after about a minute of being connected to the charger.
Luckily the phone is only 6 days old so I should be covered. Still, for a phone of repute to die this quickly is alarming. I should also mention that this occurred while using stock everything (ROM/Bootloader/Kernel/Firmware/Unrooted/etc). I've seen that there are a number of reports related to charging, and Samsung's move to offer free batteries to GS4 owners makes me think they know there's a problem with their charger IC.
Has anyone else had an issue like this of overheat leading to death?
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I just got a refurb Atrix as a replacement, and it's got a problem charging the battery (or something).
When I first opened the box, I plugged the Atrix in for a few hours. Unplugged it, tried to boot it up, and nothing. Plugged it back in, and it says the battery is still at 5%.
So I tried it on 3 different outlets, 2 different wall chargers (including the Atrix charger), and hooked up to my PC, removing the battery and SIM card a bunch of times as well. Won't boot while unplugged.
If I leave the phone on the wall charger, I can boot into Android, but the second I remove the charger cable, it dies. If I boot into Android using the wall charger, and leave it up for a few minutes, the battery % will jump from 5% to 100% instantly, but it still dies if I unplug it.
I took it to an ATT store, but they didn't have any replacement batteries. He tried it on his charger, and while it was off, it displayed the battery jumping from %5 to 100%, but that's the only time it has done it.
I've read through a lot of battery problem threads on here, but nothing seems to quite fit the bill. I've already called to have another replacement sent, but I wanted to know if anybody on here has had this problem and knows a possible solution, so I can at least use the phone while I await the replacement. I can't tell if this is a battery issue, phone issue, or, after having read some threads on here, possibly a software issue.
EDIT: Replaced the battery with one from a Droid X2. Worked fine. Battery was the problem.
Have you tried calibrating?
No, I haven't tried calibrating. I left the phone on the charger for a few more hours, and now it shuts off almost immediately when it boots up, even though it's plugged in, so I don't think I'll be able to.
So, my phone's got the standard stock rom, I rooted it, but never flashed it, it has always worked great and hasn't given me any trouble until last night.
I got back from a trip inside my country where it worked great. Then it started running low on battery and shut down.
I went to a friend's house and he had this black berry charger. I pluged it to my phone to charge it and when I tried to turn it on it went on to the "Samsung Galaxy S 2" black and white screen, and started looping on it.
The only "new" "rare" or out of the ordinary thing to it was I had plugged the phone to a blutooth ear piece I bought the day before.
Any ideas?
Has anyone had this same situation?
I looked in the forum, but it seems every loop problem comes out of flashing new roms.
Thanks in advance.
It's possible it could be a battery problem. There have been several threads of boot problems with a fully discharged battery. Sometimes the phone itself can not recharge the battery, and the fix is to use a fully charged other battery, or maybe to buy an external charger for the battery. Not sure if the blackberry charger would have caused a problem. As long as it's a micro usb charger I would think it would be ok.
I have never had a problem like this myself, just reporting some things I have read other people say.
It's likely the voltage is different enough to make the phone unhappy. Can you plug into a PC instead if you don't have access to a "real" charger? It will take forever to charge, but I'll bet it takes care of the boot issue...
I seem to be having issues charging my Galaxy S3. I plug it into the Samsung wall charger and it starts to charge but stops after about 10 seconds. So I figure there is an issue with the charger, but then I plug my Blackberry into the same charger and it charges just fine. Using the blackberry charger it does the same thing on the S3. The phone does seem to charge via USB on my PC but its extremely slow. So I really don't know what to do to fix this issue.
Currently I am using the Samsung spare battery kit, the one that you place the battery alone in and it charges, it charges the battery to 100% without any issue using the same cable the phone is having a issue with. I've had the phone since about June and never had any issue like this.
Would a factory reset help my issue? The reason I am apprehensive to that is, with Androids it seems a factory reset means losing EVERYTHING on the phone. As you can imagine 3 months worth of apps etc will take a really long time to restore, and if it doesn't work then a real pain.
Does anyone know how I can fix this issue? I've tried rebooting many times and also tried charging while the phone is off and all that does is show the batter logo with a 'refresh' symbol in it for a second then the screen switches off.
Hello. I'm a new member here. So my phone couldn't be turned on, i guess it was caused by the age (it aged 5 years). Before this phone couldn't be turned on, it was in a low battery situation, then i plugged to the wall which made the battery percentage increased to 67%, then i unplugged it and used it until the operating system crash (hang) about an hour, so i decided to pull and plug the battery. When it's booting, it gets bootloop. So i decided to pull and plug the battery again. Now it won't turn on at all. But after I checked using multimeter, it seems to reach the normal volt which is 3,7v. I tried vol up+home+power(screen is blank), vol down+home+power(screen still blank), charging it to pc(no battery notifications), cleaning the yellow battery parts (idk what it's called) also the port, tried a new battery, tried charging it to the wall, and nothing happened. When it was charging, it created a great heat. Note that this phone had never been rooted, exposed to sunlight, splashed water, etc. Maybe i need a new phone?? Lol i don't have enough budget right now.
A couple of days ago I replaced the battery on my Poco F1, because the phone is 2.5 years old and AccuBattery reckoned it was at 71% health. There were no issues with the phone, only that the battery life wasn’t as good as it once was (it was still running from 100% - 0% battery charge).
I bought the battery from AliExpress (this one to be precise) and the process of switching it out was easy and faultless, as far as I could tell.
The reassembled phone booted up fine and the new battery was at ~ 50% capacity. On the AliExpress listing it said to run the battery flat, which is what I did and it lasted quite a few hours - all good.
I then recharged the phone to full, as stated in the instructions. Regretfully, I interrupted the first recharge a couple of times by unplugging the phone for a few minutes each time. I'm telling you this for full disclosure - I'm unsure if this is likely to have caused the problem that I am now facing.
The fully recharged phone lasted a few hours and then shut itself down, whilst on ~ 70% battery I believe. This was the first time I realised there was a problem. The phone would not turn back on - holding down the power button and/or any combination of volume buttons did absolutely nothing. However, plugging the phone in caused the battery charging screen to appear instantly and subsequently, holding the power button whilst still plugged in would turn the phone on as normal. The phone would then boot up and battery percentage would be at ~70%, as it was when it shutdown (once booted, volume keys work fine). The phone would appear to charge as normal, but whenever I unplugged the phone, it would eventually shutdown on a high percentage after anything from a few seconds up to around an hour.
I thought I must have gotten a dodgy battery, so I took it out and put the original one back in. Now the old battery has all of the same symptoms as the new one – it won’t turn on unless plugged in and randomly shuts down after a period of time. If I manually turn the phone off when unplugged, it won’t turn back on unless it is plugged in. Also, a reboot just shuts it down.
I happened to have a spare charging port board, so I put that in to see if I’d fried something on there, but that hasn’t helped.
I’m tempted to reset the phone to stock (currently running Pixel Experience with TWRP installed) but am worried that it will brick the phone if it tries to reboot during the flashing process. Also, I believe that the fact I can’t force boot into fastboot with volume down/power buttons proves it is a hardware issue?
Any ideas are very welcome.
I think unless you have access to an EDL authorised account it's better to not flash MIUI at this stage. Risk of bricking the device...
07lema said:
A couple of days ago I replaced the battery on my Poco F1, because the phone is 2.5 years old and AccuBattery reckoned it was at 71% health. There were no issues with the phone, only that the battery life wasn’t as good as it once was (it was still running from 100% - 0% battery charge).
I bought the battery from AliExpress (this one to be precise) and the process of switching it out was easy and faultless, as far as I could tell.
The reassembled phone booted up fine and the new battery was at ~ 50% capacity. On the AliExpress listing it said to run the battery flat, which is what I did and it lasted quite a few hours - all good.
I then recharged the phone to full, as stated in the instructions. Regretfully, I interrupted the first recharge a couple of times by unplugging the phone for a few minutes each time. I'm telling you this for full disclosure - I'm unsure if this is likely to have caused the problem that I am now facing.
The fully recharged phone lasted a few hours and then shut itself down, whilst on ~ 70% battery I believe. This was the first time I realised there was a problem. The phone would not turn back on - holding down the power button and/or any combination of volume buttons did absolutely nothing. However, plugging the phone in caused the battery charging screen to appear instantly and subsequently, holding the power button whilst still plugged in would turn the phone on as normal. The phone would then boot up and battery percentage would be at ~70%, as it was when it shutdown (once booted, volume keys work fine). The phone would appear to charge as normal, but whenever I unplugged the phone, it would eventually shutdown on a high percentage after anything from a few seconds up to around an hour.
I thought I must have gotten a dodgy battery, so I took it out and put the original one back in. Now the old battery has all of the same symptoms as the new one – it won’t turn on unless plugged in and randomly shuts down after a period of time. If I manually turn the phone off when unplugged, it won’t turn back on unless it is plugged in. Also, a reboot just shuts it down.
I happened to have a spare charging port board, so I put that in to see if I’d fried something on there, but that hasn’t helped.
I’m tempted to reset the phone to stock (currently running Pixel Experience with TWRP installed) but am worried that it will brick the phone if it tries to reboot during the flashing process. Also, I believe that the fact I can’t force boot into fastboot with volume down/power buttons proves it is a hardware issue?
Any ideas are very welcome.
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Exactly the problem I am going through. It's all started today. I am currently running stock MIUI. It keeps boot looping if I do not plug the charger. But once it's plugged, it will load up normal.
amn1987 said:
I think unless you have access to an EDL authorised account it's better to not flash MIUI at this stage. Risk of bricking the device...
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I did flash stock MIUI in the end. Did not brick it, but also did not fix it. The phone now turns off immediately after being unplugged every time. I got myself a black Friday Poco X3 Pro so I'm now selling this phone for parts in UK
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154819038771?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
07lema said:
I did flash stock MIUI in the end. Did not brick it, but also did not fix it. The phone now turns off immediately after being unplugged every time. I got myself a black Friday Poco X3 Pro so I'm now selling this phone for parts in UK
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154819038771?mkevt=1&mkcid=16&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0
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It could be a buggy PMIC issue similar to https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...android-11-0-vayu-bhima.4267263/post-85119331
Third-party batteries are mostly crap and probably the original battery is completely drained and the BMS isn't allowing it to be charged as a safety measure?
https://t.me/crDroidPoco/207293 Available in the EU.