Hello all, my first post here so my apologies if this has been discussed or it's in the wrong spot.
I have a stock 10.1 Tablet (Verizon 4G). Last week I left it on and drained the battery. Realizing this I left it on the charger overnight (appx 10 hours) upon turning it on after the 10 hours it hung at the "Samsung Galaxy Tab" splash screen. So I then tried the power/volume up trick to try to boot it. All it will do is boot to a blank screen with an upacking icon or a blinking Android that says "downloading" nothing happens after that. At this point I'm not concerned about the data, its all backed up. I just want to get this up and running again so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreicated.
Also, here's a screenshot of what the Tab is doing.
edit, can't post the screen. Too few posts.
Cadet57 said:
Hello all, my first post here so my apologies if this has been discussed or it's in the wrong spot.
I have a stock 10.1 Tablet (Verizon 4G). Last week I left it on and drained the battery. Realizing this I left it on the charger overnight (appx 10 hours) upon turning it on after the 10 hours it hung at the "Samsung Galaxy Tab" splash screen. So I then tried the power/volume up trick to try to boot it. All it will do is boot to a blank screen with an upacking icon or a blinking Android that says "downloading" nothing happens after that. At this point I'm not concerned about the data, its all backed up. I just want to get this up and running again so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreicated.
Also, here's a screenshot of what the Tab is doing.
edit, can't post the screen. Too few posts.
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This same thing happened to my note and it turned out to be the battery had died
replaced the battery and its been ok for about 5 months now
Cadet57 said:
Hello all, my first post here so my apologies if this has been discussed or it's in the wrong spot.
I have a stock 10.1 Tablet (Verizon 4G). Last week I left it on and drained the battery. Realizing this I left it on the charger overnight (appx 10 hours) upon turning it on after the 10 hours it hung at the "Samsung Galaxy Tab" splash screen. So I then tried the power/volume up trick to try to boot it. All it will do is boot to a blank screen with an upacking icon or a blinking Android that says "downloading" nothing happens after that. At this point I'm not concerned about the data, its all backed up. I just want to get this up and running again so if anyone can help that would be greatly appreicated.
Also, here's a screenshot of what the Tab is doing.
edit, can't post the screen. Too few posts.
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Sounds to me like you booted into download/odin mode. Use the volume down button to pick the icon on the left. Use the volume up button to select the left icon. That will take you to stock recovery... use the power button to pick reboot. If it doesn't boot. Go back to recovery and wipe cache and reboot. If still nothing you will probably need to try Odin and a new rom.
Let me now... good luck
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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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more data;
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!
Hey guys
So I had bought a used galaxy s4 on swappa, got it, it started fine, I took it to the verizon store and got it set up with a 4G sim card, everything seemed good. Let it charge for a bit and then shut it off and stuck it in a box (the phone is a replacement for a family member who is away right now so it was just gonna hang out for a bit).
Just last night I took it out of the box to try and turn it on and get some info on it and it won't boot. When I start it up is says "Samsung Unlocked" and shows that unlocked Icon, that goes away and nothing else happens.
The weird thing is it didn't have the unlocked thing before when I first got it and was starting it up, it had the normal "Samsung Galaxy S4" boot screen with no lock icon, and I haven't done anything to this phone in terms of rooting or romming it. I did boot into the included recovery once, but I didn't mess with anything.
When I try to boot into recovery now (hold down power+home+vol up) I'll hold it down for upwards of 30 seconds, and I don't get anything. It doesn't vibrate indicating it has started up, and I can't get it to do the normal boot and black screen again until I pull the battery.
Any suggestions on what to do with it at this point?
apefist said:
Hey guys
So I had bought a used galaxy s4 on swappa, got it, it started fine, I took it to the verizon store and got it set up with a 4G sim card, everything seemed good. Let it charge for a bit and then shut it off and stuck it in a box (the phone is a replacement for a family member who is away right now so it was just gonna hang out for a bit).
Just last night I took it out of the box to try and turn it on and get some info on it and it won't boot. When I start it up is says "Samsung Unlocked" and shows that unlocked Icon, that goes away and nothing else happens.
The weird thing is it didn't have the unlocked thing before when I first got it and was starting it up, it had the normal "Samsung Galaxy S4" boot screen with no lock icon, and I haven't done anything to this phone in terms of rooting or romming it. I did boot into the included recovery once, but I didn't mess with anything.
When I try to boot into recovery now (hold down power+home+vol up) I'll hold it down for upwards of 30 seconds, and I don't get anything. It doesn't vibrate indicating it has started up, and I can't get it to do the normal boot and black screen again until I pull the battery.
Any suggestions on what to do with it at this point?
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Make sure the battery is charged. Try plugging it in.
joshuabg said:
Make sure the battery is charged. Try plugging it in.
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OK I'm gonna look like an idiot here, but this was the issue. After leaving it plugged in for ~30 minutes it turned on fine.
I had charged it to 100% and was sure I had turned it off before boxing it for a few days but I must have screwed something up!
Thanks for the response!
apefist said:
OK I'm gonna look like an idiot here, but this was the issue. After leaving it plugged in for ~30 minutes it turned on fine.
I had charged it to 100% and was sure I had turned it off before boxing it for a few days but I must have screwed something up!
Thanks for the response!
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It might not be your fault. You might have a defective or worn battery.
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Hello,
I have a problem with my tablet, I have looked and tried for several days and have not been able to get any real results.
To start with, my tab originally was running really slow. I thought I may have a virus, so I did a factory data reset. Once it tried rebooting, a warning come up that there was a missing file, I didn't have time to write it down. Anyway, it started to reboot, the boot screen comes up "Samsung GALAXY Tab 10.1" but that's as far as it gets. That's all it would do till it drains the battery down, can't even turn it off. I pressed the power and volume key to get into the selection screen to boot or download. I have tried several times to reload the recovery.tar.md5 through Odin3, it says everything works fine, doing this finally allows the battery to show up on the screen while it's charging. Now when I boot it it gets past the former screen and does the video sequence that ends with the SAMSUNG in the center of the screen and hangs there. It finally restarts and hangs on the first screen again. I have looked and looked, and can't seem to find what I need. I really need some guidance, please understand I need some help!
Thanks!
Well, after several more attempts I got it to completely boot up! left it on for a few minutes, got it all setup and onto the home screen. This was late last night, so I decided to shut it down (power off) and plug it in. Got up this morning and it is doing it again! Anyone have any thoughts? Could this be a problem with the processor or any other hardware parts?
Not really sure what's going on with your tab, but you can try to flash the full stock ROM from Odin. You can get it from www.sammobile.com.
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I appreciate the suggestion, I already went to Samsung and got everything I could from there - updated drivers, But I did not see the ROM. I will take a look tonight when I get back home. Thanks for taking your time to reply!
I went to Samsung people in Best Buy, he pointed me to the Samsung Kies. He seemed to think it was hardware also. How would I tell if it is either? I am leaning towards hardware, because it did let me get in and set-up my accounts etc... then I powered off & the problem has reared it's ugly head when I tried to power it back on.
Been running the GPE ROM flawlessly since I flashed on the 12th... Until today. Don't know if this is ROM related but maybe you guys can help.
Out of nowhere, my phone kept shutting off. Couldn't use it for more than a minute after booting before it would turn off completely. Battery was charged so I was kind of like 'wtf'. Then all of a sudden it wouldn't even get to the swirling colors boot screen. It would shut off halfway though the Samsung Custom logo. ****.
Tried plugging it in and pulling the battery multiple times. I can't even boot to recovery! The blue text shows in the upper left but then it will go off again. It's plugged in now but not showing the battery charging screen.
I can only get it to turn on for about a second. Am I ****ed? Is this thing bricked? Super random because I changed NOTHING this morning and it was fine yesterday.
crovax33 said:
Been running the GPE ROM flawlessly since I flashed on the 12th... Until today. Don't know if this is ROM related but maybe you guys can help.
Out of nowhere, my phone kept shutting off. Couldn't use it for more than a minute after booting before it would turn off completely. Battery was charged so I was kind of like 'wtf'. Then all of a sudden it wouldn't even get to the swirling colors boot screen. It would shut off halfway though the Samsung Custom logo. ****.
Tried plugging it in and pulling the battery multiple times. I can't even boot to recovery! The blue text shows in the upper left but then it will go off again. It's plugged in now but not showing the battery charging screen.
I can only get it to turn on for about a second. Am I ****ed? Is this thing bricked? Super random because I changed NOTHING this morning and it was fine yesterday.
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It could be a power button failure, it's actually quite common on the S4.
Google "Galaxy s4 power button problems"
Check out this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931310
Hello
I was playing a game on Tab S7, Royal Match, and suddenly, the screen started flickering. So I restarted the Tab. The screen showed the samsung logo, and then nothing, blank screen. I pressed the power button, and it showed power off or reboot. I did a reboot, but again the same thing. So I searched on internet, and it told me to go to safe mode, and then recovery screen. But by this time, the tab is completely unresponsive. It does not start at all.
Please help, urgently, since my class starts on monday, and I need this to take down notes. I have lots of notes on it already.
thanks
Battery sufficient?
Jonathanpeyton said:
Battery sufficient?
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yes. the last time i saw, it was 54%
any ideas, please?
The battery can suddenly discharge. Place the tablet on charge for 30 mins and then try starting it.