Hey all,
I have a Droid DNA that has not been rooted or have anything but stock ROM running on it. Today, I was using Snapchat when suddenly I get the box that pops up when you hold down the power button and then you choose whether to turn it off, restart it, or put it into airplane mode. Then, there's a notification that in 3, 2, 1, your device will be shut off.
After it shuts off, it goes into the infinite bootloop where it doesn't go past the HTC screen and I can't even do anything in the bootloader because it just restarts mid-pressing of the volume buttons.
I think the power button might be stuck, but it feels mechanically fine. I think it's stuck though because without even pressing the power button I could just hold VOLUME DOWN and still get into the bootloader for like 4 seconds.
Is there anything I could do?
Thank you so much in advance.
super3go said:
Hey all,
I have a Droid DNA that has not been rooted or have anything but stock ROM running on it. Today, I was using Snapchat when suddenly I get the box that pops up when you hold down the power button and then you choose whether to turn it off, restart it, or put it into airplane mode. Then, there's a notification that in 3, 2, 1, your device will be shut off.
After it shuts off, it goes into the infinite bootloop where it doesn't go past the HTC screen and I can't even do anything in the bootloader because it just restarts mid-pressing of the volume buttons.
I think the power button might be stuck, but it feels mechanically fine. I think it's stuck though because without even pressing the power button I could just hold VOLUME DOWN and still get into the bootloader for like 4 seconds.
Is there anything I could do?
Thank you so much in advance.
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Take it back to verizon if its not rooted or anything, show them whats going on, they will probably tell you to send it in to be fixed.
.torrented said:
Take it back to verizon if its not rooted or anything, show them whats going on, they will probably tell you to send it in to be fixed.
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I think I'm going to have to. I let it run its course until the battery died and was hoping to resurrect it by charging. However, now its not even charging. There's no orange LED (blinking or constant) to let me know the phone is charging. Damn.
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I'm very much new to this, so please take it easy on the terminology, and insults.. :/ Just to be clear ive never rooted this phone or flashed it or anything like that.
I was using my phone and the battery ran really low and it died. I went to turn it on, and it wouldn't turn on, so i charged the battery for a good hour. I press the power button and it vibrates, but the screen stays black.
after that i tried doing a hard reset, so with the phone in that black screen, i took the battery out so it would turn off. Put it back in, followed the instructions for hard reset from the VZW website (without turning the phone on, because i'm still unable to do so), and nothing happened at all. I gave it a couple tries and still nothing.
Then i took the battery out, put it back in, pressed the power button. I felt it vibrate again like last time. So in this post-vibrate state, without removing the battery, while the screen is still black with no power on, i did the hard reset. It vibrated and then now the 4 touch buttons at the screen illuminated, and the backlight turned on, but the screen itself was still black.
can anyone help me out??
hergo011 said:
I'm very much new to this, so please take it easy on the terminology, and insults.. :/ Just to be clear ive never rooted this phone or flashed it or anything like that.
I was using my phone and the battery ran really low and it died. I went to turn it on, and it wouldn't turn on, so i charged the battery for a good hour. I press the power button and it vibrates, but the screen stays black.
after that i tried doing a hard reset, so with the phone in that black screen, i took the battery out so it would turn off. Put it back in, followed the instructions for hard reset from the VZW website (without turning the phone on, because i'm still unable to do so), and nothing happened at all. I gave it a couple tries and still nothing.
Then i took the battery out, put it back in, pressed the power button. I felt it vibrate again like last time. So in this post-vibrate state, without removing the battery, while the screen is still black with no power on, i did the hard reset. It vibrated and then now the 4 touch buttons at the screen illuminated, and the backlight turned on, but the screen itself was still black.
can anyone help me out??
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When the phone is completely off. Battery pull. When holding down (Vol Down + Power). Does the HBOOT (white screen) appear or is it still black?
Flyhalf205 said:
When the phone is completely off. Battery pull. When holding down (Vol Down + Power). Does the HBOOT (white screen) appear or is it still black?
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No i tried it and it didnt :/
hergo011 said:
No i tried it and it didnt :/
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Do you get anything when you plug it into a computer? Any new devices that the computer sees? If not. Need to bring it to the Verizon store bud :/
Flyhalf205 said:
Do you get anything when you plug it into a computer? Any new devices that the computer sees? If not. Need to bring it to the Verizon store bud :/
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awwww, well thanks for trying anyways.. :/
I would say go to tje Verizon store and have them charge your battery. If it takes a charge and powers on then it prolly your port.
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Need some serious assistance. Was playing with my dogs just a bit ago and decided to record it. So I go to the camera and switch to camcorder and the screen just turns green and the flash comes on and basically it's stuck. Ok so I go to settings and force stop the camera. Try to start it up and it just says unable to start camera. Ok so I guess I'll just restart the phone. Go to restart get to the white htc screen and the flash is still on. hangs there for quite awhile so I start hitting buttons. Screen goes black so I hold the power button again. Capacitative lights just flash. So now the phone won't power on no matter what I do the capacitive lights just flash at me. Any suggestions?
try holding power for like twenty seconds to reboot it.. it's like pulling the battery out. The capacitive light flash apparently means it's signaling to you that it's about to do a full reset.
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jayochs said:
try holding power for like twenty seconds to reboot it.. it's like pulling the battery out. The capacitive light flash apparently means it's signaling to you that it's about to do a full reset.
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Will give it a shot. My first phone with non removable battery.
Seems to have worked thanks a ton. Kinda worries me that the camcorder freaked it out like that though.
broons said:
Need some serious assistance. Was playing with my dogs just a bit ago and decided to record it. So I go to the camera and switch to camcorder and the screen just turns green and the flash comes on and basically it's stuck. Ok so I go to settings and force stop the camera. Try to start it up and it just says unable to start camera. Ok so I guess I'll just restart the phone. Go to restart get to the white htc screen and the flash is still on. hangs there for quite awhile so I start hitting buttons. Screen goes black so I hold the power button again. Capacitative lights just flash. So now the phone won't power on no matter what I do the capacitive lights just flash at me. Any suggestions?
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Sorry to hear this, try this. Plug in the charger, hold the power button. Release power button, hold it down again all with the charger in. I had some sort of soft brick messing with custom roms. It would not power on till i tried with the charger plug connected. I was spooked and thought it bricked.
Let me know how you get on. If that fails, RMA time
Hendrickson said:
Sorry to hear this, try this. Plug in the charger, hold the power button. Release power button, hold it down again all with the charger in. I had some sort of soft brick messing with custom roms. It would not power on till i tried with the charger plug connected. I was spooked and thought it bricked.
Let me know how you get on. If that fails, RMA time
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jayochs advice fixed it. Kinda freaked me out. May return it anyway as this isn't the first time the camera has caused some goofiness with the phone. Not rooted still 100% stock.
This is the fix. Or should I say "Completely Stupid Time Consuming Trick" that somehow fixes the problem(at least for me) because now my phone powers off and on normally. Here the Steps I've done. I tested this out 4 times and it worked all four times but it was only tested on my device. So this is not guaranteed to work and its time consuming.
Step 1: Plug in charger and let it sit there at the black screen for 7-10min
Step 2: Plug out charger and hold down power button until phone fully powers off
Step 3: Hold Volume up and down at the same time and plug in charger. It should be in download mode. Let it sit there for 7-10min.
Step 4: Repeat Step #2
Step 5: Plug in charger and wait about 20-30secs. :fingers-crossed: If all went well it should go to the battery charging icon or menu or whatever you want to call it. If it does, let it charge for about 5min and fully power it on.
Congrats your phone is now on and past the black screen. :good:
This will temporarily fix the black screen problem. Well... not fix but at least get past it and have your phone on. I suggest you never fully power off your phone and use power off and restart in power option instead of power off. To fully fix it do the following Steps:
Step 6: Power off phone by holding power button until power menu pops up, and by selecting power off. When phone is fully powered off, plug in charger and wait about 20-30secs and see if it goes to the battery charging icon or menu or whatever you want to call it. If it does then proceed to Step 7.
If it does not and just sits there at the black screen, you will have to complete Steps 1-5 to get you phone back on again and retry Step 6.:crying:
Step 7: Let it charge for about 5min and fully power it back on.
Step 8: Power off phone by holding power button until power menu pops up, and by selecting power off. Now power on phone again and see if it powers on WITHOUT THE CHARGER. If so proceed to Step 9.
Again,:crying: If it does not power on and just sits there at the black screen, you will have to complete Steps 1-5 to get you phone back on again and repeat Steps 6-8 again.
Step 9: Power off phone by holding power button until power menu pops up, and by selecting power off.
Step 10: Hold power button until phone flashes lg logo, then goes completely black(not the dim lighted black screen, COMPLETELY BLACK). As soon as it goes completely black, let go of the power button and wait for your phone to power on.
If you phone powers on it should be fully fixed and should power on and off normally(well at least for me). But AGAIN *sighs* If it does not power on and just sits there at the black screen, you will have to complete Steps 1-5 to get you phone back on and repeat Steps 6-10 AGAIN.
I recommend you just do Steps 1-5 to get your phone on and past the black screen. And to use power saving technique's to save battery when not in use of phone or when not near a charger. I may make an YouTube video on how this "Completely Stupid Time Consuming Trick" is done. But anyways this is what I did to fix the black screen issue. Let me know if Steps 1-5 at least gets your phone past the black screen and on. Steps 6-10 is pointless but worked for me but time consuming.
Problem fixed
disregard this post. read above post
SevenGPLuke said:
Moderator/Admin, please close this thread. i solved the problem on the irc channel. thanks.
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What was your fix?
Jank4AU said:
What was your fix?
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I'm having a similar problem. But all I have done is rooted with RootOptimusG.bat and then used the freegee app from the play store to unlock. I then power off my phone and when i turn it back on all i get is the lg symbol and then a blank screen?
Re: Black Screen after LG logo
What was your fix, others may need it.
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SevenGPLuke said:
Hello,
I'm currently on Nocturnal Limited Edition rom. But this has been happening to all the roms Ive flashed to this phone. When i fully power off my phone or the battery fully dies, and i try to power it back on, the lg logo flashes then it just sits there on a black screen not turning on. I have to do this stupid little trick to get it back on(plus in the charger and let it sit at the black screen for 7min, hold power button and plug out charger until phone powers off, hold volume up and down then plug in charger and let it sit for 6min, hold power button and plug out charger until phone powers off, then plug back in charger and BAM mysteriously the phone powers on). Its frustrating doing this trick everytime i mistakenly power off or when the battery fully dies. Basically i have to keep my phone on all day with all these power save techniques i do. the only way i can actually restart my phone is by selecting power off and restart, rather than power off. My point is how do i fix this? how do i get it to boot up? i cant even get into bootloader because it wont power up. thanks in advance. :victory::victory:
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Please post fix! I am having this exact same issue!
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still cant get mine to restart. it sucks
I can get into download mode, after that it wont come back to life.
Any other help anybody can give me?
Thanks
I once upon a time have this kind of problem, solution below
What i did was remove the back panel, unscrew battery screws unplug battery & keep it unplugged for 1-2hrs or 5-6hrs. Then plug back battery with screws & back panel.
Its back to life !!!!!
I would suggest to take this to at&t replace & if outside usa this is the only possible solution for now.
Let me know if it works for anyone.
I tried the battery pull and it didnt work. Thanks for the idea.
Anybody have a fix for this or what causes this rediculous crap. Brand new phone and I went to shut off and reboot...now this
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lsun06 said:
Anybody have a fix for this or what causes this rediculous crap. Brand new phone and I went to shut off and reboot...now this
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Flashing a certain amount and lgnpsting corrupts the misc file
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I.haven't flashed anything other than root and freegee. Lol
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tiltman71 said:
I tried the battery pull and it didnt work. Thanks for the idea.
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Did u keep it unplugged for "unplug battery & keep it unplugged for 1-2hrs or 5-6hrs" ?
This surely fixed, black screen.... any body else.
I used the lgnpst software and got mine to come back to live. Its charging now, it was dead. We will see tomorrow how it goes.
I'm working on that now. Downloaded files. Someone said we may need a special freegee app. Some phones don't take the reg app. Go figure
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Well the first time I tried it it failed and got stuck in download mode, after many more tyies and a different computer it finally worked.
After it rebooted it said the battery was dead, so I had to have it on the charger for a while before it would start.
I hope itworks for you on the first try.
I was stuck on this screen after I flashed 2 back to back roms....I tried recovery mode download mode connected to usb to no avail.So I found this post.I let it charge on the black screen for 10 min unplugged it powered it down with volume down and power button and i held down volume up and power and it booted up with the animation for the 2nd Rom I used.Long Story Short battery was dead smh
I can't get mine into recovery, it won't work.
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Randomly today my phone on Blackstar X was rebooting a ton. Then, suddenly, it wouldn't turn on. Well, it turns on, then it shows a screwed up version of the Blackstar X logo (screwed up as in its all pixelated), and then it turns off. As soon as I connect the battery, this happens. I don't even turn it on when the battery is connected, it just happens. It's as if it's in a state of perpetual random-rebooting, but the phone memory/ROM died.
I can get into download mode, but like 2-3 seconds in, it turns off. This keeps happening. When I try to hold both volume to get into TWRP, the phone just keeps vibrating (only black screen, meanwhile). Any one got any suggestions? I just want this f**ing thing to work!
Sounds like your power button is stuck.
rangercaptain said:
Sounds like your power button is stuck.
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Oh my god, you just saved me! Thank you so much!
Well done ranger .....another "thanks" headed your way....g
I just remembered the many times you gave the power button diagnosis. . .
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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