Hi,
My phone suddenly went into a bootloop one day a couple of weeks back. The Samsung logo would come on for a couple of seconds and then disappear. Then I tried to plug the phone in via USB and then it gave me a weird loop where the battery icon would appear with a loading sign and then disappear.
I searched a lot of threads and some of them pointed towards a solution via a USB Jig. I ordered one and plugged it in following instructions.
On the screen, I could see the downloading sign with "Do Not Turn Off Target" under it. But this screen would also just flash for a couple of seconds and then go on a loop.
Any advice will be much appreciated! It's kind of a desperate situation because the phone is no longer under warranty.
Thank you!
I made a video because the problem is kind of hard to visualize.
i´m not sure, but it looks like a hardware problem.
A kind of instability or something.
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jigarbond said:
Hi,
My phone suddenly went into a bootloop one day a couple of weeks back. The Samsung logo would come on for a couple of seconds and then disappear. Then I tried to plug the phone in via USB and then it gave me a weird loop where the battery icon would appear with a loading sign and then disappear.
I searched a lot of threads and some of them pointed towards a solution via a USB Jig. I ordered one and plugged it in following instructions.
On the screen, I could see the downloading sign with "Do Not Turn Off Target" under it. But this screen would also just flash for a couple of seconds and then go on a loop.
Any advice will be much appreciated! It's kind of a desperate situation because the phone is no longer under warranty.
Thank you!
I made a video because the problem is kind of hard to visualize.
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dude rule of XDA 'post in the correct section', if iam right ur phone is "AT & T samsung Infuse 4g', if i am right then this is the wrong place for u, since this is meant for I9100 version
so please post the same in the Q&A sectionHERE
Okay, so here goes:
I bought this P7510 on ebay knowing it was bricked but not knowing how bad it was. When I got it, I immediately plugged it in thinking that the battery was completely drained and I charged it overnight. The next morning I tried to turn it on knowing it would probably need some attention to get going and I tried holding the power button for 10 seconds with the vol down button and release, both volumes and release, vol up and release with no results. I tried plugging it in and doing it again with the same lack of results.
I have spent several hours looking through the forums here and elsewhere and gotten a whole lot of ideas of what CAN be done, but none have worked so far. These are the steps I've taken so far...please be gentle.
I tried Kies - No reults
I read online that you can tape the battery down and try button configurations and plugging/unplugging the device, tried downloading the specific drivers, etc.
When all of that didn't work, I tried the NVflash option and I get this:
BCT file not found <code: 21> message: flags: 1073840124
I've tried ODIN (I knew ODIN wouldn't work if the PC couldn't connect to the Tab, but I tried anyways) and it didn't even show up in ODIN.
I've gotten to the point where I've pried the back open and disconnected the battery and repeated the first steps like it was a cell phone and still nothing. The only way I know that it's still alive, somewhat, is that it still flashes NVidia recovery in the device manager.
I'm fairly confident that it can be fixed, I just need some guidance to get this fixed. I'd greatly appreciate any help given,
Thank you all
ayresd54 said:
Okay, so here goes:
I bought this P7510 on ebay knowing it was bricked but not knowing how bad it was. When I got it, I immediately plugged it in thinking that the battery was completely drained and I charged it overnight. The next morning I tried to turn it on knowing it would probably need some attention to get going and I tried holding the power button for 10 seconds with the vol down button and release, both volumes and release, vol up and release with no results. I tried plugging it in and doing it again with the same lack of results.
I have spent several hours looking through the forums here and elsewhere and gotten a whole lot of ideas of what CAN be done, but none have worked so far. These are the steps I've taken so far...please be gentle.
I tried Kies - No reults
I read online that you can tape the battery down and try button configurations and plugging/unplugging the device, tried downloading the specific drivers, etc.
When all of that didn't work, I tried the NVflash option and I get this:
BCT file not found <code: 21> message: flags: 1073840124
I've tried ODIN (I knew ODIN wouldn't work if the PC couldn't connect to the Tab, but I tried anyways) and it didn't even show up in ODIN.
I've gotten to the point where I've pried the back open and disconnected the battery and repeated the first steps like it was a cell phone and still nothing. The only way I know that it's still alive, somewhat, is that it still flashes NVidia recovery in the device manager.
I'm fairly confident that it can be fixed, I just need some guidance to get this fixed. I'd greatly appreciate any help given,
Thank you all
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I am having the same issue hope some one can help us to get over it.
In same situation.
I'm in the exact same situation with a 7500 right now. Currently trying to completely drain the battery by taping the power button down. Have read this may be a possible fix. Will let you know if it works.:fingers-crossed:
I hope it works for you
BJodrey said:
I'm in the exact same situation with a 7500 right now. Currently trying to completely drain the battery by taping the power button down. Have read this may be a possible fix. Will let you know if it works.:fingers-crossed:
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It's not fun to be in that position, I hope the battery drain works for you.
Cheers,
hope it helps?
ayresd54 said:
It's not fun to be in that position, I hope the battery drain works for you.
Cheers,
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the only thing I don't see here is the method of holding down the power button for 10+ seconds and tapping the screen. That will bring it to life for me. and each time it is a pain to turn on.
Also, the only way I can boot into CWM is via the CWM Rom Manager App, holding down the volume button while booting used to work but not recently.
hope that helps
Hey Guys, ive scoured google for 2 days now trying to find a way to fix my phone.
two days ago i was doing some work and i left my phone on the table, and later i found out that the battery was low and it had shut off. But when i looked at it, it was just flashing the "samsung galaxy s2 gt-i9100" text logo. (and not the animation circle logo.)
I tried turning it off, didnt work so i thought it had frozen which happens, so i took out the battery and put it back in again.
Then i tried to plug it into my recharger, and it was showing a grey battery icon and was frozen on that screen always, the screen doesnt turn off, the battery icon isn't showing that its charging. doesnt change, just shows the same empty battery grey icon with the refresh circle-arrow in the middle.
I tried taking the battery out leaving it out for 5 minutes, draining the battery from the phone by holding the power button for 10 seconds, then trying to charge the phone. Same issue, only showing the grey battery icon when trying to charge and it never changes or goes away.
SO i tried to boot up the phone, but it wont go past the samsung text logo.
I tried entering recovery, but it just freezes on the samsung text logo.
I can enter Odin download mode, and ive tried installing several different both stock, original and CMW roms, and nothing changes. (except if i use gingerbread, then the grey battery icon just keeps flashing off and on in 5 second intervals when plugged into the charger.)
Ive tried taking the battery out for 8 hours and try booting it, no change.
Ive tried changing the battery, no change (think it has low bat as well maybe).
Ive tried leaving it plugged in overnight, but that only drained whatever power i had left over in one of the batteries.
Ive tried some of the siyah and doriman kernels, and they add a loading bar which gets full on the samsung text screen,
but then freezes after that.
Im losing my mind here, ive tried almost everything i can think of. And would really appreciate any help on this.
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Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
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Search for Hopper8's 'Odin troubleshooting' thread, download the 3 part stock firmware linked in the thread, flash it with Odin (only if you absolutely have an I9100/I9100T though).
Edit - Doesn't sound promising though, cross your fingers doing that works.
yeah i tried hoppers guide, didnt help me.
Still stuck on the samsung screen.
Whats wierd is, if ive got the phone on charging, it wont boot to the samsung screen even, it just turns itself off
and returns to the grey battery icon again.
Hang on....Did you try flashing the 3 part firmware like I mentioned ? If you haven't, do it. If you have, it's a service centre/local mobile repair shop job.
MistahBungle said:
Hang on....Did you try flashing the 3 part firmware like I mentioned ? If you haven't, do it. If you have, it's a service centre/local mobile repair shop job.
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Yeah, tried 3 part, even another packages with pit files bootloader and repartitioning from another guide.
still no change, still freezes at samsung text screen.
I dont want to take it to a service center, as there is none around here as far as i know. Norway.
If i can just get it into recovery mode i can prob fix it, but i cant fracking enter recovery. Its driving me insane.
Given what you've tried, no chance of fixing it yourself by the usual methods.
Either take it to a local mobile repair shop & ask them to source a 2nd hand motherboard for you & put it in, or you source one (from a 'donor' phone; a phone with a broken screen that is otherwise OK for example, search online) & either replace it yourself or pay the local mobile repair shop to do it if you're not confident enough.
have you ever flashed a rom on that before..... or is this a stock ROM phone we are talking about???
if it was a stock ROM phone....then did it receive updates over carrier network and started to install itself???
if yes then you should have not stopped it...... i have some problem with phone 3 days ago.... i downloaded latest XWMS1 released for nordic region....... phone is fixed and i am back to neatrom 5.3.1
i suggest you download XWMS1 ...and try flashing it via Odin..... might start......
keep fingers crossed
Roshan707 said:
have you ever flashed a rom on that before..... or is this a stock ROM phone we are talking about???
if it was a stock ROM phone....then did it receive updates over carrier network and started to install itself???
if yes then you should have not stopped it...... i have some problem with phone 3 days ago.... i downloaded latest XWMS1 released for nordic region....... phone is fixed and i am back to neatrom 5.3.1
i suggest you download XWMS1 ...and try flashing it via Odin..... might start......
keep fingers crossed
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It wasn't any update or anything, it was related to the battery i think as the batt was low.
And instead of recharging the battery, it went into bootloop and started draining the battery more when it was plugged into the charger.
ive downloaded xwms1, still stuck in bootloop.
Ive even opened it up to see if it was a hardware issue, i see no flaws, all buttons work and nothing is stuck.
the phone just keeps going to the samsung logo, and wont go into recovery mode.
It can easily go into download mode, but recovery mode is just not happening.
at this point i just ordered the Xperia Z1 instead, but i still want to fix this phone and give it to my dad or something.
desidarko said:
Hey Guys, ive scoured google for 2 days now trying to find a way to fix my phone.
two days ago i was doing some work and i left my phone on the table, and later i found out that the battery was low and it had shut off. But when i looked at it, it was just flashing the "samsung galaxy s2 gt-i9100" text logo. (and not the animation circle logo.)
I tried turning it off, didnt work so i thought it had frozen which happens, so i took out the battery and put it back in again.
Then i tried to plug it into my recharger, and it was showing a grey battery icon and was frozen on that screen always, the screen doesnt turn off, the battery icon isn't showing that its charging. doesnt change, just shows the same empty battery grey icon with the refresh circle-arrow in the middle.
I tried taking the battery out leaving it out for 5 minutes, draining the battery from the phone by holding the power button for 10 seconds, then trying to charge the phone. Same issue, only showing the grey battery icon when trying to charge and it never changes or goes away.
SO i tried to boot up the phone, but it wont go past the samsung text logo.
I tried entering recovery, but it just freezes on the samsung text logo.
I can enter Odin download mode, and ive tried installing several different both stock, original and CMW roms, and nothing changes. (except if i use gingerbread, then the grey battery icon just keeps flashing off and on in 5 second intervals when plugged into the charger.)
Ive tried taking the battery out for 8 hours and try booting it, no change.
Ive tried changing the battery, no change (think it has low bat as well maybe).
Ive tried leaving it plugged in overnight, but that only drained whatever power i had left over in one of the batteries.
Ive tried some of the siyah and doriman kernels, and they add a loading bar which gets full on the samsung text screen,
but then freezes after that.
Im losing my mind here, ive tried almost everything i can think of. And would really appreciate any help on this.
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errrrm - just a thought (and it's a real long shot) I had some strange battery drain (bootloop) issues with a brand new i9100 and it turned out that the micro sd card I was using was corrupt, took it out and it worked. Might be worth a try but like I said its a long shot. If that does not work I agree with mistahbungle and looks like you wil need to replace the mb.
Jimsilver73 said:
errrrm - just a thought (and it's a real long shot) I had some strange battery drain (bootloop) issues with a brand new i9100 and it turned out that the micro sd card I was using was corrupt, took it out and it worked. Might be worth a try but like I said its a long shot. If that does not work I agree with mistahbungle and looks like you wil need to replace the mb.
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Yeah ive already taken out the micro sd card and sim card, didnt change anything.
Just so weird the phone is less than 2 years old. Sucks that its already llike this.
desidarko said:
Yeah ive already taken out the micro sd card and sim card, didnt change anything.
Just so weird the phone is less than 2 years old. Sucks that its already llike this.
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I've went through this on my Hercules, T-Mobile S2. I had Android tweaker pro, removed all of the tweaks, and rebooted. It took me quite a while but I was able to get into recovery by the normal button mashing.
DO NOT HAVE THE PHONE PLUGGED INTO THE CHARGER.
PRESS THE VOLUME BUTTONS THEN THE POWER BUTTON WHILE STILL HOLDING THE VOLUME BUTTONS.
AS SOON AS YOU FEEL THE FIRST VIBRATION, LET GO OF ONLY THE POWER BUTTON!
CONTINUE TO HOLD THE VOLUME BUTTONS UNTIL YOUR RECOVERY LOADS.
THAT IS WHAT HAS WORKED FOR ME.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
Please Help !!
i kinda cloned my ROM , it happened by mistake while trying to flash my kernel , now that my phone is stuck in samsung start up logo , . tried to reboot still the same result. . . :crying:
No recovery ? If that's the case, stock rom from Samfirmware, flash with Odin to get a 'clean slate' (How ? Thread stickied near top of Q&A has instructions) & re-try whatever it was you wanted to do. If you do have recovery, try a factory reset in the first instance, if that doesn't work or if you have recovery but can't do one for whatever reason, proceed with the stock flash via Odin.
Thanks
thanks a lot mate , my fone back in action. successfully flashed, now running on JB 4.3.1 on Paranoidandroid 3.99-RC2 , so far so good .:victory:
being a newbei in this field hoping for all the support
EDIT : any suggestion how to remove warning symbol (yellow triangle) while booting .
Possibly triangle away.Search to get the free version.
desidarko said:
Ok so to keep this post updated for people experiencing the same issues.
IT seems there is a hardware failure in progress.
BUT i managed to get a temporary fix, it seems that by having the ear plugs connected into the earphone jack in the phone, the phone becomes somewhat usable. I was able to get into recovery, and able to flash a new stock, and its up and running, but as i said this is only a temporary solution as the real issue is that the phone is not conducting the electricity in a proper way that allowed me to recharge my batteries until i had added the earphones...
The phone becomes unusable for me when i remove the earphones again, as i believe its failing to conduct the electricity from the battery properly through the motherboard without something connected into the earphone jack..
SO for people having issues with their phones, it might be a possible way to get your phone temporarily operational again.
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Okay so I have managed to get it to this point after day's of grief, now please tell me I don't have to walk around with the earplugs in for ever !
RustyNail99 said:
Okay so I have managed to get it to this point after day's of grief, now please tell me I don't have to walk around with the earplugs in for ever !
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A friend of mine had am Android phone that had a similar problem. It always showed the headphones on the status bar and Could not be heard. If you will take your phone apart then you can look for bridges in the solder points. These happen from poor construction and over heating. Fix the bridges and you should be good to go.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
fathertomany said:
A friend of mine had am Android phone that had a similar problem. It always showed the headphones on the status bar and Could not be heard. If you will take your phone apart then you can look for bridges in the solder points. These happen from poor construction and over heating. Fix the bridges and you should be good to go.
Sent from my Skinny Hercules
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I did take it apart and had a quick look, all seems ok. However I was not ready to junk the phone so I improvised a little, its not pretty but it works.
I had an old headphone jack which I cut down so as it would just fit into the jack point, installed Soundabout Pro app which forces the calls to come out the earpiece and not headphones voila it works. In the end it cost me a lot of time surfing countless forums, anger management control and some joy at getting it to work. Still without the help people give on this and other forums it would be a useless phone :fingers-crossed:
sweetben747 said:
thanks a lot mate , my fone back in action. successfully flashed, now running on JB 4.3.1 on Paranoidandroid 3.99-RC2 , so far so good .:victory:
being a newbei in this field hoping for all the support
EDIT : any suggestion how to remove warning symbol (yellow triangle) while booting .
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i was also searching for the same...... since triangle did not hurt but i wanted to know if i could get rid of it......
thanks to our wonderful Dev name Phliz i could do it... i had to reflash to stock for it ofcourse but then whole effort was worthwhile .....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1877270
this is the link.... please go through... and best of luck to remove the triangle.....
There's no need for n extensive backstory because rooting, flashing, etc I am pretty familiar with, having first rooted the old HTC Thunderbolt.
Now here's what happened:
I have quite a few roms for the S4 but the BoneStock 1.1.4 rom by Andybones always kept bringing me back. I pretty much settled for that one as my dail driver and kept it so for at least 2 months.
Recently in the past week i started getting notifications on my internal sys memory almost out. So i check and realize that my Google Play Music is almost at 6 gb, so I decide to wipe my entire phone just to give it a fresh new flash. Flash goes well, fresh install. I hardly have the time to let my phone die, so I usually just charge it regardless (I have a 5200 mAh extended battery) but this time I decided to let it die. Once it did, i put it to charge immediately and thats when i noticed something was wrong. It was stuck at the battery logo, the animated one that charges while your phone isn't on yet? Well the circle that spins and sort of 'detects' how much battery is left is stuck there. Even if i disconnect my charger it stays there.
So i did what's natural and battery pulled. Did that, reconnected my phone, still the same thing. Now i tried multiple times to get it to turn on and what not but it won't. It gets stuck at the samsung boot logo, no idea why.
So i've decided to call it a night (3 am here, work in the afternoon) and hopefully this thread gets seen by someone who knows how to deal wth this.
TL;DR Clean re-flash of the same daily driver (BoneStock 1.1.4) and let my phone die because I realize I never let it die. Once it does, it get stuck at both the Samsung boot logo, or the animated battery charge circle. I tried accessing recovery, and while I see the little blue message top left hand corner, it just seems to shut itself off, and boot back up only to be stuck again. I have no idea what happeend, I never mess with system functions or any thing of that sort.
The only real solution I see if restoring to stock firmware through Odin? Hopefully that will work, but anyone else experience this before? or something similar and can shed some light on this weird situation?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I apologize for the bad grammar, I've been trying to figure this out for the past 2 hours, and it's very late right now.
FriendlyNeighborhoodEnt said:
There's no need for n extensive backstory because rooting, flashing, etc I am pretty familiar with, having first rooted the old HTC Thunderbolt.
Now here's what happened:
I have quite a few roms for the S4 but the BoneStock 1.1.4 rom by Andybones always kept bringing me back. I pretty much settled for that one as my dail driver and kept it so for at least 2 months.
Recently in the past week i started getting notifications on my internal sys memory almost out. So i check and realize that my Google Play Music is almost at 6 gb, so I decide to wipe my entire phone just to give it a fresh new flash. Flash goes well, fresh install. I hardly have the time to let my phone die, so I usually just charge it regardless (I have a 5200 mAh extended battery) but this time I decided to let it die. Once it did, i put it to charge immediately and thats when i noticed something was wrong. It was stuck at the battery logo, the animated one that charges while your phone isn't on yet? Well the circle that spins and sort of 'detects' how much battery is left is stuck there. Even if i disconnect my charger it stays there.
So i did what's natural and battery pulled. Did that, reconnected my phone, still the same thing. Now i tried multiple times to get it to turn on and what not but it won't. It gets stuck at the samsung boot logo, no idea why.
So i've decided to call it a night (3 am here, work in the afternoon) and hopefully this thread gets seen by someone who knows how to deal wth this.
TL;DR Clean re-flash of the same daily driver (BoneStock 1.1.4) and let my phone die because I realize I never let it die. Once it does, it get stuck at both the Samsung boot logo, or the animated battery charge circle. I tried accessing recovery, and while I see the little blue message top left hand corner, it just seems to shut itself off, and boot back up only to be stuck again. I have no idea what happeend, I never mess with system functions or any thing of that sort.
The only real solution I see if restoring to stock firmware through Odin? Hopefully that will work, but anyone else experience this before? or something similar and can shed some light on this weird situation?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I apologize for the bad grammar, I've been trying to figure this out for the past 2 hours, and it's very late right now.
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I would tend to agree odin the full wipe stock image back and start over
FriendlyNeighborhoodEnt said:
There's no need for n extensive backstory because rooting, flashing, etc I am pretty familiar with, having first rooted the old HTC Thunderbolt.
Now here's what happened:
I have quite a few roms for the S4 but the BoneStock 1.1.4 rom by Andybones always kept bringing me back. I pretty much settled for that one as my dail driver and kept it so for at least 2 months.
Recently in the past week i started getting notifications on my internal sys memory almost out. So i check and realize that my Google Play Music is almost at 6 gb, so I decide to wipe my entire phone just to give it a fresh new flash. Flash goes well, fresh install. I hardly have the time to let my phone die, so I usually just charge it regardless (I have a 5200 mAh extended battery) but this time I decided to let it die. Once it did, i put it to charge immediately and thats when i noticed something was wrong. It was stuck at the battery logo, the animated one that charges while your phone isn't on yet? Well the circle that spins and sort of 'detects' how much battery is left is stuck there. Even if i disconnect my charger it stays there.
So i did what's natural and battery pulled. Did that, reconnected my phone, still the same thing. Now i tried multiple times to get it to turn on and what not but it won't. It gets stuck at the samsung boot logo, no idea why.
So i've decided to call it a night (3 am here, work in the afternoon) and hopefully this thread gets seen by someone who knows how to deal wth this.
TL;DR Clean re-flash of the same daily driver (BoneStock 1.1.4) and let my phone die because I realize I never let it die. Once it does, it get stuck at both the Samsung boot logo, or the animated battery charge circle. I tried accessing recovery, and while I see the little blue message top left hand corner, it just seems to shut itself off, and boot back up only to be stuck again. I have no idea what happeend, I never mess with system functions or any thing of that sort.
The only real solution I see if restoring to stock firmware through Odin? Hopefully that will work, but anyone else experience this before? or something similar and can shed some light on this weird situation?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I apologize for the bad grammar, I've been trying to figure this out for the past 2 hours, and it's very late right now.
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When you see the blue text for recovery do you continue to hold the buttons down until you see the recovery screen? If you take your fingers off it will do what your describing. If you can get into recovery reflash your ROM.
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Hi, charging my Samsung Galaxy S2 in the car one day when I notice it had frozen on the lock screen. Tried turning it off but it just kept showing a frozen lock screen so I took the battery out, waited 5 minutes until I put it back in and tried to turn the device on.
Device wouldn't turn back on or display anything on the screen. I took the battery back out and left it for half an hour before putting the battery back into the device and leaving it on charge for an hour. Still no sign of any life in the device but it was heating up while on charge.
After searching hard for solutions I can't seem to understand what happened the phone..
Anyone have any ideas what happened the phone, how I could fix it or even if I could just get the photos from the internal phone storage? Would greatly appreciate any help!
Thanks, Dylan.
P.S. phone wasn't 'rooted' nor was there ever custom ROMs installed on it.
P.S.S. During my search for solutions I cam across people talking about changing/fixing the 'IC circuit' or something, anybody know anything about this?
ginno95 said:
Hi, charging my Samsung Galaxy S2 in the car one day when I notice it had frozen on the lock screen. Tried turning it off but it just kept showing a frozen lock screen so I took the battery out, waited 5 minutes until I put it back in and tried to turn the device on.
Device wouldn't turn back on or display anything on the screen. I took the battery back out and left it for half an hour before putting the battery back into the device and leaving it on charge for an hour. Still no sign of any life in the device but it was heating up while on charge.
After searching hard for solutions I can't seem to understand what happened the phone..
Anyone have any ideas what happened the phone, how I could fix it or even if I could just get the photos from the internal phone storage? Would greatly appreciate any help!
Thanks, Dylan.
P.S. phone wasn't 'rooted' nor was there ever custom ROMs installed on it.
P.S.S. During my search for solutions I cam across people talking about changing/fixing the 'IC circuit' or something, anybody know anything about this?
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This kind of failure is completely unpredictable and not related to any kind of rooting/unlocking/software tinkering.
The general rule of thumb is that if the phone freezed and refuses to boot up after one pulls the battery, and heats up while charging, it's likely that it's fried.
Given this, you could try to find the problem, but this would involve desoldering SMD components (like the charging circuitry, which could well be the culprit in this case), and other delicate stuff you don't really wanna mess around with.
I'd suggest trying to see if the battery is the problem, maybe using a friend''s one for a test, or if it fails, to leave the battery out of the phone for a night and see if it boots. If everything else fails, you have to go for a motherboard replacement.