I was using Slim 4.4.4 for a little while on my Vibrant, no major issues, but wanted to flash it back to stock for one of my family members that prefers not to have to deal with any potential "quirks." So I grabbed the UVJFD rom and flashed via heimdall. No errors. Unplugged the USB and restarted the phone and it looked fine, but the battery was 14% so I plugged it in to charge. The phone shut off after a few seconds, then displayed the battery charging image that normally shows up - the empty battery with the circle on it that shows up while it is trying to determine how much charge there is. That image just keeps flashing on and off, it never shows the actual battery level. If I try to restart the phone, it boots but shuts off immediately after it gets to the home screen, then back to the battery screen. Same issue if I plug in directly to a wall outlet.
The issue only came up after I flashed back to stock. Here's the kicker: I bought a Galaxy S 4G a while back from eBay, it was flashed with a stock image before it was sent to me, and it had the exact same issue. I ended up getting rid of the phone after I swapped the screen out to fix the broken screen on the Vibrant, but I'm wondering if the issue is somehow related to flashing to a stock ROM?
Does anyone have any idea why I'm having this issue and what, if anything, I can do to fix it?
Edit: I meant to add, I have also tried the T959UVJI6 OTA update, again flashed via heimdall. It did not help.
Hi. Any ideas? I'm stumped, and open to suggestions.
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I picked up a used Vibrant last week and it initially worked fine. However, it still had 2.1 installed so I decided to update to 2.2 with Kies Mini. After 4 hours of screwing around and with it and much searching of forums, I finally got it upgraded, but something seems to have happened to the phone in the process.
The phone acts like the USB is permanently on, even if no cable is attached. The USB plugged in notification stays on even when the cable is unplugged. After I charge the phone and unplug it, the battery indicator continues to show that it is charging. The main problem is that the phone gets stuck in some kind of loop when the phone is turned off and never truly turns off. Initially, what would happen was that the little loading circle indicator would appear then the battery charging icon would pop up for a moment. However, since there was no cable plugged in, it would disappear. After several seconds of a black screen, the loading circle would come back up. This loop would simply continue over and over. Pulling the battery and putting it back in did nothing; the loop would just start over again the moment the battery was inserted. The phone would not respond to the power button while this loop was going.
At this point, I was still able to get the phone to boot by plugging in the USB cable, waiting until it started to charge (with the green battery icon) and then hitting the power button. This went on for several days. Today, I decided to take the battery out for several hours to see if anything would reset. However, things only got worse. The loading icon still pops up but now the charging icon doesn't come up, even if the USB is plugged in. I just get a loop where the loading circle pops up, disappears, comes back, and so on. I am now also not able to power on the phone with the power button.
I am still able to get into download mode (but not recovery mode) so I flashed everything back to stock using Odin and the instructions on this forum. This does get the phone booted back up, but as soon as I turn it off again everything starts all over.
So now I have a phone that, if it is ever turned off or loses power, has to be reset, wiping everything in the process. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Is it some kind of bootloader issue?
Odin, put 2.1 stock rom back.
Like the post before me mentioned, Odin back to stock 2.1
And personally, I'd much rather install stock froyo with ODIN rather than KIES.
Or just use a Custom ROM altogether.
As I mentioned in the original post, I've already restored the phone with Odin several times and it has absolutely no effect. It allows the phone to boot once but as soon as it is turned off again the loop starts over.
mordrid52 said:
As I mentioned in the original post, I've already restored the phone with Odin several times and it has absolutely no effect. It allows the phone to boot once but as soon as it is turned off again the loop starts over.
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I have heard of KIES updates screwing phones before! I would contact T-mobile and tell them the situation....letting them know its used and had stock T-mo 2.1 and after using KIES to upgrade to 2.2 it screwed your phone.
Eventhough its used and You didnt buy it from them, they would probably fix it for you for free since their update program caused the issue...If it was a stock phone then they will probably fix it.
edit: in your story to them, leave out the part about you using ODIN...i am sure they will call that a void of the warranty.
My sister has a Samsung Galaxy y phone running Gingerbread 2.3.3 (not rooted). She plugged the phone after it ran out of charge and saw this screen (pic attached) with the battery icon empty and a blue triangle with a crossed out battery symbol inside it. The phone would not power up
We tried everything : checked charger, plug points, usb charging, taking out battery and cleaning contacts but everything is fine.
Please help if anyone knows what this is
NOt sure if it will help anymore but this happened to me, I couldn't figure it out. TO make a long story short. I got another battery at full charge, put phone into download mode and used Odin application on my PC to get back to stock . Phone booted and worked fine with charging and all. It might be the port but i'm not sure
Only when my phone goes under 50 percent does it not charge now. Its odd. I am getting a replacement phone soon.
Edit- I'm using an At&t galaxy note.
What solved the problem
Well, my sister just took the phone to the service centre coz it was within warranty. Those guys gave it back to her with a new battery and some patches installed...they were not prepared to say which . Anyway, now her phone is fine. Seems to be something exclusive with samsung devices.
Battery issue
I had the same issue with my unrooted HTC Evo 4g a while back, when the charger was plugged in it would charge for about a minute then I would have a blue triangle on my battery icon. I replaced the battery and all was right again hope this helps anyone else who reads this even though it sounds like your sister's issue is resolved.
Okay so I know it was the phone that got messed up. I had originally been rooted with a custom rom and the issue occurred randomly. Come to find out, after I odin'ed back to stock with a spare battery at 100 percent the phone started working normally but... Once the phone got back below 20 percent or so it started not charging. It was so odd. Basically it wasn't the rom or the battery. I used 2 seperate batteries. It was definitely the port or the phone's internal memory got corrupted. It was weird and maybe it will never be pin pointed what the issue was but in the end if the phone went below 50-20 percent it wouldn't charge. Note: If the phone was put into download mode, I could leave it on the charger and it would charge no matter what, so technically I could have lived with the phone only charging in download mode until I got it over 50 percent, then I could of charged it in the car or other chargers.
I went back to the store once I Odined back to stock and they just gave me a new phone, thanks to Warranties. If anyone gets stuck with your phone being rooted and rom'ed, just go to download/ODIN mode and charge your phone up until you can odin it back to stock, then take it back to the store for a replacement if your within warranty.
Problem solved. Just flash it with odin
This problem can be solved by flashing with an odin a firmware with pit and bootloader. The tools are provided in the link. Download it and flash your phone.
download it from
d-h.st/PF5
Before flashing download the usb drivers and install it.
mediafire.com/download/7srv709j7nkivj0/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
(copy and paste link in your browser)
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I'm going to try to be as specific as possible.
I had been flashing pretty much every third release of cm9 until the AOKP port came out a month or so ago. I was running the first aokp release until wednesday, at which point I switched over to the newest version. For each of the different ICS releases, I wiped, installed, rebooted, wiped cache, installed, gapps, rebooted, and never had any problems.
On the most recent install, everything was running smoothly and didn't have any problems. Last night, I put my phone on silent for a movie at about 8p. At about 11, I noticed my phone was dead while at a friend's house, so I plugged my phone in and walked away. I picked my phone up after I left, went home, and plugged it in again. I got the moto bootup, then it went to the battery splash, which showed 5%, and it immediately jumped to 100%. I rebooted, and it sits on the motorola screen. If I unplug it, it immediately dies; plugging it back in without hitting the power button takes me back to the battery splash, 5%-100% (the led changes colors as well).
So, I still have the rom and things on my sd card, so I reflashed, but it's doing the same thing. If i hit power, it gets to the moto screen, then black screen, then reboots. I'm using joker's recovery. If I plug the phone into my computer, I get a white LED, and no power, no found new device notice on windows, and nothing in device manager.
I'm sort of at a loss at this point. I think I could possibly use the microsd->sd adapter and put another rom on my phone's sd card, but that's about the only way I'll be able to transfer files.
tl;dr
1) Phone (running ics aokp, joker's cwm) died last night, will no longer charge
2) battery splash goes from 5%-100%, but the battery is actually dead
3) Can get into recovery, but the rom i flashed hasn't been bootable
If you guys have any ideas, I'd love to hear them. I think I'm going to try to throw a different rom onto the sd card, but I'm not sure why it would, or could affect the battery charging pre-boot.
Get a Spare battery from your friend and flash SBF.
Give a shot.
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Get a Spare battery from your friend and flash SBF.
Give a shot.
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Yeah, I'm waiting until the sprint store opens so I can grab a charger.
Update: My sprint store no longer sells the photon, nor do they have a battery/external charger. I called sprint, and they're sending me a new phone. I'm just going to use the new battery to (hopefully) use rd and flash the sbf, then keep the new one.
Alright, so hopefully this will help if anyone has the same issue:
I borrowed a friend's battery and was able to flash the stock sbf onto my phone, relocking it. Even after that, I'm still not able to charge my battery; it still jumps from 5%-100% with zero charge.
When I called sprint, I just told them that the battery wouldn't charge, and I wasn't able to boot. They had me go into recovery (which at that point was still cwm for me, but I pretended to follow along with their steps) and factory reset. When I told them it still wasn't working, he put me on hold to talk to his supervisor, then said he was going to send me a replacement. I think I might have lucked out a bit, since I'm not within 100 miles of a repair center.
So I wasn't able to fix my phone, but at least when I send it back to sprint, it will be locked. I guess the fact that I'm getting a new phone is a bonus.
I had kind of the same issue, but being that my phone is out of warrant, am out of luck. Now I have to use an external charger or hope to be by a computer before my battery completely drains out :-(. I can still charge if I plug it into a USB port on a computer.
Has anyone figured this problem out I have the same problem just this morning.... I'm not anywhere near uss store ... I have tried 2 batteries and both do the same
OK so I went and got a dock for the batteries and after letting them charge and die again they seem to charge fine in the phone now.. very weird
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A few days ago my phone got soaked through my pants as I was working in the rain. I came home, dried it out, etc. and tried to turn it on. Wouldn't turn on, so I started charging it. I eventually got it to turn on and it seemed to be working fine except for some reason it said the battery life was at 0 %. Note that it was still working normally otherwise.
I went into recovery, made a backup, and did a factory reset to see if that would fix the problem. It didn't, so I restored the backup. Now the phone won't turn on at all.
When plugged in, it shows the charging battery symbol, and if you hold power to turn the phone on it will sometimes begin to start, but it gets to the boot animation and simply stays there forever (I've left it at the boot animation for several hours to no effect). If I try to boot into recovery it simply does not work; it will either just restart the battery charging animation or boot normally (and then get stuck on the boot animation).
In a last ditch effort, I was going to try to flash a stock ROM from Heimdall. However, I plugged my phone in and tried to enter download mode and was greeted with the error: "LOW BATTERY!! CAN'T DOWNLOAD!!." This was after charging the phone all night. I then proceeded to charge the phone for another hour then try again, to the same error. And now here I am. It seems the problem is that my phone will charge, and the battery will be full but for some reason the phone doesn't recognize that the battery has a charge, so it just thinks it's at 0%. I've tried a different battery and was unsuccessful. Is there any way that I can either force my phone to enter download mode or somehow get it to recognize the charge on the battery? Or is there some other way I could resolve this? Or is my phone simply gone for good?
I am (was) running a rooted I777 with Slim Bean ROM ( I believe v8) 4.2.
Have you tried using a JIG it can be an option
If a JIG doesn't work you can try removing the battery, then plug the phone to the PC and go to download.
But for me the problem is with the battery. If after flashing the ROM you get the same results, don't think it and BUY A NEW BATTERY.
Good luck.
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If I'm bad at English is because I'm from Argentina and I'm learning.
I has the same problema, I spend two days searching on the web, but i didnt have any idea.., ,y problem is. when we conect to ANY charger (car/wall/PC-USB..) appears on screen a batery logo, but the batery never charged..., I tried to enter to the CW but, the keys combination doesnt make anything on the phone, and without live on it, I cant access to CW..., I wait for 2 hrs, with these cell phone conected to charger to see if the it gone works...
ANYONE has another idea for how we resolve these issue? My phone has a stable version of CyanogenMod..
same with me but what i did was put a different battery in, let it charge for a bit then put the original one in and it only started charging after i used my car charger as i was driving to work so thats how i fixed mine.
The title says it all. My brothers Note 2 will only boot past the Galaxy Note 2 boot screen if it is connected to the charger. It doesn't matter if it is a USB or wall charge. If the phone is connected to a power source it boots into the system fine, however, once you remove it from the power source it turns off. I was wondering if it could be a bad battery but the charge is showing it at almost 80%. Has anyone ran into something like this before? If I try to boot the phone without it being connected, it sits at the Note 2 screen for about 15 seconds and then shuts itself off.
I'm not really sure but it sounds like the internals of the battery are closing up (shorting). Are you able to get another battery to test and see if it is the battery?
Note 2 - Boots , Loops, No SDS Detected as per eMMC checker on play store
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The title says it all. My brothers Note 2 will only boot past the Galaxy Note 2 boot screen if it is connected to the charger. It doesn't matter if it is a USB or wall charge. If the phone is connected to a power source it boots into the system fine, however, once you remove it from the power source it turns off. I was wondering if it could be a bad battery but the charge is showing it at almost 80%. Has anyone ran into something like this before? If I try to boot the phone without it being connected, it sits at the Note 2 screen for about 15 seconds and then shuts itself off.
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Having same issues
Seems it hardware plus software issue.
Running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
Happened after installing few games .
Goes in constant boot loop
Can start by attaching power cord only to socket.
With USB attached to Laptop .. still goes in loop
Powerbank is workaround.
Seems to reboot when saving to sd card ..
Will keep posted
technoracy said:
Having same issues
Seems it hardware plus software issue.
Running 4.1.1 Jelly Bean
Happened after installing few games .
Goes in constant boot loop
Can start by attaching power cord only to socket.
With USB attached to Laptop .. still goes in loop
Powerbank is workaround.
Seems to reboot when saving to sd card ..
Will keep posted
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The problem, after getting a stock image back on the phone, ended up being a bad battery. The phone wouldn't hold a charge even though the charging image showed otherwise. Once you get a working image on there, try replacing the battery. I ordered an eight dollar cheapo battery from Amazon and it worked like a charm.
chrisjm00 said:
The problem, after getting a stock image back on the phone, ended up being a bad battery. The phone wouldn't hold a charge even though the charging image showed otherwise. Once you get a working image on there, try replacing the battery. I ordered an eight dollar cheapo battery from Amazon and it worked like a charm.
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I second this. My phone went down Saturday. Thought it was something with CyanogenMod 11, but flashing back to stock did nothing. Replaced the battery, haven't had any problems since.
chrisjm00 said:
The problem, after getting a stock image back on the phone, ended up being a bad battery. The phone wouldn't hold a charge even though the charging image showed otherwise. Once you get a working image on there, try replacing the battery. I ordered an eight dollar cheapo battery from Amazon and it worked like a charm.
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Thats first thing i did .. checked different battery ..
Battery is fine .. its not battery issue .. atleast in my case ..
i checked for SDS .. my phone has no SDS insane bug either .. though symptoms were same .
I have backup phone, using it.
I showed for mobile repair.
Said he will solve it .
So plan to take tomorrow.
I can root and all..
But after this booting dont want to brick it ..
So plan to do it via the mobile repair shop
Had same issue. Solved after replace the battery.
I have the same issue right now as well. I was on stock for awhile and used casual one click method, switched between a few roms. Than it started happening after that. So I flashed back to stock on odin and still have that issue. Havent figured it out yet.
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Boot cycle loop
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I'm not really sure but it sounds like the internals of the battery are closing up (shorting). Are you able to get another battery to test and see if it is the battery?
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I have had this issue and replacing the battery did the trick. I was having issues with the battery beforehand. once the battery showed as being at 17% the phone would start the reboot cycle and not fully boot until it was plugged in.
Have same problem here.....All these started when I replaced my bulge battery. New battery doesn't hold power below 20%. Phone goes off in boot cycle until plugged in a charger
Try to boot on USB/PC data connection
When connected t PC-system will boot to a point. PC indicates new connection then looses it and Note 2 returns to flash screen. Problem start when using corporate email and encrypted data. Works w/o error connected to wall charger. Disconnect crashes system. Flashes screen forever. No diagnostics. Did all SW reboots. Doubt battery, but will try.
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When connected t PC-system will boot to a point. PC indicates new connection then looses it and Note 2 returns to flash screen. Problem start when using corporate email and encrypted data. Works w/o error connected to wall charger. Disconnect crashes system. Flashes screen forever. No diagnostics. Did all SW reboots. Doubt battery, but will try.
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Did you ever test a new battery/figure it out?
Mine is doing the same thing I think. I only boots if connected to a wall charger. If connected to PC with USB it will boot to the [T-Mobile in my case] boot screen, connect to PC for a split second (long enough to make the connection sound in windows, then I can't find it) and it stays on that screen. Without being connected to either, or after pulling plug, it turns off.
Same problem here with mine
can't be just the battery because it will stay on w/o charger when in download/recovery mode or if it gets stuck on the Verizon screen.
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android 4.4.2
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hardware version I605.06
I'm having the same issue but i can boot into recovery without the charger.