Hi guys.
I have a bit of a problem here. last night I was talking on the phone (Galaxy S3 I9305) with whatsapp and the connection was lost, it happens sometime because of my wifi I think and i restarted the phone but it never turned on. I was running stock samsung rom android 4.4.4 rooted. it worked fine until last night. I don't know why it won't turn on, the battery was about 30%. The thing is I can't go into recovery either. When i plug the phone to charge, nothing happens, like it wasn't plugged. even Odin can't find it when i connect it to my laptop. I don't know what to do or what happened. I just pray that yoou can tell me what happened and how to make my phone work.
thank you in advance fo any help.
Aldinou said:
Hi guys.
I have a bit of a problem here. last night I was talking on the phone (Galaxy S3 I9305) with whatsapp and the connection was lost, it happens sometime because of my wifi I think and i restarted the phone but it never turned on. I was running stock samsung rom android 4.4.4 rooted. it worked fine until last night. I don't know why it won't turn on, the battery was about 30%. The thing is I can't go into recovery either. When i plug the phone to charge, nothing happens, like it wasn't plugged. even Odin can't find it when i connect it to my laptop. I don't know what to do or what happened. I just pray that yoou can tell me what happened and how to make my phone work.
thank you in advance fo any help.
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Try plugging in the charger for quite sometime. There are chances that the battery would have drained completely so it may take sometime to boot.
mpadhu said:
Try plugging in the charger for quite sometime. There are chances that the battery would have drained completely so it may take sometime to boot.
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The thing is it doesn't show that it is charging.
I tried that for about 3 hours, still nothing. but I'll let it all night plugged.
Thank you
Aldinou said:
The thing is it doesn't show that it is charging.
I tried that for about 3 hours, still nothing. but I'll let it all night plugged.
Thank you
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Try with someother S3's battery. Could be a battery problem.
mpadhu said:
Try with someother S3's battery. Could be a battery problem.
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I tried. Nothing is happening. do you have any other idea ?
Aldinou said:
I tried. Nothing is happening. do you have any other idea ?
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There are chances that it could be hardware issue. Take it to a Samsung cervice centre. Say that it stopped booting all of a sudden. Do not say that you have rooted/custom recovery/other changes you might have done. They will find out whats the problem. If's it a OS problem then they will reflash it for some bucks.
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There are chances that it could be hardware issue. Take it to a Samsung cervice centre. Say that it stopped booting all of a sudden. Do not say that you have rooted/custom recovery/other changes you might have done. They will find out whats the problem. If's it a OS problem then they will reflash it for some bucks.
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I gave it to a service center who repare phones. They want to try with a new screen to see if something happens, if it boot. but he is thinking about the issue the S3 had when they came out, about the memory. I just hope that it isn't that
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I am the (un) lucky owner of a sgs2 since three days.
past days everything was fine, no probs. at all. Then this morning my phone isnt responding at all. wont go on, tried battery pull en stuff, nothing works. Is it possible it is broken after only 3 days?
are there any other tricks? anyone has the same problem?
or do i just have to go back to the store and get a new one? (problem is i bought it online so it will take a couple days for a new one )
thanks.
mathijsalbrecht said:
I am the (un) lucky owner of a sgs2 since three days.
past days everything was fine, no probs. at all. Then this morning my phone isnt responding at all. wont go on, tried battery pull en stuff, nothing works. Is it possible it is broken after only 3 days?
are there any other tricks? anyone has the same problem?
or do i just have to go back to the store and get a new one? (problem is i bought it online so it will take a couple days for a new one )
thanks.
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Hold volume down, home and power all at the same time, it should boot into download mode. If it doesn't I'd say it's dead
i tried but wont work...
thats f*cked up
mathijsalbrecht said:
i tried but wont work...
thats f*cked up
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Take/send it back to where ever you bought it from and get a refund/exchange, I think you're right, it's f***ed
mathijsalbrecht said:
tried battery pull en stuff
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i don't know if you tried this in the part "en stuff", but did you try to charge the phone? maybe the battery drained out over the night...
m4nu said:
i don't know if you tried this in the part "en stuff", but did you try to charge the phone? maybe the battery drained out over the night...
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Yeah that's probably a pretty good idea actually mate, try charging the thing before you make a total arse of yourself in the shop
did you charge the battery?
try another battery
LOL my SGS2 just did the same thing. I was gonna reboot it after having played around with default homescreen in default.prop, it had a 100% charged battery and now it won't start up again. Its completely dead. Not even download mode works...
Gonna try to leaving it without battery for a while or drain the battery somehow (with my tounge ) and try again. If that doesn't work, it's back to the store with this one. And it was all working so well until now...
EDIT: One hour later it magically started working again!!! I didn't do anything! just left it with the battery plugged in!
thnx im going to try charging it for a day, but i think its completely dead...
My brother's just told me that his S2 has died... he's not been able to get a 3G signal all day, and when he hard-reset the phone, it's come back with "Processing Error" and won't start.
Here's how it happened :
Flashed latest Dorimanx kernel last night on the latest Disaster Rom and then began texting,watching some youtube,usual stuff and then went to sleep.
In the morning I couldn't turn it on.
Then I hold the power button but it went bootlooping and kept staying on that Dorimanx starting image.
I succesfully booted and it showed battery at 9% ( it was at 90% when I went to bed).
My first thought was to wipe cache so I did that.But here's the problem.
It got stuck at wiping cache and nothing happened so I removed the battery and then it was dead.No sign of life.
So my question is: It's completely bricked and I can get it returned whitout them knowing that I have been using custom ROM's ?
Cheers
alex6vasy said:
Here's how it happened :
Flashed latest Dorimanx kernel last night on the latest Disaster Rom and then began texting,watching some youtube,usual stuff and then went to sleep.
In the morning I couldn't turn it on.
Then I hold the power button but it went bootlooping and kept staying on that Dorimanx starting image.
I succesfully booted and it showed battery at 9% ( it was at 90% when I went to bed).
My first thought was to wipe cache so I did that.But here's the problem.
It got stuck at wiping cache and nothing happened so I removed the battery and then it was dead.No sign of life.
So my question is: It's completely bricked and I can get it returned whitout them knowing that I have been using custom ROM's ?
Cheers
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Did you tried to charge it for at least 20 minutes?
If it won't charge, try to replace battery...
Bootloop is not a big deal (wipes will do the job) try replace/charge battery first, then if you still have problems just flash stock via odin and start over...
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
alex6vasy said:
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
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check the battery voltage, and or charge the battery externally. make sure its not a power issue first.
And what we're trying to say is try another battery. If that doesn't work, finita la musica.
alex6vasy said:
What I'm trying to say it's that it doesn't show any sign of life.No download mode,no recovery,no nothing.
I've left it with the charger plugged in for about 3 hours and nothing.
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MistahBungle said:
And what we're trying to say is try another battery. If that doesn't work, finita la musica.
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Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with me for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
That's nice. I've had my phone 15 months & had zero problems with it. Funny about that (there's a hint in there for people clever enough to figure it out).
kl13710 said:
I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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kl13710 said:
Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with my life for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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They make the best phones.You could maybe try another brand.
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{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
kl13710 said:
Yoh. It happened to me before. Some said charge your phone for a while. If it becomes warm near the battery, you can unbrick it a jig.
But my phone didn't get warm. So, I send it to the Samsung service center and yesterday I got it back.
Samsung messed with my life for two times! I'm not going to buy another samsung.
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Get a Nokia 3310, It should be more suited to you.
Oh, you bought it.........
{go back to your iphone since you are an android noob}
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Hey no worries bro I have bricked 2 sgs2's already and 1 sgs3. Yours is not bricked, happened to me as well. All you must do is connect usb to pc, while keeping the battery out. Then try turn it on normally. then, while it is on, insert your battery again and leave it to charge via usb for a while(tille batt is at least 85%, what I did). Then, before unplugging usb, turn phone off. Unplug usb and go into recovery and flash as per usual. You should be good now. Hope it helps.
kicker09 said:
Hey no worries bro I have bricked 2 sgs2's already and 1 sgs3. Yours is not bricked, happened to me as well. All you must do is connect usb to pc, while keeping the battery out. Then try turn it on normally. then, while it is on, insert your battery again and leave it to charge via usb for a while(tille batt is at least 85%, what I did). Then, before unplugging usb, turn phone off. Unplug usb and go into recovery and flash as per usual. You should be good now. Hope it helps.
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Tried but no luck
Hi all
My phone was shutting off instantly without any reason for couple of days and then I would turn it on. My battery was also acting weird. Sometimes when I turn it on it was showing 30% battery while before it was at 70%. Today, it turned off and wouldn't turn on. I tried Vol Up/Down+HOME+Power button and Home+Power button but it wouldn't turn on or go into recovery/download mode. When I put it on charge, charge symbol shows for a second and then it would turn off and then again on and off and continues forever.
Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated.
Either your battery is not accepting charge or is not getting any charge.
If you know someone else with an S2, ask to borrow their battery to find out whether your phone will boot.
I've a suspicion that you're going to have to replace either the battery or the USB charger port.....or maybe even both.
But the first thing to find out is if the phone boots with a 'known good' battery.
my wife says I'm a phone geek....
I'd have to agree......
keithross39 said:
Either your battery is not accepting charge or is not getting any charge.
If you know someone else with an S2, ask to borrow their battery to find out whether your phone will boot.
I've a suspicion that you're going to have to replace either the battery or the USB charger port.....or maybe even both.
But the first thing to find out is if the phone boots with a 'known good' battery.
my wife says I'm a phone geek....
I'd have to agree......
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Thanks a lot buddy for your reply.
An hour ago I put the phone on charge for about 15 minutes and the battery charging symbol stabilized. Then I pressed Power button and phone booted and was working fine. Then just to check, I shut off and it won't start again and came back to the same old problem. I would definitely battery from same phone and will let you know about the updates.
Regards,
Its a very weird problem. I have put the battery of my brother's SGS2 in my phone and the problem is same. Then when I put my battery in my brother's mobile then that mobile shows the same problem. After switching batteries many time, my brother's SGS2 with its own battery would show the same problem. In other words that mobile was dead also. Then I plugged out the battery from the other mobile and left it out for some time and plugged in again and mobile was ok.
After that I didn't risk to switch batteries again. I have the feeling that problem is not at hardware end. For some reasons my mobile's software is corrupting batteries. I remember to have re-calibrated the battery couple of days ago with software named "battery recalibrate". I am lost at what the problem might be and what to do anymore.
Pls help.
Flash firmware with Odin that will rule out software problems. Flash say lsw and see if its the same.
andrewwright said:
Flash firmware with Odin that will rule out software problems. Flash say lsw and see if its the same.
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But I am unable to go in recovery/download mode and can't boot the device. How can I install firmware with odin.
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But I am unable to go in recovery/download mode and can't boot the device. How can I install firmware with odin.
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Thought you got it to boot?
andrewwright said:
Thought you got it to boot?
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Any idea/suggestion to boot the device.
Jig to force it to download mode
Just for the record. I discovered the solution to be ridiculously simple. Battery pins connection was loose and by just putting a foiled tissue paper at below corner of battery to strengthen connection of pins, all was back to normal. Ahh! it was such a relief.
Happy days glad you sorted it:thumbup:
Hey guys so last night my phone died, and I left it charging overnight. I'm not sure if it was even charging properly because when I woke up this morning there was no indicator light on. (green or red).
When I try to turn the phone on it just keeps booting to the htc splash then turning black, before repeating the process. I've searched and searched and it seems like many people have had this problem? Does anybody know how to fix this? I've tried recovery and factory reset from the bootloader but those did absolutely nothing.
Btw I've never rooted my phone or anything like that. It's 100% stock from when I got it. Help!
fengstar said:
Hey guys so last night my phone died, and I left it charging overnight. I'm not sure if it was even charging properly because when I woke up this morning there was no indicator light on. (green or red).
When I try to turn the phone on it just keeps booting to the htc splash then turning black, before repeating the process. I've searched and searched and it seems like many people have had this problem? Does anybody know how to fix this? I've tried recovery and factory reset from the bootloader but those did absolutely nothing.
Btw I've never rooted my phone or anything like that. It's 100% stock from when I got it. Help!
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since you are stock and never rooted i would take it back to AT&T for replacement
Will they replace it for free? I don't have any kind of warranty.
And is there anything I can try before I take it to them? I'd like to avoid losing all my data if possible..
ok so i went into factory reset mode from the bootloader and the red triangle with exclamation mark came on. i wiped all the data from the drop down menu and rebooted the phone. however it's still going into the red triangle mode. how do I get out of this and actually get the phone to boot?
fengstar said:
Will they replace it for free? I don't have any kind of warranty.
And is there anything I can try before I take it to them? I'd like to avoid losing all my data if possible..
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if it is a att phone you have a year warrenty and they will replace it for free
jerrycoffman45 said:
if it is a att phone you have a year warrenty and they will replace it for free
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Okay going to take it to the store.. i give up lol. Thanks for the help.
fengstar said:
Okay going to take it to the store.. i give up lol. Thanks for the help.
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I have the same exact problem, but I AM rooted, running TWRP and ARHD 31.5. I've wiped and reflashed already, which fixed, but the battery completely drained again and after a full charge it went into loop mode. Help!
emf1138 said:
I have the same exact problem, but I AM rooted, running TWRP and ARHD 31.5. I've wiped and reflashed already, which fixed, but the battery completely drained again and after a full charge it went into loop mode. Help!
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I am having the same problem with the ARHD 31.5 and TWRP too ... But this started to happen after a battery calibration ..
Hi guys,
:crying: My device is not powering on, not charging, no led glowing when connecting to charger, and not connecting to PC also...it was working completely fine, but all of a sudden became kind of dead... please suggest something on how to get it back to life..
bricked amaze
gmm8877 said:
Hi guys,
:crying: My device is not powering on, not charging, no led glowing when connecting to charger, and not connecting to PC also...it was working completely fine, but all of a sudden became kind of dead... please suggest something on how to get it back to life..
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Too bad. What was the last thing you did with the phone when it was working?
Were you already running a custom ROM, s-off, unlocked? Any details, for example, did it die right in the middle of updating it perhaps?
First, see if anything happens with a different battery and charger--try to borrow, rather than spend the money, because it might have nothing to do with them. Make sure the charger is plugged in the right way.
Then report back here.
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Too bad. What was the last thing you did with the phone when it was working?
Were you already running a custom ROM, s-off, unlocked? Any details, for example, did it die right in the middle of updating it perhaps?
First, see if anything happens with a different battery and charger--try to borrow, rather than spend the money, because it might have nothing to do with them. Make sure the charger is plugged in the right way.
Then report back here.
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it was running on stock rom and was just rooted and nothing done to it. I was just using it normally.. first it was not charging and then I tried a different battery and it was not at all opening later. it opened once and the showed low battery and then never opened again...I replaced the battery thinking it was battery problem but it went waste...the charger is also fine and other phones are working with it.. and also I have tried other chargers, but it is still not charging..and not even showing the orange charging LED