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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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Some custom kernels have a problem with the highest resolution for the front camera due to memory allocation. Go to settings / applications / all and clear data for camera.
Load up the camera switch to the front one and check its working.
If it is don't select the highest resolution for the front camera use the middle one.
If that doesn't work maybe another problem.
Please state what rom and kernel versions you are running, more info the better.
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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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Appears to be a S3 problem specificically, camera failure problems. Google ' galaxy s3 camera failed ' and there are numerous reports ranging.
from only a day old out of the box to a couple of weeks. Some reports of total failure, some hardware restart temporarily fixed, some app sharing hardware such as skype hogging the camera.
I think Verizon in the US are saying return for replacement..
Hope this helps.
Having the same problem. I thought it might have been an app I installed - I uninstalled all apps that used the camera. Still no dice. Did a factory reset. Still no dice.
Called Verizon and explained that I'd already tried a factory reset to no avail. The service rep didn't ask me to do anything else. Because I've full device insurance coverage I'm getting a new phone overnighted and should have it no later than 3pm tomorrow.
j0shtalgia said:
Having the same problem. I thought it might have been an app I installed - I uninstalled all apps that used the camera. Still no dice. Did a factory reset. Still no dice.
Called Verizon and explained that I'd already tried a factory reset to no avail. The service rep didn't ask me to do anything else. Because I've full device insurance coverage I'm getting a new phone overnighted and should have it no later than 3pm tomorrow.
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i am having the same issue, and also hve full insurance, however they will not replace my phone with a new one, only factory refurb. Who did you speak to about getting a new phone? this is really frustrating...
s3 camera fail fix
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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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I had the same issue and tried factory reset, 3rd party camera apps. nothing worked even updated camera firmware and phone firmware still black screen with camera fail. I took off the battery cover, removed the battery, removed the phillips screws in back. carefully popped off back housing and the camera flex cable is right there. i simply unclipped and reconnected it and made sure the camera was seated tight by pushing on it.(carefully as not to damage lcd). I will say i have no warranty because i bought second hand but the are no void stickers over screws so no way to tell its been opened. camera works perfect now. I repair phones as a hobby and remebered the galaxy one having a speaker issue just like it. anyway worth a shot or if you have a warranty just get a replacement but it took me about 3 minutes,
Camera fail
I would like to update the post with my findings:
Since my last post, I did a warranty exchange on the phone. Upon receiving the new one, I reverted the broken one back to stock through the tutorial on XDA (using a prev leak bootchain, ODIN flash, etc).
All went flawlessly, and after reverted to pure stock, the camera worked again. I re-rooted and re-flashed a variety of ROMs (ASOP & TW). camera worked fine through all of it. It wasn't until I did play store updates that things went bad. After the updates the camera stopped working again. So Once again I flashed back to stock. Camera worked again. I felt comfortable doing this as I could re-produce the problem and solution.
After fooling with app updates etc I determined that the Google Talk / Goog Hangouts update was the culprit. Once that was installled the camera was inaccessible. I have since not taken that update (been a few weeks now) and all is still fine.
moral of the story to folks out there, watch out for the Hangouts update. I dont have any more info than that. Just wanted to share.
412ecase77 said:
I had the same issue and tried factory reset, 3rd party camera apps. nothing worked even updated camera firmware and phone firmware still black screen with camera fail. I took off the battery cover, removed the battery, removed the phillips screws in back. carefully popped off back housing and the camera flex cable is right there. i simply unclipped and reconnected it and made sure the camera was seated tight by pushing on it.(carefully as not to damage lcd). I will say i have no warranty because i bought second hand but the are no void stickers over screws so no way to tell its been opened. camera works perfect now. I repair phones as a hobby and remebered the galaxy one having a speaker issue just like it. anyway worth a shot or if you have a warranty just get a replacement but it took me about 3 minutes,
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I would just like to share my experience, it may help someone... I also had this problem and fixed similar to desc. above... I had taken apart phone and cleaned out mostly all of my connectors because of water damage/corrosion issues.. I suppose I had bent the cam ribbons slightly out of place... this in turn, for some reason maybe somebody with more knowledge can answer, caused the phone to no longer power up or show any sign of life... I could not figure out and ended up paying my deductable for new phone... I knew it was specifically related to me removing the cam because I had already cleaned and got phone to a working state, but the cam didnt work so I took apart again cleaned cam port and voilà my phone stopped powering up completely... wtf! sooooo I just recently went back after reading above, and dramatically bent the cam ribbons to make sure contact was good... now everything works.. ya live and learn
snowboardwcu said:
I would like to update the post with my findings:
Since my last post, I did a warranty exchange on the phone. Upon receiving the new one, I reverted the broken one back to stock through the tutorial on XDA (using a prev leak bootchain, ODIN flash, etc).
All went flawlessly, and after reverted to pure stock, the camera worked again. I re-rooted and re-flashed a variety of ROMs (ASOP & TW). camera worked fine through all of it. It wasn't until I did play store updates that things went bad. After the updates the camera stopped working again. So Once again I flashed back to stock. Camera worked again. I felt comfortable doing this as I could re-produce the problem and solution.
After fooling with app updates etc I determined that the Google Talk / Goog Hangouts update was the culprit. Once that was installled the camera was inaccessible. I have since not taken that update (been a few weeks now) and all is still fine.
moral of the story to folks out there, watch out for the Hangouts update. I dont have any more info than that. Just wanted to share.
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so you got 2 s3's out of it? nice
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so you got 2 s3's out of it? nice
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No no I sent the refurb one back to vzw. Had a lot of bad luck with factory refurbs.
i know this may be a necro thread, but I just had the same issue and I solved it by replacing the front facing camera/prox sensor assembly. tried new main cameras first but when those didn't fix it I replaced the front facing and everything worked fine.
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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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I fixed it on my SGH-T999L with Jedi Invasion 5 by flashing this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756776
Use the Touchwiz JELLYBEAN 4.1.2 VERSION
I'm brand new to this forum, but my uncle has been a member since 2008 and says you guys are the best when it comes to helping with problems for Android.
I'm having the camera issue, as well, and it spans across all camera apps, snapchat, Skype, etc. I just now discovered the front facing camera works when before it wouldn't even let me switch to it, making me think both cameras were dead. I've tried a different ROM, kernel, battery pulls, rebooting, everything in the list. I even dismantled my phone and pressed the connection in a bit, and still no luck. (Thankfully I didn't completely wreck my phone, though.) I'm trying switching from a different developer now, since I was using the only two TouchWiz ROMs I could find for my Cricket d2cri, both by the same guy. I'm hoping against hope it's an issue with the guy's programming and that it's not a sudden hardware failure after nearly a year of having the phone.
If anyone happens across this thread and has any ideas that haven't been said as to what I can do, please, throw me a message or respond to the thread. What good is a phone without a camera these days?
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I'm brand new to this forum, but my uncle has been a member since 2008 and says you guys are the best when it comes to helping with problems for Android.
I'm having the camera issue, as well, and it spans across all camera apps, snapchat, Skype, etc. I just now discovered the front facing camera works when before it wouldn't even let me switch to it, making me think both cameras were dead. I've tried a different ROM, kernel, battery pulls, rebooting, everything in the list. I even dismantled my phone and pressed the connection in a bit, and still no luck. (Thankfully I didn't completely wreck my phone, though.) I'm trying switching from a different developer now, since I was using the only two TouchWiz ROMs I could find for my Cricket d2cri, both by the same guy. I'm hoping against hope it's an issue with the guy's programming and that it's not a sudden hardware failure after nearly a year of having the phone.
If anyone happens across this thread and has any ideas that haven't been said as to what I can do, please, throw me a message or respond to the thread. What good is a phone without a camera these days?
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I am having the same issue, and I did try many things: revert to stock, changing kernel, try other camera apps, wiping camera app datas, Still nothing, if someone can help with other method please.
I got "camera fail" after i flashed ArchiDroid 1.7.2 coming from PAC nightly. Then flashed ArchiDroid 2.2.4 and camera got fixed. All flashes where clean
In my experience, custom ROMs and kernels can also cause this issue. I flashed a different custom ROM and voila, my camera was working again
s 3 camera failed
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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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hi I was having the same problem with my camera and I installed 3rd party camera software and the camera seem to work using this. I used camera mx
Camera faillled warning
I HAVE THE PROBLEM OF CAMERA FAIL WARNING IN S5 SENSATION ROM
I AM USING S3 Gt i9300 IS THERE ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM
THE CAMERA DOESNT WORK ONLY IN S5 SENSATION ROM
That is usually caused after flashing a custom kernel without having opened the camera app at least once with the stock kernel.
Go back to stock kernel, open the camera and it should work. Now flash the custom kernel and don't do a factory reset or you'll be in the same again
Which kernel you using? If you on 4.4.2 i recommended Archi Kernel.
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well,
With due respect, i would let all of u guys to know that i have been suffering from touch problem with xperia neo MT15i. the problem is that when i want to unlock my phone with slide lock than the touch does not response properly! i mean i need to slide the lock for several time through my thumb. is not it bothering? despite it , whenever i can manage to unlock my phone by sliding over, initially the touch does not respond smoothly! suppose, whenever i go to the apps drawer instantly after unlocking, the app or game start while i try to slide over to go to the next apps drawer! that means on which app or game my thumb touches for sliding and going in next page, my phones receives that i wanted to stat the game or app! please help me! please!!!!!!! please response my sms!!! i ardently request to all the XDA guys!!!
well, i need to add some xtra info. regarding my problem, that i have rooted my phone several times through flash tool and stock rom with locked boot loader! i have never suffered from touch problem in before! recently i have been! i also wanna mention that, the problem arose suddenly! one day i wake up from bed and my phone was behind me! so i guess that my phone display have been strongly pressured through my arm or something else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so please help me considering all the issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!! android version: ics 4.0.4,build number: 4.1.B.0.587,kernel: 2.6.32.9-perf!!!!!!!!
Just want to say that same thing is happening to me last few weeks with same phone. Thing is, it didn't worked worse and worse, but it just worked well one day, and the other day it was terrible, and it still works equally terrible. I never rooted or flashed my phone and never sleeped on it so I think that's not the problem.
Hope you can help us..
Oli0909 said:
Just want to say that same thing is happening to me last few weeks with same phone. Thing is, it didn't worked worse and worse, but it just worked well one day, and the other day it was terrible, and it still works equally terrible. I never rooted or flashed my phone and never sleeped on it so I think that's not the problem.
Hope you can help us..
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i think u are supposed to flash ur ROM using flash tool! bout for doing these u need to downolad ftf. file from the ROM section and flashtool software also! its very easy to flash ur phone!!!!! i hope problem will be solved!!!!! dont forget to back up ur files before flashing!!!!!!!
Same here
Hey, I'm having the same issue with my Xperia Neo (MT15i). :crying:
My phone is nearly 2 years old. I have used Gingerbread, then ICS, Jelly Bean (Rooted-Cyanagenmod). I had no issue with the touch screen earlier. Since the phone performs bit slow on advanced android versions I decided to install Gingerbread again to make it faster.
From the day I installed GB again, I'm having this issue.
Gotta swipe about 4 times to answer or reject a call. (Even I do press power button to off the screen, then power button again only then swipe works)
Swipe about 4 times to unlock the screen.
Try the pattern about 4 times.
I believe it's a software issue. If it's a hardware issue touch screen should not be working at all right? The thing is, it only malfunctions like that for the first 4~5 touches when the screen turned on. After that the whole touch screen works perfectly.
I was using my phone rooted for a long time without any issue. This started when I tried to flash gingerbread again in last month. I flashed another gingerbread tft, but the problem still remains.
Today I flashed the kernel to FusioN v5.5 and installed MIUI 5, still the issue is there...
touch problem
Samith_LK said:
Hey, I'm having the same issue with my Xperia Neo (MT15i). :crying:
My phone is nearly 2 years old. I have used Gingerbread, then ICS, Jelly Bean (Rooted-Cyanagenmod). I had no issue with the touch screen earlier. Since the phone performs bit slow on advanced android versions I decided to install Gingerbread again to make it faster.
From the day I installed GB again, I'm having this issue.
Gotta swipe about 4 times to answer or reject a call. (Even I do press power button to off the screen, then power button again only then swipe works)
Swipe about 4 times to unlock the screen.
Try the pattern about 4 times.
I believe it's a software issue. If it's a hardware issue touch screen should not be working at all right? The thing is, it only malfunctions like that for the first 4~5 touches when the screen turned on. After that the whole touch screen works perfectly.
I was using my phone rooted for a long time without any issue. This started when I tried to flash gingerbread again in last month. I flashed another gingerbread tft, but the problem still remains.
Today I flashed the kernel to FusioN v5.5 and installed MIUI 5, still the issue is there...
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i am totally confused bro what to do!!! on a very day i went to a hardware technicians shop to solve the problem!! they said it may be hardware problem but did not say surely!!!!!!! i am looking forward a kind help from any expert of this forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm having the same.i have tried anything but still same issue.
Hello people!
I had the same problem when 2 of my friends tried to pull the phone vigorously! -_-
I had to swipe 4-5 to get it to respond and the screen would act weird for another couple of seconds! -_-
Tried Factory Reset etc but still no use!
So I took it to the service center and they said it could be the digitizer(screen) problem but not sure, and that it would cost 4k for that!
Fortunately I had another problem with the sound setting on my phone so I gave it back to them to solve that at least. They flashed the phone with latest ftf(some GB ftf at the time) and gave back the phone saying they couldn't solve the sound issue.
BUT to my surprise/luck my screen prob was fixed! And I dint pay them a single pie!
So I think y'all should try flashing the Stock ftf, preferably ICS 4.1.B.0.587 and its Kernel
Here is the link - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1952333
I hope it works for y'all! All the best!
P.S - I'm now running Super Jelly Bean 8.0 on SuperFusionNeoKK Kernel
Assalamu Alaikum everyone, I bought xperia m4 aqua dual model version e2333 a few months ago, the phone was totally okay, after getting the software update, i though it would improve my performance, so updated and after updating my phone camera started acting weird, and suddenly after a day, the front camera button got missing from camera app, and there is no front camera access in 3rd party apps, its like this phone didnt came up with front camera function! tried to diagnose but not detecting the front camera...im pretty sure its an software issue! what I tried
1)Clearing the camera app data/cache
2)Flashed old stock .ftf, cause i thought old firmware will give my camera function back, but it didnt
3) Xperia companion didnt solve the issue
many will come up here thatws an hardware issue, but before saying that, google about this, cause not only xperia m4 but many devices are facing same kinda issues I cant take selfies now, some please help me out, any advanced solution is welcomed too! i would like to try cm but cm has camera bugs so is there any possible solution? TIA
I have the exact same problem, except that even my back camera stops working sometimes. Factory reset/system repair did nothing to help so I might send it in for repairs (for the 3rd ****ing time). This phone has seriously been nothing but trouble and I really regret buying it :/
Try holding PWR + VOLUP buttons combined for 5+ seconds and switching Xperia device on again.
I have the same issue. I'm using Sony Xperia C5 Dual and it all started by the firmware upgrade. At first the whole camera app won't work including 3rd party cam apps, I've tried clearing the cache, resetting my phone and also using xperia repair app. Fortunately after the xperia companion repair, camera was working again, but it won't show the selfie camera button anymore.. tried to repeat every troubleshooting i've performed before but selfie button is still missing
migsalcri said:
I have the same issue. I'm using Sony Xperia C5 Dual and it all started by the firmware upgrade. At first the whole camera app won't work including 3rd party cam apps, I've tried clearing the cache, resetting my phone and also using xperia repair app. Fortunately after the xperia companion repair, camera was working again, but it won't show the selfie camera button anymore.. tried to repeat every troubleshooting i've performed before but selfie button is still missing
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wtf is sony upto , i dont get it, I found one guy over google , he is using xperia z3 and he is facing same problem! man thats not a cheap phone, ours one isnt either :/
ugurcansayan said:
Try holding PWR + VOLUP buttons combined for 5+ seconds and switching Xperia device on again.
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tried bro, even tried safe mode, didnt work
StoyanP said:
I have the exact same problem, except that even my back camera stops working sometimes. Factory reset/system repair did nothing to help so I might send it in for repairs (for the 3rd ****ing time). This phone has seriously been nothing but trouble and I really regret buying it :/
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what exactly they do (repairers) ? replace camera or what? man I dont have warranty of this phone what should I do now I feel so pissed , its not even 2month I bought this one :/ even cheap phones have front cam too :|
StoyanP said:
I have the exact same problem, except that even my back camera stops working sometimes. Factory reset/system repair did nothing to help so I might send it in for repairs (for the 3rd ****ing time). This phone has seriously been nothing but trouble and I really regret buying it :/
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I'm 5 months into a 24 month contract with this phone. Sending it in for the second time. This time to fix the back camera as well. The first time was for the GPS and it doesn't even work properly
Same here...
Front camera button not there
No access to front camera using diagnostic...
Could it be related to the TA/DRM keys?
I unlocked my bootloader and rooted the phone without having a proper backup (silly me).
Since then i reinstalled, relocked uprooted.
Could the marshmallow update fix this maybe?
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jestn said:
Same here...
Front camera button not there
No access to front camera using diagnostic...
Could it be related to the TA/DRM keys?
I unlocked my bootloader and rooted the phone without having a proper backup (silly me).
Since then i reinstalled, relocked uprooted.
Could the marshmallow update fix this maybe?
Sent from my E2363 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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im waiting for that too....seems no other ways left :/
jestn said:
Same here...
Front camera button not there
No access to front camera using diagnostic...
Could it be related to the TA/DRM keys?
I unlocked my bootloader and rooted the phone without having a proper backup (silly me).
Since then i reinstalled, relocked uprooted.
Could the marshmallow update fix this maybe?
Sent from my E2363 using XDA-Developers mobile app
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After marshmallow update, the problem isnt fixed yet, whats your status bro?
i have the same problem any solution?
Try phone in Safe Mode if button for front camera will appear. If still not appear then maybe you have hardware problem - front camera is faulty.
There is no software problem with lollipop and marshmallow regarding front camera.
Unlocking of bootloader and rooting of phone don't affect front camera.
Front camera is not available-soluton
I just found a method which worked for me after trying 100-s of methods. I got my phone back from repair, and found out this morning, that my camera app didn't contain the front camera button and Snapchat also didn't offer this. So I started to look after solutions, and then found out my phone was recently repaired, so it might be a problem around there. I thought it was an assembly mistake, and tried to push the area of the front camera lens between my two fingers... I rebooted the phone and it was finally back and working! I was so worried about this, and it luckily worked. I recommend this option, might be useful in some cases.
Sipos Sándor said:
I just found a method which worked for me after trying 100-s of methods. I got my phone back from repair, and found out this morning, that my camera app didn't contain the front camera button and Snapchat also didn't offer this. So I started to look after solutions, and then found out my phone was recently repaired, so it might be a problem around there. I thought it was an assembly mistake, and tried to push the area of the front camera lens between my two fingers... I rebooted the phone and it was finally back and working! I was so worried about this, and it luckily worked. I recommend this option, might be useful in some cases.
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not works for me
Help!
Did anyone fix this problem?I'm facing the same problem.how can I fix it?
install a app like open camera for the device from playstore
I'm on latest stock MM and I had this strange problem. several reboots fixed it. but then if I reboot the device again the problem came back. dunno what might caused this. maybe a hardware fault? planning on disassembling this device to see if reattach the cam module would fix the issue (as well replacing my back cover and main camera. somehow my main camera just won't focus).
So i bought the phone yesterday,i opened it and did the casual setup including setting up 10 times my finger on the scanner.
So by the time the phone was setted for first time there were official software updates poping and i clicked them to download and install...after the updates were done i found out that fingerprint sensor settings were missing (both lock screen and fingerprint & security section) so i did a factory reset hoping it was just a minor issue...After the factory reset the options were still missing...i got 5 days left to return the phone if there are problems and i want to know if anybody knows
1.is the problem software related and i just need to wait for official update to get fixed?(i heard december lg launches official nougat version for the G5)
2.is it hardware problem so i take the phone back for repair?(power button works perfectly)
i really loved the phone so far especially the camera and everything and i really want to enjoy it (my prev phone had a lot of software bugs and i never actually enjoyed full of it...)
anyone know any fixes?i dont want to get into custom rom again (i really like the lg ui for change) if its software problem
Thank you for your time!
i guess no one has the same problem and my device is faulty?
I would try and exchange it because I don't have this problem and if a factory reset didn't fix it it's probably a hardware issue.
tejasm1 said:
I would try and exchange it because I don't have this problem and if a factory reset didn't fix it it's probably a hardware issue.
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my bad people,it was NOT LG's problem,hardware AND software are perfect,its my first phone with scanner and i found out the hard way that to add fingerprint i HAVE to add a pin or a different unlock method before adding figners....sadly i rooted my device firstly to add cyanogemod and then i found out...so now i lost my warranty i guess...but at least now i know and if anyone else finds the same ""problem"" this thread will help him
Lesson learned for you. Why install a custom ROM right out from the start? Based on my experienced with my G5. It's performance is great. All things are great. I'm fine even if my phone is not rooted nor can't install a custom ROM. Unlike my G2. But by so far the phone is running great. So enjoy first the things on stock firmware.
bluerain28 said:
Lesson learned for you. Why install a custom ROM right out from the start? Based on my experienced with my G5. It's performance is great. All things are great. I'm fine even if my phone is not rooted nor can't install a custom ROM. Unlike my G2. But by so far the phone is running great. So enjoy first the things on stock firmware.
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i didnt want to install custom rom as i already had in my prev device (oneplus x) and i always likes lgs skin on android
but i wanted to see if the problem was software issue that cyanogen could fix in this case...i wanted lgs support to be my last resort as their services are bad,they tend to take week(s) to fix the phone and i heard from people that their phone returned scratched (that lg supported claimed they didnt do it)...so yeah i prefered to install custom rom and risk that i have to live without fingerprint than send the phone and get it back deleayed and probably in scratched condition
lesson learned indeed
Hello,
I have a Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 and it seem already to have died.
It doesn't start - no matter how long I press the button and it also doesn't start into bootloader.
I had no custom Rom or recovery installed.
I thought it could be the battery - device is pretty old, but even with the new one nothing happens.
Did somebody maybe had the same issue and/or has an idea what it "usually" else can be? I know... It CAN be every little component... But maybe some known one, what happens pretty often on Pad 4.
same here
I too have the same issue. I was on youtube with my charge on and it decided to die in a few minutes. Cannot switch it back on.
fgh11 said:
Hello,
I have a Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 and it seem already to have died.
It doesn't start - no matter how long I press the button and it also doesn't start into bootloader.
I had no custom Rom or recovery installed.
I thought it could be the battery - device is pretty old, but even with the new one nothing happens.
Did somebody maybe had the same issue and/or has an idea what it "usually" else can be? I know... It CAN be every little component... But maybe some known one, what happens pretty often on Pad 4.
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Replace motherboard --> see on Aliexpress