My wife's S5 rebooted itself, then stuck on the white T-Mo 4GLTE splash screen (she's leery of updating past 4.x). I tried flashing stock (NK2) bootloader, modem, and firmware with the same result. With one added "feature" - the battery drained from 36% to 0. Just for fun I flashed PE1 and same thing happened.
Wipde cache and dalvik to see if that would help but got the same result.
I haven't tried a factory reset yet because she wants info from local storage and is pretty terrible about backing up.
Any suggestions?
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Plugged it into the wall charger for the faster charge, and when it hit 15% I thought what the hell. Seemed to stick on the splash screen again, but I left it alone and plugged in. Half an hour later... normal home screen is back.
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So, yesterday afternoon i plugged in my phone to charge (about 11 PM) and left it for the whole night. I also have to add that Ive been running a mobile AP on it for the whole time. Today morning, I wake up and its crazy hot. I quickly DC it from charging, remove the back cover and let it be for a sec. I unlock it, it runs for few seconds normally and BAM, background behind icons is black and it froze up. I remove the battery to perform a hard reset of sorts and then the worst thing happens... Phone is stuck on boot Samsung logo. I turn it off again, hoping for a quick fix but it accomplishes NOTHING. I plug it into the charger and battery icon is visible but the circle on it is stuck and nothing seems to be happening.
Now I go into recovery mode that's working - surprise! And delete cache and dalvik cache. Nothing. I go back delete those things again and battery stats too this time. Nothing. I go back and do a factory reset... Nothing. Yeah.
So, imo since recovery is working it can't be a burned CPU/RAM right? Most likely (or hopefully) it's just the software that died? Im in the process of downloading a ROM and I will put it on my ext. SD card along with super-wipe that I will run but I was wondering - are there any good ROMs (or something else that might save my ass) that can be installed using Odin?
Yeah, it seems it was the case. Just installed ROM from my ext. SD and it's booted up which is very nice. Seems that it overheated and somehow killed my everything. Which is weird and anyone cares to help me explain this?
Hey guys,
my I9100 died this morning. It won't turn on. It even does not show the charging icon, but I have a glimpse where the problem is located at: The NAND.
So some background: Yesterday, I plugged the phone onto my computer. Windows came up and said the storage is defective and it should be checked. I didn't thought about it and commaneded to do it. So everything was fine. Everything still worked.
The problem appeared this morning: I couldn't start Ingress. It always crashed with an IOException at booting up. So I wanted to clear the app's cache. The phone was calculating the sizes and then stuck. "Okay. No Prob. Just reboot." So I did and put it into my bag, because my ROM (Vanilla Rootbox) needs some time to boot. After some minutes I checked again and saw it stuck the Dorimanx bootscreen which I had disabled. I tried another reboot. It came up with the typical "Samsung Galaxy S II" Logo and the blue bar down it filled and it stuck again.
I tried another reboot by taking out the battery, but since then it doesn't turn on anymore. No Power+Home+Vol Up/Down; no charger; nothing.
With attached battery and charger, it get's hot around the camera lens, but nothing more.
I even tried another battery, some time waiting with battery and without battery; charging and not charging, but still it's dead.
So I think, Windows somehow managed to kill my NAND.
Any ideas?
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With the battery plugged in, it just get's warm.
Been running the GPE ROM flawlessly since I flashed on the 12th... Until today. Don't know if this is ROM related but maybe you guys can help.
Out of nowhere, my phone kept shutting off. Couldn't use it for more than a minute after booting before it would turn off completely. Battery was charged so I was kind of like 'wtf'. Then all of a sudden it wouldn't even get to the swirling colors boot screen. It would shut off halfway though the Samsung Custom logo. ****.
Tried plugging it in and pulling the battery multiple times. I can't even boot to recovery! The blue text shows in the upper left but then it will go off again. It's plugged in now but not showing the battery charging screen.
I can only get it to turn on for about a second. Am I ****ed? Is this thing bricked? Super random because I changed NOTHING this morning and it was fine yesterday.
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Been running the GPE ROM flawlessly since I flashed on the 12th... Until today. Don't know if this is ROM related but maybe you guys can help.
Out of nowhere, my phone kept shutting off. Couldn't use it for more than a minute after booting before it would turn off completely. Battery was charged so I was kind of like 'wtf'. Then all of a sudden it wouldn't even get to the swirling colors boot screen. It would shut off halfway though the Samsung Custom logo. ****.
Tried plugging it in and pulling the battery multiple times. I can't even boot to recovery! The blue text shows in the upper left but then it will go off again. It's plugged in now but not showing the battery charging screen.
I can only get it to turn on for about a second. Am I ****ed? Is this thing bricked? Super random because I changed NOTHING this morning and it was fine yesterday.
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It could be a power button failure, it's actually quite common on the S4.
Google "Galaxy s4 power button problems"
Check out this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1931310
Alright, I've got a hum-dinger here. I've been running CM12 for some time now, I started noticing much more frequent blue screens due to modem crashes so I wiped and reinstalled the ROM. Now I'm getting a really strange problem where so long as the phone is plugged in to something (charger, or computer) I can use the phone completely normally. The moment I unplug I get 1 of 2 scenarios:
1: the screen immediately goes blank (no power down sequence, no blue screen) and I'm kicked back to LG splash screen which then proceeds to go to the power off state. Attempting to power on again gets as far as the CM12 boot animation and then screen goes blank again. I've tried powering on several times from the stage only to get part way through the boot animation and then kicked back to the black screen.
2: Screen does not immediately go blank, I can swim around the home screens scroll to an app, even start an app - but about 10 seconds into the app the screen suddenly goes blank and I'm back at scenario 1.
The only way to get the phone past the ROM boot animation is to plug it back into something....but then I can't unplug lest I end up back at scenario 1.
The shutdown sequence almost looks like I tanked the battery, but going into the recovery (TWRP) I can see that I actually have a good 98% left.
Thinking CM12 had some issues, I tried another Lollipop ROM (blisspop) and I got the exact same behavior. Thinking Lollipop was still half-baked for this LG I reverted back to a KitKat ROM (CM11) and I got....the exact same behavior.
I tried wiping all the data, system, cache, dalvik, partitions and reinstalling completely from scratch -- but I get the exact same problem. The only thing I haven't tried yet is LGNPST back to 100% stock, but I'm struggling to see what difference that would make as I'm wiping out everything except the recovery between tries.
Anybody have any ideas, thoughts, comments? I'm grasping at straws here.....
You could always try to load the stock rom back on the phone to see if that does anything. Another thing you can try is to power off the phone, plug it up to the charger and see if it charges overnight, however I have a sneaking suspicion that the battery is toast.
Kilogrm, I've left it charging overnight and and am able to carry it around all day without issue doing the occasional glance at the time, but if I try to do anything of significance I will end up at a black screen again, so I'm rather inclined to believe it isn't the battery. I do have a replacement battery that I bought a while back that I never got around to installing....so I could try that.
I'm guessing that if I'm going to install a stock ROM I might as well just LGNPST back to stock....thoughts?
Ok well I used LGNPST to go back to JellyBean Stock, and I got the exact same behavior. I'm thinking it might be a hardware problem, but not sure what.
Well, it was definitely a hardware problem. I opened up the phone and took a look at the rigid-flex board that LG used to connect to the micro-usb jack and I noticed that one of the footprints was missing a component. I quick look around showed that a small(looked like 0402 size) diode had somehow sheared off at the solder joint and was rolling around in the case. I soldered it back on, replaced the battery with the new one I had gotten and closed the phone up. Everything works like a charm again. Now I just have to go back through the root/freeg/rom process again because I flashed all the way back to at&t ROM.
Remove the back cover, remove tiny screws on bottom and pop the cover off. There are another two tiny screws holding the battery connector on the pcb. Unscrew the tiny screws and unplug the battery, then plug in to power. Then unplug, plug battery in and plug power in. Let it charge. This added 8 extra hours on my battery from 15 hours to 24 hours. It appears to be going up too if u drain it to 0 dead and charge to 100 and unplug. Do it over and over again forever and the battery will slowly repair the damage.
Just this morning, I woke up and saw that my LG Zero H650E was rebooting. This had happened before and I fixed it on multiple occassions by waiting till the battery ran out, and then charged it before turning the phone on. This booted my phone normally. I thought this most recent happening this morning was another one of these occassions. Therefore, I just left it on my desk to drain. About 3 hours later, it had turned off after draining so I went ahead and charged it to about 15% and then held down the power button for around 3 seconds and it booted. But after 10 minutes it still had not finished booting and I found it most unusual so I tried to boot it into factory data reset mode(I am using stock ROM), and attempted to hard reset it because I could not seem to do anything else, like download mode(power+volume up, then plug into computer) or letting it drain to 0% again and boot. When I booted it into factory reset mode, I selected "Yes", then "Yes" again. It showed the LG logo screen, with the words "Powered by Android" at the bottom and then the green Android with a blue shape in front and a gear behind appeared. After 1 second it disappeared and went back to the aforementioned LG logo screen and proceeds to do absolutely nothing. No matter how many times I have tried to factory reset it, this has always happened. I would really appreciate some help.
Thanks