I recently upgraded my phone to Froyo. Shortly I decided to root my new 2.2 captivate. Everything was going fine until today. I wanted to see if I could sideload apps. So I downloaded sideload wonder machine. When i went to try to use it, my phone started acting laggy. Next, the time in the upper right corner went away. At first, I was running it on debug and my phone wasnt mounted. I decided to unmount it but when i did My phone stopped working completely. So i decided to turn it off. When i turned it back on it went to the att screen and the galaxy s screen. Then my phone started vibrating. Now its pulsing! it vibrates in intervals of about 10-15 seconds. After the galaxy screen the screen goes black but the bottom four keys stay lit up. and it continues to pulse. Ive tried to pull out the battery give it a min n put it back on. ive tried to get to the reboot menu but wont let me get to it. Any suggestions? Is it bricked? thanks in advance
sorry for the confusion. I had an app saved on my internal sd card, so i mounted my phone to get it from phone to pc. Thats when it started acting sluggish, so i tried unmount and it froze the phone.
sounds like you soft bricked it. do a search, there are a few post that will help get you going again.
thank you. will do
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum (first post), I've owned my Continuum for a few months now happily with no problems. I actually love the phone! But recently I ran into a pretty big problem...
Let me give you a little background on my phone first, I have used SuperOneClick on it, to grant super user permissions, I've used the program to grant me access to the phone tethering apps that are out (currently using Open Garden), and the AdFree app in the market. I havn't used anything else in regards to 'hacking' my phone so I'm a bit confused as to why I'm getting trouble.
Anyways here's my problem, lol! Well the other day I turned off my phone and tried turning it back on and I would get a grey battery with the spinning disk, and it wouldn't turn on :\! I tried holding all the buttons, for over 10 seconds, no avail. It still turned on to the battery and nothing. I tried taking the battery out for a whiiiile and nothing. Eventually I plugged in my phone to the wall and it magically worked. Actually that's the only way I've been able to get my phone to turn on lately. It works fine once it's on but every time I turn it off the same thing happens .
So that's truly why I'm here... Is my phone 'bricked', or are these some symptoms of being 'bricked'? Are there any fixxes I can go about taking to you know...fix the problem ?
Any help would be Greatly appreciated,
Thanks everyone,
-Matt
Oops, I forgot to mention that my phone has been acting strange sometimes in the sense that I plug it into the wall and the 'Mass Storage/ Media player' option comes up, even though it's not plugged into the computer, just into the wall.
Pretty strange huh?
Anyways thanks again everyone who helps!!!
Can you try taking out the battery, then putting it back in...
Then hold down the volume down key as you power it back on?
I would try un-rooting and doing a factory reset... that should eliminate software issues... If you're still having issues then take it to VZW and let them give you a new one.
This is not "bricking"... If a phone is "bricked", it does nothing, absolutely nothing, and the only way to make it useful is to use it to build something.
Sure, right now it says "Downloading... Do not turn off Target!!!".
Thanks for letting me know it's not bricked, that's a little reassuring .
After a while I just took out the battery and stuck it back in and attempted to turn on the phone the usual way, and it turned on just fine. I'm guessing it's fixed and hopefully it won't do that again.
Ive got cyanogen 7.1.0 on my emmc. it was getting a little buggy so i decided to format data,cache,system and boot in mounts and storage. i did that then i rebooted it. the cynogen7 logo came up and with the little neon blue writing under it that says "loading...". so then when it came time for the animated cyanogen logo thing to show up, it doesn't. the screen just stays blank but its still on cause the screen back light was on. so i held down the power button till it turned off and turned it on again. the same thing happened only this time i let it stay on. about 10 mins later i go to check it and its powered off. i try turning it on but it doesn't power up. please help me out.
EDIT: Found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949699 and it fixed my nook.
This is the same thing that is happening for me. I have actually purchased a new Tablet, and want to just put the normal Nook OS back on the device so I can give it to my parents as an eReader for X-Mas.
Please help!!
Bump....Can anyone help me out with this?
Read the 1st post again bud.....he said he fixed his and gave a link.
It seems to have a mind of it's own. It will just randomly go to a black screen and the only way to get it back is to pull the battery, but sometimes I need to plug it in wait for it to vibrate, then go into recovery wipe cache to get it to reboot.
I have re-flashed to stock ROM with ODIN and not installed any apps and it still happens, but is Random. Also rebooting the phone it sometimes will go to the black screen. I have pulled the MicroSD card out too, just incase.
I'm thinking defective phone ... Of course I am frustrated right now and might be over looking something. Anyone have any thoughts? If not I guess I will have to call AT&T to get another phone
Thanks,
Rob
UPDATE**
Through a little bit of testing it seems like this happens every time I install and configure Swiftkey. If I try to reboot the phone goes to the black screen and freezes. I can get the phone up by wiping the cache, remove swiftkey and I can restart over and over without any problems. Going to leave it alone without Swiftkey installed and see if that makes a difference.
Weird ....
When you mention the black screen, does it just say Samsung with an unlocked 'lock' below it?
Trying to figure out what my phone is doing right now, nothing from recovery seems to be helping...
Well I just got myself in a really weird situation. I will try to be as descriptive as possible about what I did wrong. My Blade was flashed with "Eco CM7 - A minimalist cm7 build" and it was working just fine until today I tried to install INT2EXTV2+ The flashing hanged at the point where it was asking me if I wanted SWAP or not and nothing would work even if I kept choosing NO! Ever since then I tried to install that my phone will just not turn on if I push the power button. BUT, if I connect the USB cable and hold the power button, the phone will power on.
I have tried formating and re installing the rom I was using and also I tried reflashing Via windows with TPT which worked just fine but even if I did so, the problem still remains. As soon as I unplug the usb the phone goes off as if the battery is dead, even if the indicator shows the battery is full. Also if I let it boot, as soon as the screen shows a glimpse of the android UI, the phone reboots.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do and what I did?
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After leaving it for a whole day (14 hours) to rest with the battery off and then putting the battery back on and trying to turn it on, it did. I am glad it is still alive. I still do not get what happened to it.
Ok, I went to take a picture and it freaked the **** out. Now I rooted my phone when I got it, I have done nothing else other then Xposed modules and since it start acting up I've literally done nothing else. I only get the screen that says custom and then blah nothing else. I swapped battery (got another battery from samsung directly) and I have no idea wtf to do. Don't recommened ****ing flashing **** or whatever because I have everything stock. This should not happened. I wiped dalvik cache and cache and it was within recovery but my phone can't boot, I removed SD card, sim card and sometimes it'll boot be on for a couple minutes and bam same issue.... WHAT THE FLYING **** CAN I DO? I need this phone ASAP.... I'm this close to just tossing it over the edge and getting a new one.... it's a flying piece of **** and **** samsung!
You might have to start from scratch and determine if it's a hardware issue. Do you know what firmware you're on? Also back everything up because if you start from scratch, we'll that's the what you'll have.
Thanks, I managed to get it on again, made some calls uninstall some apps, but then it ****ing freaked out again. I have the firmware that was on when it was released. I got the first batch of 32gb's S4's haven't changed the firmware since... to prevent this type of ****. UGH! So after a phone call my phone just bleeped again and ****ed up. So I don't understand anything anymore.
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Thanks, I managed to get it on again, made some calls uninstall some apps, but then it ****ing freaked out again. I have the firmware that was on when it was released. I got the first batch of 32gb's S4's haven't changed the firmware since... to prevent this type of ****. UGH! So after a phone call my phone just bleeped again and ****ed up. So I don't understand anything anymore.
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So you used odin to flash mdl firmware?
I've done nothing in regards to flashing. I have not connected my phone to my computer. I've done nothing at all. other then keep trying to turn it on over and over again.
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I've done nothing in regards to flashing. I have not connected my phone to my computer. I've done nothing at all.
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Well you might have to to see if it's a hardware issue. I would suggest flashing the firmware you're currently on through Odin
How am I supposed to do that if the phone just won't be recognized by anything? it's ****ing dead now. It shows me the Samsung Custom lock and logo and then nothing. I press the power button and nothing, I have to remove the batter and put it back in to see that screen.
Ok now it randomly is charging and now I can turn it on again, no problem, after I forcefully press the power button and some other random things... could I have an issue wiht my power button staying pressed? why would it do that? how can I fix this? I'm willing to open it up. I'm currently doing a backup in titanium backup and so far it seems ok. Recieved a phone call, phone is charging and everything is ok. how do I boot it into safe mode?
http://m.samsung.com/us/support/faq/FAQ00052827/62062/SGH-I337ZWAATT
Thanks, I believe the cause was a stuck power button.