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hardwarre problem on wing

so i think my wing may be in the process of biting the big one. A few days ago, my wing restarted itself for no reason, i figured it was probably a system error and didnt think twice about it. Now all of a sudden my wing will constantly restart, sometimes in the middle of a call. Sometimes when it does restart the screen will either turn white or fade to white. I reinstalled the original rom to see if it was a software issue and it is still doing it. Also, it doesnt normally do it when it is just sitting there, and sometimes i cant turn it back on. Any ideas?

Make sure the battery isn't loose inside the case... and that all the prongs are making contact.

For the life of me, i cant figure it out. I know it has to have something to do with the phone not getting power. At this point, it wont even fully turn on. Short of taking it apart and checking the solder, does anyone have any ideas?

dcmtnbkr said:
For the life of me, i cant figure it out. I know it has to have something to do with the phone not getting power. At this point, it wont even fully turn on. Short of taking it apart and checking the solder, does anyone have any ideas?
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If you already reflashed the original rom, and it is still doing it, that tells you it is definitely a hardware issue. It does sound like it's losing power which could be a host of things. (loose battery, defective battery, loose solder on board, etc) I would try what duprade said, and check to make sure your battery has a good connection first. If you had a friend that had a wing as well, you could try his to make sure it's not the battery.

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If you already reflashed the original rom, and it is still doing it, that tells you it is definitely a hardware issue. It does sound like it's losing power which could be a host of things. (loose battery, defective battery, loose solder on board, etc) I would try what duprade said, and check to make sure your battery has a good connection first. If you had a friend that had a wing as well, you could try his to make sure it's not the battery.
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Brand new battery (free from tmo to replace the dynapack) Everything on the mainboard looks like it is soldered well. There is an internal watch batter though, could that have something to do with it?

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Brand new battery (free from tmo to replace the dynapack) Everything on the mainboard looks like it is soldered well. There is an internal watch batter though, could that have something to do with it?
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I doubt it. I would guess that's the cmos battery. If that were to go, then your phone wouldn't keep time, but that wouldn't stop your phone from functioning. (I used to work in the service center at a computer store).

maybe its the processor then. sometimes, after it freezes, it artifacts before shutting off

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maybe its the processor then. sometimes, after it freezes, it artifacts before shutting off
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There is the possibility of you overclocking your phone, and it heated up and could have burned or cracked some solder. It might even be overheating and that's why it reboots. At any rate, it def. sounds like hardware though. Sorry man. You could try to resolder the connections on the board just to make sure, but it sounds like you have a paperweight. Is it under warranty or do you have insurance?

only ever oc'd once, for a few minutes, and not very high (like 267 i think) It's on right now on the power cable (this wouldnt work yesterday) I honestly have no fricken clue whats going on with it.
Is it possible for the battery to completely diminish itself without being used for a day? Before it died on me last, it had a full battery, now it is showing 1% (and charging).
By the way, as I stated above, it is a brand new battery sent to me by tmo.

Dang it all! Stupid thing just shut off again... ARG!!!

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Dang it all! Stupid thing just shut off again... ARG!!!
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Hey dcmtnbkr. I seem to have the exact same problem with my Wing. It shuts off for no reason, and it does it absolutely randomly. Sometimes it would work for 3hrs straight no matter what i use it for. And other times it shuts off every 30sec. and it takes 3 to 10 tries to turn it back on(most of the times it would not get past the windows mobile welcome screen). I was gonna flash it with the newer Rom, but i'm afraid that the damn thing might shut off during flashing . So i'm stuck. If you find the way to fix it - please let me know.

actually, i just talked to tmo, and apparantly NOW after i told them I'm cancelling when my contract is up, now they can apparantly cover it under manufacturer warranty (as opposed to the last time i called about a week ago) I would call them even if you didnt buy it from them, tell them you dont remember where you bought it, but it was some company online. These phone's arent that old and you may still be under the manufacturers warranty. Also, i would try and flash it back to the original. These phones are very hard to brick, and i would ask around to see if a powerdown in the middle of an upgrade would do it. I just got mine to reflash without a problem.

my wing rstarts itself wen i jus tap the back of it where the battery cover is but it wont restart everytime. anyone have any ides?

HD2 Freezing Please help

I've had my phone for about 6 months. It was working fine, but lately it's been acting really strange. It freezes on boot and get stuck on the "Stick together" screen.
I've tried a HR, Update and it still persists.
I've wanted to flash a custom rom, but the phone also freezes on the boot loader so i can't even get the flash to follow through.
The one time i got the tmobile's latest flash update to work. It rebooted the phone and then the problem was still there. With it getting stuck on the "Stick together" screen.
A few times when i tried booting the phone, the phone vibrated 7 times and then turned off.
I've looked around the forum and searched for quite some time but haven't found anything. (It's a pretty big forum so i may have missed it). I will continue to keep looking but if anything has a fix or can help me please do.
Thanks!
(Glad to finally be part of this community)
-Raymon

Sounds silly but try these two things.
1. There are some pins on the battery that can be easily bent. Inspect them to make sure they're ok. There are usually other symptoms with this though, such as it won't take a charge or won't start at all, just thought I'd mention it.
2. Try it without the SD card in.

Hey, thanks for the reply!
The phone charges fine with the usb cable. It's at full charge right now actually.
I took out the sim card and sd card when i did the HR and before i put those back in, the phone still froze on boot.
Really not sure what's going on, I'm going to try flashing it again when i get home. But last time i tried, it got stuck at 0% and then my phone froze, was scared it was going to brick, but i don't think it did.
Any other insight would be great, i really hope to resolve this issue.
If any other information is needed, please don't hesitate to ask. I can provide as much as possible to get to a conclusion.
Thanks,
-Raymon.

I got the same problem -- freezes and 7 vibrations before it. I made formatting with mtty (task 29 and task2a), it didn't help.
Anybody knows about 7 vibrations signal? Is there leodiag like blackdiag for HD?

That 7 vibrations HAS to mean something...but i'll be damned if I know what. People in both Leo sections keep saying that their phones vibrate 7 times then shut off, and I don't know what that really means....some investigation is in order!

Just got done talking to t-mobile, my replacement is on it's way, still very weird.
Would love to know the solution to this.

Please tell me can I replace my faulty HD2 from T-Mobile? I bought it in Frys without contract and used it with another provider. I never had a T-Mobile contract.

KOCTA said:
Please tell me can I replace my faulty HD2 from T-Mobile? I bought it in Frys without contract and used it with another provider. I never had a T-Mobile contract.
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same here, bought the phone on Ebay and i live in Albania.
i have the 7 vibrations and then i have to take off the battery , leave the phone cool down so i can use it again for the next 10-20 minutes and then back to the vibrations

I have the same problem, mostly when i used GPS application, the phone reboot then vibrate one on th esplash screen then 7 times and freeze, the solution for this is to remove the battery for 10-20 minutes, pray and put it back, it is very annoying. I have this problem with ROM including the stock ROM.

hd2 freezes on BOOT!!!
try to take out the sim and leave the SD card in you will notice that it will work much better and get past the stick together screen ..mine does the same thing i think i may theSIM card but who know??

Nice suggestion, but totally useless.
I think these 7 vibrations means fault in NAND operation, but didn't find any approves.

I've this problem too.
7 vibration and freeze.
I've try update new radio, task29, new custom rom but nothing better.
Did anyone found any solutions, Please share.
Thank you.

mine got same problem.. i put the hd2 in freezer (without battery) for 3 minutes, then take it out.. put battery.. and my hd2 can start.. but after a while, when the cold is gone.. my hd2 will off it self.. hehehe

Any solutions?
I have the same symptoms, though the vibrations aren't that frequent, as much as stucking is..
I am not in a position to get a replacement, what do I need to fix?
This seems to be a heating problem, the freezer solution seems to work

[Q] problems problems and more problems

Uk HD2
Right heres the story; please bare with me....
managed to drop my hd2 a while back whilst jumping up to help a lady carying a baby who tripped. the phone turned off immediately but came back on once i hasd removed and replaced battery. the phone would then switch off randomly, or at least appeared to. to turn the phone back on I would have to remove the battery, replace and switch it on. which worked for about a fortnight then the screen wouldnt work. I knew the phone was working (if nto the screen)because it was synching with my exchange server. (perhaps it was the screeen all along?) so I put in an insurance claim for the damage and got my phone back however
on receipt the phone wouldnt boot just a white screen. I did tried the phone a number of times and eventually gave up decided to return it. I was just about to send it and tried it one last time and it turned on.
however I still get repeated the phone turning off randomly, with a battery out and repace as the only way to get it working. it will often require this a few times as it freezes on the white screen or occasionly just get the green HTC. sometimes when the phone works it has really really poor performance, no scrolling, video playback is terrible etc.
It appears that during the repair the phone software has been updated to
os 5.2.21913 (21913.5.0.94)
manilla 2.5.20181527
rom 3.14.405.2 (0466) wwe 09/29/10 I cant find a rom on the htc website with this date??
radio 2.15.50.14
protocol 15.42.50.11u
which has few things im not keen on such as a split volume control for system and phone, i cant use the camera as a torch anymore....
I also played around with changing the hspl to 2.08 and trying an andriod build that works fine on the wifes hd2 but occasionally this will regulalry fail to boot on mine?
so can I hve peoples opinion on
1. Is this a continuing phone issue not fixed the first time
2. Was the new rom not installed correctly hance the boots, freezes and bad performance?
3. other ideas as to what the problm is to steer the repair if I go back down that road.
should I just put spl 3.03 back on and send it back
cheers for reading and keep up the great work.
G.

3.14 roms will fall apart stability wise when the spl is NOT , 3.03.0000 or 3.03.hspl
However, for me I'd be straight back to stock and straight back for further repair from what you've said.

Somebody else has the same problem as me. I don't really think there's a fix for it.
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samsamuel said:
3.14 roms will fall apart stability wise when the spl is NOT , 3.03.0000 or 3.03.hspl
However, for me I'd be straight back to stock and straight back for further repair from what you've said.
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Cheers
Yes I think its going back, just going to be difficuilt to convey the issues with the handset.
I didnt imagine it could be the spl due to the lack of boot with the 3.03spl, prior to going to the 2.08hspl, athough it would explain the poor video performance, however I just watched a film for testing purposes without a glitch... just need some consistency.
I think something inside is on its way?
G.

Btw by any chance does the bottom of your HD2 ever get really hot?
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yes very hot. often.
usually using wifi.

Like say the bottom part under the battery plate thing? I think something that's housed there is the problem as I have the same problem and its hot in the same place too.
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thats exactly the place. thouht it ws due to gel case so i take it off for a long browse. i think the wifes gets hot too though, although she has same case...
my n95 + n96 did it too so i thought it ws normal

Yeah that might be a problem with all HD2's but wouldn't know possibly. My HD2 can work perfectly and then I'd just pop it in to my pocket and white screen again. Usually a soft reset (little button under the cover) will do the job but then sometimes it doesn't work for a few days (like it is now).
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when you say wont work for a couple off days you mean you just get the white screen for a few days instead of a full boot? like when I got it from the repairer.
if so what causes it to start working. that's why I think something is not quite right, its like something is not seated correctly.
I get the same blank phone when its in my pocket. we must be hot in the trouser department lol.

Yeah like it'll stay on the white screen for a few days and won't do anything. Then sometimes it'll just work for a day and then go back to the way it was before. It's so weird. Nothing ever happened mine either. Have you ever had any problems with some parts of the screen going blue or anything?
Oh the hot trousers crew, you know what causes hot trousers? Having a big ****. Haha
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i ve the same problem

@ skelly
Ive not had this happen for a few days now so I'm not sure what to do if I send it back they will just say its working fine... so i think I will hang on to it, unless its a problem that s gets worse with time. so has yours got worse over time or is it just random?
I really like the HD2 so I dont want to be without it but dont want to risk it getting worse.
cheers for your help

screen is white? battery is boiling hot? why

phone is 1 week old was running beautiful until battery started to get a little hot. i was like ok nothing to be alarmed about put it in my pocket. does have a silicon case on it.
20 min late take it out and my screen has turned white. so i do all different things to reset it, take battery out for 30 min let it cool down and try again still white screen...
i have never dropped the phone or anything that may have made the lcd crash/loose its pixels.
i know the phone is working like normal as i swipe and went into the camera and volume up its just the screen/lcd WHITE?
so my question is what the hell is going on.
do i change the battery?
do i replace the lcd?
i cant re-set the phone cant see anything on it.
here is a video i found on youtube have the exact same screen and problem
search this in youtube "Galaxy S2 White screen" ..
thanks for any information you can provide.
and please dont say do i have warranty or take it to samsung.

Maybe it overheated the graphics chip, thereby damaging the video output.

it only got slightly warm, it wouldnt have got that hot at all to overheat.

Have you tried connected it to your PC and flashing either a different rom or reflashing the stock rom with ODIN?
That's the first thing I'd try.

Take to service centre dont mess with roms .
jje

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Have you tried connected it to your PC and flashing either a different rom or reflashing the stock rom with ODIN?
That's the first thing I'd try.
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yeah ok ill give that a shot but it will be hard sense i cant see anything on the screen...but i still cant see why it would be the firmware/different rom..

JJEgan said:
Take to service centre dont mess with roms .
jje
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yeah i do not want to open the phone myself or anything i just want to know what happed and what needs to be done before i go to a shop and they rip me off.

My phone freezes :(

Hi, i have a SGH-I337M, with the AOSP 6.0.1 rom with root, since i can remember the phone had been pretty much hot, i didn't care much back then since i use it a lot but recently my phone started to freeze, like the screen freezes and i cant do anything, not even turn it off, so i have to take off the battery let it cool for 20 minutes and start it again, then it works about 10 or 20 minutes and then again it freezes i think it might be related to the heat. Also some few times my screen has turned green and then white and others few times i can see some sort of colored strings.
I'm pretty sure its hardware related but i don't know why it happens and if it can be repaired, do think ill have to change the whole motherboard?
Thanks in advance

Graphics chip may be the problem You shouldn't let your phone overheat like that I think it's the graphics chip (because of the color artifacts) You can try to reinstall ROM (clean installation) and flash another modem&bootloader, or even flash stock ROM. If that doesn't help then your graphics chip is damaged...There is 'repair', by changing motherboard, but it can be very expensive (if you don't find another S4 with broken screen or something else with working motherboard)

I already reinstalled the rom (clean install) and yupp, it doesn't work, the warmest place in my phone is between the sim card and the sd card, so i guess ill have to change my motherboard X_X
Anyway, thank you very much!

Dariane said:
I already reinstalled the rom (clean install) and yupp, it doesn't work, the warmest place in my phone is between the sim card and the sd card, so i guess ill have to change my motherboard X_X
Anyway, thank you very much!
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Have you actually tried other ROMs, or are you just a negativist?

Dariane said:
Hi, i have a SGH-I337M, with the AOSP 6.0.1 rom with root, since i can remember the phone had been pretty much hot, i didn't care much back then since i use it a lot but recently my phone started to freeze, like the screen freezes and i cant do anything, not even turn it off, so i have to take off the battery let it cool for 20 minutes and start it again, then it works about 10 or 20 minutes and then again it freezes i think it might be related to the heat. Also some few times my screen has turned green and then white and others few times i can see some sort of colored strings.
I'm pretty sure its hardware related but i don't know why it happens and if it can be repaired, do think ill have to change the whole motherboard?
Thanks in advance
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You should get CPUTemp Xposed module and stop letting your phone get hot! I usually stop screwing around with mine when the temp gets to like 50/60-something Celsius. And like GDReaper said, don't be a Negative Nancy, be a Positive Paulie and play around with other ROMs!!

my original phone screen did things like that after a pretty heavy drop onto a tiled floor. it maybe a good idea to have a technician diagnose your problem before forking out money for parts that might not fix anything.

Thank you all for your answers, i did tried to flash some other roms without success (I still have the same problem) i am afraid to continue playing with roms since my phone sometimes freeze in the middle of the android configurations when i reboot my phone just after the new installation and i don't want it to freeze in the middle of the installation of a rom.
I think ill go to a technician to see what can be done about it, ill keep you informed what was the problem