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Hello people, I thought I would inform you all of a much better and effective method to deal with your phone freezing. Many of us are using custom kernels such as nemesis2all's OTB or imnuts peanut butter jelly time in which have a tendency to freeze our phones due to the overclocking/undervolting. Or, we are on JT's new CM7 mtd or Andmer's GB MIUI and our screens will turn off and nothing that we do will turn them back on. The natural reaction to this occurrence is to take the back off the phone and pull the battery out. But, this is not good for it to be abruptly pulled in the midst of supplying power to your phone. Not to mention the severe battery drain that comes along with doing this, as I'm sure many of you have already noticed to be the case. No matter what rom/kernel you are on and no matter how frozen your phone is, if you simply hold both the volume up and volume down buttons and the power button at the same time for about 10 seconds, your phone will do a hard reboot. Problem solved without doing harm or damage to your phone and without excessive battery drain. This method even works for CM7 MTD/GB MIUI MTD. This is not the same thing as the three finger method that you are warned not to do with these roms. This method will lead to overall better battery life and phone life. Not to mention, a lot less frustration.
I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!
And especially helpful if you have a case on
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Good to know. I broke my case by taking it off and on so many times. It's still useable but this will prevent further damage, and save me some time.
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elarson006 said:
I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!
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+1. This is what I use. Just had to do it this morning as a matter of fact.
elarson006 said:
I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!
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Indeed. I never do battery pulls personally.
verizon techs have had me do battery pulls a couple different times lol.
droidstyle said:
verizon techs have had me do battery pulls a couple different times lol.
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Yea, but not while the phone is on and in a frozen state with a steady stream of battery power being supplied to it, I assume. That is very different.
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kidserious said:
Yea, but not while the phone is on and in a frozen state with a steady stream of battery power being supplied to it, I assume. That is very different.
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Power on but not frozen... but I agree its not good to pull battery in frozen state... volume up and power button is what I do in that situation. My SF has only froze two times and that was from overclocking... not very stable over 1200 on the stock rom. Srry hope my last post did not offend, I meant as verizon was dumb for having me pull the battery with power on!
droidstyle said:
Power on but not frozen... but I agree its not good to pull battery in frozen state... volume up and power button is what I do in that situation. My SF has only froze two times and that was from overclocking... not very stable over 1200 on the stock rom. Srry hope my last post did not offend, I meant as verizon was dumb for having me pull the battery with power on!
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No, post was not offensive nor was it was taken that way. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
landshark68 said:
+1. This is what I use. Just had to do it this morning as a matter of fact.
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It's what I use as well, power+both volume buttons does nothing for me, I think technically power+volume up is a soft reboot, but, it works.
I will use this next time... My phone froze up this morning. I thought I was going to have to pull the battery and just as I was tapping the battery out of the phone I saw the bootlogo. When I put the battery back in my /data was gone. Phone would boot, but there was no data partition. It was toast.
Had to Odin back to stock and start all over. My last Titanium Backup is from more than a month ago. I have a Super Manager backup from ~ a week ago. Will give it a shot.
well I decided to mess around with cm7 once I saw that it had 4g.
I probably should have done some more research on the differences between mtd and bml before trying to go back to a bml rom from cm7.....
Now for the first time ever I think I bricked my phone since I can't even get it into download mode to restore with odin.
Just really wanted to see if anyone had any suggestions on something I might be missing before I take it back to sprint and probably have to pay something
Thank you
Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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best way to know is take battery out and hold power + 1, while holding them down plug usb in
HumanXv2 said:
best way to know is take battery out and hold power + 1, while holding them down plug usb in
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This. Also take sdcard out
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Others have had success by popping the battery in and out a few times while attempting to get into download mode. But mostly try no battery, no sd card, connect to computer and try download mode.
Yea I ended up remembering this from way back when I first got the phone, took the battery out for 15 seconds and put it back in and got into download mode and restored the correct tar thsi time not just the modem tar i had....
Thanks for all the quick replies though
b16flybye said:
Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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Wow another "I believe in magical reset buttons" guy..... there's no button if you take it apart it was from leaving the battery out long enough that makes people believe this. Leaving the battery out usually drains the charge and resets the phone somehow....
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Biggoron said:
Wow another "I believe in magical reset buttons" guy..... there's no button if you take it apart it was from leaving the battery out long enough that makes people believe this. Leaving the battery out usually drains the charge and resets the phone somehow....
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No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!
b16flybye said:
Hold the little pin down by the camera for 30 seconds. Cover has to be off to access it. Or try leaving the phone alone for an hour with the battery out, and then use odin, but do it with the battery out. The computer will power the phone for you.
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Lol... I love this... have you ever taken apart ANY epic that had this "button"? I've taken apart more than 50 and still haven't found not 1 button! Please somebody post a picture of this so called button if it is real... not the hole by the camera but the actual button on the board... its not there trust me...
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No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!
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Hahaha that's too funny
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lol at least it gives faith to people who accidently soft brick! XD I use to believe so I'm not even poking fun lololol
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kennyglass123 said:
No, no, no....if you listen, late at night, outside Sprint stores, the wind whispers tales of mythical Epics that have magical buttons that were installed by tiny technical elves. There have been sightings, those that will swear this has resurrected the dead...zombie Epics if you will....fact or fiction...you decide!
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LOL ... LOL ......... That is CLASSIC !
When I saw this thread I was hoping it was a poll.
Hello, android developer here.
The other day my xoom drained all the way to 0% (this happened overnight while I was asleep). I noticed right away because I use the xoom as my alarm clock. I ended up sleeping in that day (doh!)
Anyways, now the darn thing simply wont turn on. I try to soft reset (vol up + power) but nothing happens. I tried plugging it in via usb thinking I could reboot it with adb, but my computer fails to see the device. So its turned off and simply will not turn on. I've even let it charge for 2 days straight (green charge light on device).
Nothing.
What the heck man?
Dumb question.... How long have you held the power button? My Xoom (maybe others?) won't turn on unless I hold the button for 2-3 seconds.
Ive gone up to 60 seconds of button pressing...when it doesnt work one tends to go to extremes lol
I can't believe this, first time I've ever had a device die like this :-/
Did you charge it before you tried to turn it back on? My Milestone tends not to turn on after it drained below zero for like ten minutes until the battery has at least some basic charge again.
Try turning on right 3~4 minutes later putting on a yiur charger
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Zhenech said:
Did you charge it before you tried to turn it back on? My Milestone tends not to turn on after it drained below zero for like ten minutes until the battery has at least some basic charge again.
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Yeah its been charged for 48 hours now, green light on power indicator as well.
It still wont boot. I tell ya its the strangest thing I've seen in a while...
did you try booting in recovery? vol down ±power
zylith said:
did you try booting in recovery? vol down ±power
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Of course. I've tried every combo imaginable.
F this, I'm getting an ipad.
techs1200 said:
Of course. I've tried every combo imaginable.
F this, I'm getting an ipad.
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If you really want the iPad, here's the perfect excuse.
However, if you want to save your Xoom, you might want to check out the Motorola Factory cable from Team Black Hat (Google it). If there was ever a use for this cable, your situation seems to define it. Your Xoom seems to think it's not charged (drained) or can't take a charge, but it sounds more like the former situation. The Factory/Programming cable obviously makes a different electrical connection and makes the Xoom think it's charged...something like that. Check it out.
Also, at least one person made one out of a usb cable and it saved his bacon. You'll have to do a search for his thread...it was a while back.
Good luck, what ever you do.
You need to make or buy the motorola factory cable. That will get you booting.
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Well I did buy an iPad2 a few days ago, but I will definitely be making one of those cables.
Wow, thanks so much! XDA never disappoints
Remove your SD card then restart... Happens to me all the time..
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davidblaine021 said:
Remove your SD card then restart... Happens to me all the time..
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Yes, I have seen this also. Pull out the SD card and the unit comes back to life.
Hey guys,
Well I screwed up and I think the only thing to ask is whether this situation is covered by warranty.
Yesterday I received my new USB OTG cable, because the other one stopped working as soon as you would turn it a little. I tested it with a mouse yesterday and it was running flawlessly. Today, I wanted to test whether it would be able to mount USB sticks, so I took the nearest one and plugged it in. The screen was locked, and after nothing happened I tried to unlock the screen, which wouldn't work. The rest is history and a lot of confusion and anger.
The problem might have been that it was a bootable USB stick containing Ubuntu 13.04, but I'm heavily doubting that this caused a brick. I mean, just plugging a USB stick in cannot brick a tablet? Wubi is an .exe-file an AFAIK Android cannot do anything with this by itself.
I was running PA 3.98/stock kernel and didn't have any program like stickmount installed. I cannot access the bootloader, charging the tablet gives no response at all and when I try to connect it to the computer, it just says that it cannot recognize the device.
Thanks in advance :crying:
Hmm, anyone? I guess I'll ask it in the Ubuntu forums tomorrow too.
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Have you tried holding down the power button for 20-30 seconds to force a reboot? Is it possible it is suffering from the low battery bug? By that I mean is it possible it had a low battery or it thinks it had a low battery and freaked out?
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Have you tried holding down the power button for 20-30 seconds to force a reboot? Is it possible it is suffering from the low battery bug? By that I mean is it possible it had a low battery or it thinks it had a low battery and freaked out?
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Just wow, this really worked.
I feel so retarded now, I already tried holding down power for a while but nothing happened. Guess I was kind of freaking out and couldn't think straight anymore.
Could you tell me more about this low batt bug? Because my tablet was at 1% when it just booted and it was around 40-50 when it gave up.
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Remcotjuuh said:
Just wow, this really worked.
I feel so retarded now, I already tried holding down power for a while but nothing happened. Guess I was kind of freaking out and couldn't think straight anymore.
Could you tell me more about this low batt bug? Because my tablet was at 1% when it just booted and it was around 40-50 when it gave up.
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Glad I could help, sometimes it's the simple stuff that gets overlooked in moments of panic. There is a sticky in this section and other posts as well regarding the battery bug.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2090826
I guess most of the panic came from the coincidence that it shut down at the exact moment of connecting a bootable USB using a new USB OTG cable gehehe.
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Hi !
i have a Galaxy S4 i9505, and yesterday something really strange happened. I left my phone charging overnight on my pc and in themorning it wasnt charged it had only 3% left and after the battery has drained the phone shut down, and then POOF! it won't charge and turn on no sign of life no LED no vibration, nothing. i tried a new battery nothing happened tried different charger and full battery and nothing seems to fix it. so i used a galaxy mini 2 waiting to find a fix for this and the same thing happened to the mini i left it plugged into my pc and the next day no sign of life. it's very strange. just to let ou know that i dont charge my phone on the pc this is the first time i leave it plugged in and when plugged it says that it's charging but somehow it stops and kills the phone . PLEASE help !
ROM and bootloader used?
Current from pc is very low and your mobile might have use more than it due to background process and hence your phone might have slowly discharged instead of being charged.
Try charging from a wall charger for a few minutes and then try to boot it.
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ROM and bootloader used?
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I see no requirement of it -_-
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maxsam4 said:
Current from pc is very low and your mobile might have use more than it due to background process and hence your phone might have slowly discharged instead of being charged.
Try charging from a wall charger for a few minutes and then try to boot it.
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I see no requirement of it -_-
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But also it shouldnt be discharged by backgroung process. It is really wierd. Maybe you can see in the battery stats to find which app is using this and freeze it. Use battery doctor to kill apps when the screen is turned off.
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But also it shouldnt be discharged by backgroung process. It is really wierd. Maybe you can see in the battery stats to find which app is using this and freeze it. Use battery doctor to kill apps when the screen is turned off.
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Hey there . Your reply to the OP doesnt make any sense how can he/she check it on battery stat if the freakin phone cant even turn on. Pls explain. Thanks
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Hi, thanks for the answers but i tried all of that and i can't get even the s4 logo to show nor the LED or any sign of life, i even tried a full battery and nothing happens it's not the power button since it don't show anything when plugged into a charger, the saaame thing happened to the other phone. the ROM is omegadroid and whats a bootloader ?? a phone repair guy told me that he can flash from a port inside the phone that needs some soldering, he told me that it's the way samsung flashes the os when the phone is empty and just got out of the factory is this true ? WTH is going on with this phone :crying: and also could it be some kind of virus that kills android phones just when booting because the phone was okay after unpluging it from the pc the problem happened when the battery drained and it shut down after that it wont turn on ! i'm sure that if i plugged the phone to a charger before the battery drained it would be still running now.
What is the warranty status of the phone?.
The guy is talking about jtag/riff box.
Also try not to use the word POOF" as it means homosexual where I live.There may be ones on the forum that could take offence.
JadeAmineHa said:
Hi, thanks for the answers but i tried all of that and i can't get even the s4 logo to show nor the LED or any sign of life, i even tried a full battery and nothing happens it's not the power button since it don't show anything when plugged into a charger, the saaame thing happened to the other phone. the ROM is omegadroid and whats a bootloader ?? a phone repair guy told me that he can flash from a port inside the phone that needs some soldering, he told me that it's the way samsung flashes the os when the phone is empty and just got out of the factory is this true ? WTH is going on with this phone :crying: and also could it be some kind of virus that kills android phones just when booting because the phone was okay after unpluging it from the pc the problem happened when the battery drained and it shut down after that it wont turn on ! i'm sure that if i plugged the phone to a charger before the battery drained it would be still running now.
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Flashing is possible but I recommend you to go to a Samsung service center (even pay them if they figure out that u r out of warranty) as the process is tooooo risky.
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theunderling said:
What is the warranty status of the phone?.
The guy is talking about jtag/riff box.
Also try not to use the word POOF" as it means homosexual where I live.There may be ones on the forum that could take offence.
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Really dorry for the word haha well thanks for the reply and do you think jtag/riff box is going to fix it ?
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Flashing is possible but I recommend you to go to a Samsung service center (even pay them if they figure out that u r out of warranty) as the process is tooooo risky.
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But i don't have warranty i actually bought it from a black market thats the mistake that i made , and do they fix a phone thats out of warranty if you pay them ?
JadeAmineHa said:
But i don't have warranty i actually bought it from a black market thats the mistake that i made , and do they fix a phone thats out of warranty if you pay them ?
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They do it in my country (India).
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I had a similar problem about six months ago.
I don't know if this will help but I found that by disconnecting the battery, leaving the phone for approx. 10 Min, reconnect the battery, then connect wall charger (but do not attempt to turn on). I found that after about 10 - 20 mins the phone started to charge (really slowly, it took about 8 hours to completely charge). Only after this did I attempt to turn it on and it seems to have been fine since.
Hope this helps.
Riff box did not work :crying: i think it's dead
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Riff box did not work :crying: i think it's dead
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I told you that its too risky.
Why didn't you went to an authorised service center?
Go there now, they might help.
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theunderling said:
Also try not to use the word POOF" as it means homosexual where I live.There may be ones on the forum that could take offence.
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Thanks for clearing that up, I totally thought his phone turned homosexual!
That would of been a very,very strange problem indeed.