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[HOW TO] Frozen Tab? (Works with ALL Tabs!!!!)

I haven't seen this posted, if it was, i apologize in advance...
My Galaxy Tab is the Sprint Tab. I am not sure if this method works for other carrier's Tabs. *ALL TABS HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED*
If your Tab freezes, you can power the Tab down by holding in the POWER Button for 8-10 seconds or unit you see the screen turn off.
Personally, like any computer or high-tech device, i usually like to wait at least 10-15 seconds before powering such device back up.
After the device has been OFF for 10-15 seconds, hold the POWER button in for 3 seconds or until your device turns ON.
AGAIN, if Galaxy Tab freezes (ALL TABS CONFIRMED):
1) Hold POWER button in for 8-10 Seconds, or until powered OFF
2) Leave Unit OFF 10-15 seconds.
3) Hold POWER button in for 3 seconds, or until powered ON
4) Enjoy
If you are using a Verizon Tab or a GSM Tab (AT&T, T-Mobile, or Euro) and attempt this method, please say so and i will edit the post.
Thanks in advance!
*EDIT*
It has been confirmed that ALL Galaxy Tabs, CDMA & GSM (AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Euros), can use this method to unfreeze.

Same with Euro tabs.

peare said:
Same with Euro tabs.
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thanks for the info!

Thanks for the info, this worked like a charm!!
Also, just an FYI: The only reason they advise to wait to power up a PC 10-15 seconds after powering it down in this fashion is to give the hard drive a chance to stop spinning. Since the Tab doesn't have a hard drive, you should be good.
Again, thanks for the info! I thought I had to let the battery die or something.

Funny you mention this... the *DAY* i bought my tab, a few hours after tinkering with it, it froze (i was trying to power it down or something).
Anyway, it froze and i had no clue how to fix it.
I think i searched and found the hold Power button trick for as long as mentioned above.
So i can confirm this works with the BELL Galaxy Tab as well.

There is another method for really problematic Tabs:-
1. Connect the Tab to a Mains (not PC USB) power source.
2. Press & Hold the Power On button for 30 seconds AND touch & Hold the Middle of the Tab's screen. This will then bring up a menu asking if you wish to Reboot.
3. A Battery Charging Indicator will appear with a progress bleep sound at the bottom of the Tab.
4. Detach the Power cord and press On and then Off again... It should now reboot.

Asori said:
Thanks for the info, this worked like a charm!!
Also, just an FYI: The only reason they advise to wait to power up a PC 10-15 seconds after powering it down in this fashion is to give the hard drive a chance to stop spinning. Since the Tab doesn't have a hard drive, you should be good.
Again, thanks for the info! I thought I had to let the battery die or something.
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thats not entirely true its also to let most of the little caps on the mobo discharge all the way

This is just a 'standard hard reset' on lot of android device as a dedicated button on your desktop PC if it has... Not a Tab exclusive feature. Long press power button reset Galaxy S, HTC Legend, Hero etc... (I had...)
If you are on power line it will just switch off but if just on accu. then will restart as well.
Bye,

Beards said:
There is another method for really problematic Tabs:-
1. Connect the Tab to a Mains (not PC USB) power source.
2. Press & Hold the Power On button for 30 seconds AND touch & Hold the Middle of the Tab's screen. This will then bring up a menu asking if you wish to Reboot.
3. A Battery Charging Indicator will appear with a progress bleep sound at the bottom of the Tab.
4. Detach the Power cord and press On and then Off again... It should now reboot.
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Thanks for that. On every device I've had I have at some stage had to do a 'battery pull' (ouch!) with the screen still on. As the SGT battery cannot be pulled this is probably the best way.

vs2 said:
Thanks for that. On every device I've had I have at some stage had to do a 'battery pull' (ouch!) with the screen still on. As the SGT battery cannot be pulled this is probably the best way.
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No problem... If you think it's enough to deserve a vote of Thanks, please see the 'P.S.' in my Sig.

Late to see this thread as i did tried already post # one when my Smart(Philippine) SGT P1000 freezes this morning while testing the Lookout Mob Sec locator.
Thanks both of you(post #1 and 6)
Rgds,
jojo

xda2jojo said:
Late to see this thread as i did tried already post # one when my Smart(Philippine) SGT P1000 freezes this morning while testing the Lookout Mob Sec locator.
Thanks both of you(post #1 and 6)
Rgds,
jojo
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Than for the vote, your thanks has earned another £10 to charity.

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your thanks has earned another £10 to charity.
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...really? then another thanks for you.
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...really? then another thanks for you.
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Oh dear... I had better stop saying Thank You then, or else my Nurses will have a field-day invading my wallet...
Appreciated.

Gingerbread - Lost hboot/recovery?

Well i flashed the rooted version of the new OTA gingerbread update and it worked great and has been running flawless, but today i attempted to boot into recovery by holding the volume down + power and something crazy happened and continues to happen.
When i hold the volume down+power it like 'insta boots' my phone, literally goes from turned off to fully up and booted in like 3 seconds, almost as if my phone was in hibernation mode and was just kinda waking it up... Normally it would take about 25-30 seconds to start, first showing the white HTC screen and then the 4G boot logo for about 10 seconds, and then start to load up.. but when i hold down the volume down and power it just "starts" no boot screens or anything, just from off to on in no exaggeration like 3 seconds and it doesn't take me into the hboot screen anymore to get into recovery...
Has this happened to anyone else? what the hell is going on?
I have noticed this same things happens even if i just hit the power button without holding volume down, almost as if when i turn my phone off(hold power off and then select shut phone off from the menu that pops up), it's not actually turning off and just kinda hibernating, when i choose the restart phone button it takes about 15 seconds to actually shut off, and then it runs through all the boot screens like the white htc EVO 4G screen for about 15 seconds, then the Sprint 4G screen with the sound for about 15 seconds, but when i select 'shut phone down' it jsut instantly cuts the screen to black.. no 'shutting phone down' screen that shows up like when i choose the restart phone option

pulazki said:
Well i flashed the rooted version of the new OTA gingerbread update and it worked great and has been running flawless, but today i attempted to boot into recovery by holding the volume down + power and something crazy happened and continues to happen.
When i hold the volume down+power it like 'insta boots' my phone, literally goes from turned off to fully up and booted in like 3 seconds, almost as if my phone was in hibernation mode and was just kinda waking it up... Normally it would take about 25-30 seconds to start, first showing the white HTC screen and then the 4G boot logo for about 10 seconds, and then start to load up.. but when i hold down the volume down and power it just "starts" no boot screens or anything, just from off to on in no exaggeration like 3 seconds and it doesn't take me into the hboot screen anymore to get into recovery...
Has this happened to anyone else? what the hell is going on?
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Turn off fastboot in settings> applications.
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Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol

pulazki said:
Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol
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You betcha!
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pulazki said:
Hehe, man do i feel stupid now! I was freaking out like WHAT THE HELL MAN!
thank you lolol
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Don't feel stupid. It's a new feature in GB.
I ALMOST want to keep it on, but then I have this fear of needing to get to Hboot or recovery...
It is wicked how fast it boots up, though, huh??

you can also just choose reboot and push power and vol down at the right time and it works.

HipKat said:
Don't feel stupid. It's a new feature in GB.
I ALMOST want to keep it on, but then I have this fear of needing to get to Hboot or recovery...
It is wicked how fast it boots up, though, huh??
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Look up the quick boot app
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[GUIDE] Recovery options for "bricked" phone.

The dreaded brick, perhaps one of the more overused terms when it comes to the galaxy s. By all accounts the SGS is one of the most difficult phones to actually brick.
As Shantzu put it:
Bricked: The term "bricking" should only be used in the case where you get your phone in a state where it is inoperable AND you can not in any way repair it yourself.
In many cases your phone is not bricked. Common uses of the phrase bricked often include:
1. Boot looping
Try option a, b or c​2. Not going past SGS logo
Try option a, b, or c​3. BSOD (Black Screen Of Death) logo
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Try option a or b​4. Error Message: "Can't mount /dev/block/stl10 (invalid Argument)"
Try option d​
In most circumstances your phone is still recoverable. Have a look below to see what you can do.
Options:
a. If you have the 3 button combo available then try the the download mode combo (Volume Down + Home + Power). If the phone is displaying the BSOD logo and you hold this combo for 10 seconds or so, with the USB plug in, you might just be able to get it into download mode (if you're lucky). If you get the charge screen, turn off phone and try again without USB plug in.
b. You can make this or buy one on ebay. It will set you back up to $10. Once you have the jig, have the phone off, plug it in and it should boot into download mode.
c. Use android debug bridge. There is a useful guide on how to get it working and how to use it to put phone in download mode here. This will only work if your PC is registering the phone as plugged in.
d. Use TechKidTarek's method here to restore correct booting.​
If the above options do work, then what you need to do next is get odin up and running and flash with an appropriate firmware. There are a lot of straight forward guides out there if you don't know how to do this properly (which might be how you bricked your phone in the first place).
I suggest you follow one such as this very closely. And, for the love of android, do not interrupt the flash process. This is the most likely way to make a $500 paperweight.
When all else fails, you may have to send it to samsung repair.
Last of all, good luck.

Excellent, important guide to deal with basic problems. Should be stickied.

Excellent help

yes, should be made a stickie but
a. If you have the 3 button combo available then try the the download mode combo (Volume Down + Home + Power). If the phone is displaying the CE logo and you hold this combo for 10 seconds or so, with the USB plug in, you might just be able to get it into download mode (if you're lucky).
maybe no usb connection... sometimes it goes wrong and it's trying to show the recharging battery or looping

KiRAdot47 said:
maybe no usb connection... sometimes it goes wrong and it's trying to show the recharging battery or looping
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Sure. In my personal experience it works with USB when it has CE logo. But i will amend it to suit all circumstances.
Thanks

Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.

DangerDwayne said:
Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.
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Now that's one I haven't heard before. I will test it myself first and then if it works for me I will put it up to see if other people have luck. Thanks a heap for this.

DangerDwayne said:
Another good trick to get into Download Mode is to pull the battery, hold in the two volume buttons and reinsert the battery. This may need the phone to be connected to the computer though.
Spent a month thinking mines was well and truly bricked as nothing else worked, and tried this randomly one day after work.
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Tried several times but could not replicate (note: my phone is not currently bricked). Tested with USB in and out. Cannot replicate the response. Perhaps you were just really lucky?
Maybe others might have some luck?

Thanks for the info although I know the repair options by heart already. A while ago I tried to brick my 'old' S1, to see if I could fix it again, just for the fun of it (I've done worse when bored). I assumed it would brick by pulling the battery while flashing but it just wouldn't work. I bet the S2 is just as tough. Not going to try it though (yet)...

This could prove useful sometime... But I hope I won't need it

Thanks ... very usefull guide

Good guide. Congrats !

nice. been looking for this.

noted, thanks for the info

helped,thx

The info here saved my wife's phone, and I expect out marriage as well - she had one of those SGSes where you can neither enter recovery nor download, and I stupidly assumed you could :/ ...and semi-bricked the phone during superoneclick root (stuck in a boootloop on the S logo).
Anyway, info from here allowed me to first restore the three keys combo, and then flash Darky's. Thanks, guys!
ciii.blogspot.com - leave a comment if you like 'em

Thanks! Saved my phone a couple times now!

I have the BSOD and NONE of the methods presented in this thread have worked so far.
Any other ideas folks?.............

dr150 said:
I have the BSOD and NONE of the methods presented in this thread have worked so far.
Any other ideas folks?.............
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Did you try the last method? Send to samsung repair.

Really good info here.
I have "semi bricked" my SGS a few times now, and I will agree that it is very hard to kill one of these things
Odin is a life saver - with that and a stock ROM I've always been able to start again after experimenting.

Nexus a power button starting to not work

Had this phone for over a year now, power button has started to not function, a in sometimes it will work other times it wont and I can't turn my screen on. .
Is therea way I can wake my phone up with a different button . Btw I'm not rooted
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italia0101 said:
Had this phone for over a year now, power button has started to not function, a in sometimes it will work other times it wont and I can't turn my screen on. .
Is therea way I can wake my phone up with a different button . Btw I'm not rooted
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if your on ics, android 4.0.3, you can go to the main phone settings, security, and turn off the lockscreen. now youll be able to wake the device with the volume keys. other than that, you will need root. you can always get your phone serviced too. btw, my power button has been dead since august. but with root, my ns is fully functional and set up to be used without a power button.

If I root . Is it just a certain ROM that will do it or an app
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italia0101 said:
If I root . Is it just a certain ROM that will do it or an app
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lots of apps out there thatll do it, but they all need root. i use the lockscreen widget and the button remapper app. i remapped my search button to function as the power button(menu/screenshot and all) but it doesnt wake the device. i turned off my lockscreen and use the volume button to wake.

My power button died in September. But with widgetlocker, I was able to keep my lock screen and still be able to wake it. This does not require root so its a quick fix. However, I also suggest re mapping your search button to power off so you can turn it off. This step does require root but its entirely worth rooting for.
Hope this helps
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baolongn said:
My power button died in September. But with widgetlocker, I was able to keep my lock screen and still be able to wake it. This does not require root so its a quick fix. However, I also suggest re mapping your search button to power off so you can turn it off. This step does require root but its entirely worth rooting for.
Hope this helps
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i tried widgetlocker, and it works like advertised. but i was unhappy with it because it keeps the phone from sleeping properly, its always in an awake state.

What about getting into recovery ?
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What about getting into recovery ?
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there are lots of options here.. the root booter app works well, the power menu of the rom im using has it as an option(cm9, long press the search key since its remapped as my power button), also in the terminal emulator all you need to do is type reboot recovery. plus much more..
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Thanks for the help guys.. Guess I'll root and remap.. Also how do you actually turn you phone on if you turn it off
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italia0101 said:
Thanks for the help guys.. Guess I'll root and remap.. Also how do you actually turn you phone on if you turn it off
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lots of times itll power up when plugging in, sometimes i just give it a smack or two on the back. but i always get it to power on within a few seconds. the hardest thing is in the bootloader menu, but a smack to the back near the power button lets me select in the bootloader. sometimes it takes seconds, once it took 5 minutes.

Ok cool thanks again
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I found an unmounting movie on youtube and the power button is very easily reachable after unscrew the external cover.
Mauro

路过...路过...

mr-mauro said:
I found an unmounting movie on youtube and the power button is very easily reachable after unscrew the external cover.
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I don't think it is that easy. Just look at the picture from ifixit: http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/hGCRQAE26jUPAbYT.huge
On the upper left corner you can see the blue and red cable for the vibrator. The white and golden rectangle right above is the power button. There you can see, that it is soldered to the mainboard.
I think you'll have to send your mobile to the Samsung support.

Yes, you're correct. In the unmounting that I looked, I tought to have seen that it was connected with a flexible cable... but isn't
Probably you can find anyway a shop that do it, if you'll find the component.
Mauro

I don't exactly know how it is in italy...
But here in germany Samsung has partners which do the repairs for them. Sometimes you are lucky and they will repair the phone without a bill if it has apparently quarantee (for instance the nexus s can't be much older than a year so it must still have quarantee).
Perhaps you can find out who does the service for Samsung in Italy and then contact those people directly.

recover SM-G900F from boot loop

I downgraded my SM-G900F from Android 4.4.2(PDA G900FXXU1ANJ1, build date 1.10.2014) to Android 4.4.2(PDA G900FXXU1ANCE, build date 31.03.2014) with Odin. According to Odin everything went fine:
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However, if I boot up the phone, I hear the Samsung bling, blue LED turns on for few seconds and after that the boot process seems to be looped as phone vibrates lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys are lit. Screen is off during all this.
My initial idea was to factory-reset the phone(clear /data and /cache partitions), but if I power on the phone with power button while pushing volume up and home buttons, the phone just vibrates for a fraction of a second and that's it. It does not enter into recovery and looks like the phone is off.
When I try to enter into download mode(push power button while home and volume down buttons are pushed down), the phone behaves exactly like in case I simply push the power button which I already described above.
Just for information, if I connect the charger to phone, then the phone vibrates for a fraction of a second and around half a minute the red led is lit(indicates that the device is connected to a charger and it is charging).
Is there a way to unbrick phone if there is no access to recovery and download mode? Please let me know if any additional information is needed.

Try the following: remove the battery. Hold down the buttons and insert battery. Perhaps you have to ask a buddy to help... You should enter download mode....

disobiech said:
Try the following: remove the battery. Hold down the buttons and insert battery. Perhaps you have to ask a buddy to help... You should enter download mode....
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I did that, but unfortunately phone just starts to vibrate for a fraction of second with 8 seconds interval as long as I keep the buttons down. There are no LED lights, no sound and no output to screen.
What I find especially weird is that accessing the download mode earlier, when I posted my initial post, the phone behaved exactly like in case I simply pushed the power button, i.e I heard the Samsung bling, blue LED turned on for few seconds and after that the boot process seemed to be looped as phone vibrated lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys were lit. Or maybe I did not push all three buttons properly down when I tried to access the download mode during my initial post

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I did that, but unfortunately phone just starts to vibrate for a fraction of second with 8 seconds interval as long as I keep the buttons down. There are no LED lights, no sound and no output to screen.
What I find especially weird is that accessing the download mode earlier, when I posted my initial post, the phone behaved exactly like in case I simply pushed the power button, i.e I heard the Samsung bling, blue LED turned on for few seconds and after that the boot process seemed to be looped as phone vibrated lightly with 10 second interval and both back and recents keys were lit. Or maybe I did not push all three buttons properly down when I tried to access the download mode during my initial post
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Perhaps a USB Jig will do. I never had to try one... Search for "Jig Download Mode Samsung Galaxy" on amazon etc...
good luck....!

disobiech said:
Perhaps a USB Jig will do. I never had to try one... Search for "Jig Download Mode Samsung Galaxy" on amazon etc...
good luck....!
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I made an USB jig myself and also bought this one and while both worked with my GT-I9100, they did not work with SM-G900F. If I inserted USB jig to SM-G900F, the phone simply vibrated once and that was it.
Is it possible to JTAG SM-G900F? Use some sort of flasher like ATF-box? Or if one can not access the download mode, then there is nothing to do other than sell the phone into parts?

I finally took my Galaxy S5 to Samsung service and they replaced the front panel In other words phone got the new screen and now it boots up just fine. How to explain this? I would have thought that motherboard, where the flash memory modules are, needs to be replaced.