Hey,
Got two vibrants at home, both are running ICS, one of them started to random reboot, It sometimes happens once a day and sometimes every 10 minutes :-( Most of the times it happens during a phone call.
Now when it does happen, it just get stuck with the loading circular icon (asterisk) , if i take the battery out and reinsert it does not help, only way to snap out of it is plug it to a charger, wait for the charging battery icon and then power on the phone.
I tried three different ICS ROMs and it happens on all of them.
Any ideas ?
What boot loader (Froyo or GB), and kernel are you running? You probably should Odin back to JFD and start fresh to see if that helps.
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About 20 minutes ago my phone recently shut down, and repeatedly starts up for 2 seconds (to the sgh-t959d screen) then shuts down again and does it immediately after. I've taken the battery out, i've plugged it into the computer but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it and the screen goes to the charging battery for 2 seconds then shuts off and does it again repeatedly. I'm currently running a 2.2 froyo firmware, the phone is about 2 months old and this happened out of nowhere I haven't downloaded any apps or anything onto the phone recently, it seems about 70% charged and I do not know what to do, if anyone has any advice for me please reply and help. This phone is not rooted and is 100% stock I have done nothing to it.
I've also tried going into download mode but it goes onto it for a second then restarts the phone.
fergilla said:
About 20 minutes ago my phone recently shut down, and repeatedly starts up for 2 seconds (to the sgh-t959d screen) then shuts down again and does it immediately after. I've taken the battery out, i've plugged it into the computer but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it and the screen goes to the charging battery for 2 seconds then shuts off and does it again repeatedly. I'm currently running a 2.2 froyo firmware, the phone is about 2 months old and this happened out of nowhere I haven't downloaded any apps or anything onto the phone recently, it seems about 70% charged and I do not know what to do, if anyone has any advice for me please reply and help. This phone is not rooted and is 100% stock I have done nothing to it.
I've also tried going into download mode but it goes onto it for a second then restarts the phone.
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How are you running 2.2 if the phone is unrooted/stock? Did you mean 2.1?
Can you plug it into a wall without the battery in and boot it?
Perhaps a hardware issue?
EDIT: just noticed the phone wont boot without a battery in. Maybe your battery **** the bed? Do you have a verizon store nearby? I would stop in and have them put in a spare battery quick to see if that solves the problem..
Well not completely stock, it's unrooted though.
No I can't run the phone without the battery by plugging it in.
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Sounds like you dont have a fascinate, you should mention that... have you tried download mode? Pull batt, hold vol down, plug in usb
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unrooted, fully bloated (for now) Fascinate
I was running this custom rom beautifully fine for over a year now since I got my phone.
Recently I've had so many problems. My phone just randomly shutdowns down and it's very hard to get it to boot up again. If i hold down the power nothing happens or I just get 1 vibration. Taking the battery in and out doesn't do anything. I left it for 5 minutes out and put battery back in it just vibrates a little (samsung logo apepars for a second) and nothing happens, even when I hold power button. Can't get into download mode either.
I tried 2 different batteries too.
Really not sure what to do. I tried a factory reset a whilst back and i thought everything was okay but now it just won't even boot up.
Whenevr it does decide to turn on it just dies after a random period of time.
thrutheeyes said:
I was running this custom rom beautifully fine for over a year now since I got my phone.
Recently I've had so many problems. My phone just randomly shutdowns down and it's very hard to get it to boot up again. If i hold down the power nothing happens or I just get 1 vibration. Taking the battery in and out doesn't do anything. I left it for 5 minutes out and put battery back in it just vibrates a little (samsung logo apepars for a second) and nothing happens, even when I hold power button. Can't get into download mode either.
I tried 2 different batteries too.
Really not sure what to do. I tried a factory reset a whilst back and i thought everything was okay but now it just won't even boot up.
Whenevr it does decide to turn on it just dies after a random period of time.
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Hi mate ,
There have been some issues with the power button , check it and see if is working ok , try to cleaned with some contact cleaner ( no battery, watch out the screen) of have it check in a service shop ...should be cheap
thrutheeyes said:
I was running this custom rom beautifully fine for over a year now since I got my phone.
Recently I've had so many problems. My phone just randomly shutdowns down and it's very hard to get it to boot up again. If i hold down the power nothing happens or I just get 1 vibration. Taking the battery in and out doesn't do anything. I left it for 5 minutes out and put battery back in it just vibrates a little (samsung logo apepars for a second) and nothing happens, even when I hold power button. Can't get into download mode either.
I tried 2 different batteries too.
Really not sure what to do. I tried a factory reset a whilst back and i thought everything was okay but now it just won't even boot up.
Whenevr it does decide to turn on it just dies after a random period of time.
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emm.. your description is confusing a bit... does your phone boots, or not?
If not, call the Samsung service centre (if I'm right, one is in Milton Keynes even, if not, there is another one in Derby).
If it does: try factory wipe and pure stock reflash.
I give up any advice would be very appreciated.
My S4 will just randomly go dark and appears to be powered off 2 to 3 times per day (All Bluetooth and WiFi show disconnected). It seems to be random when this happens. I have tried everything form flashing back to 4.2 stock (odin) to new kernels, modems and it just doesn't matter. I have also tried TW Roms, GE Roms, and AOSP roms still the same random lock ups. At first I though it was a app but even with clean install it will happen, but it appears to be less frequent.
Also the phone will not power on unless I do one of 2 things, Plug it into a power source, or take out the battery and hold the power button down for a few seconds with the battery removed. I can hold the power button down for 5 minutes and it will do nothing with the battery installed.
I don't' have any experience with a crash loggers but any advice would be great. I'm worried this is something psychically wrong with the device.
Thanks
Hi, so my phone decided to stop working all of a sudden.
I was just doing things on my pc when I heard my phone rebooting, after I had recenly plugged it in.
It's running the latest stock ROM and not rooted. When I try switch it on it shows the Samsung Logo and on some occations some pixels create a fuzzy area underneath the logo text and at the bottom of the screen, it then switches off and after a while tries to boot again. When I try charge the phone it goes to the battery icon with the loading circle but nothing moves and yet again some of the pixles of the battery icon become distorted and then it switches off and tries again(also it vibrates twice before showing the battery icon). I can boot into Dowload mode and my PC recognises the phone(as well as odin) but I can't boot into recovery, or Safe Mode for that matter. I can remove the battery when in dowload mode and the phone remains on but I need the battery inserted to start up anything. I've only had my phone for two months now. Maybe I could be moisture from my shower earlier, I'll leave my phone in a bowl of rice overnight to see if that does anything.
Please try help me fix my problem. I've been looking for a solution all night.
Also due to me being overseas I can't format my phone as I'll lose my WhatsApp validation and all the pictures I've taken so far will be lost.
Thanks in advance.
It's not a software problem so you don't need to format.
My guess would be that you need a new battery.
Lennyz1988 said:
It's not a software problem so you don't need to format.
My guess would be that you need a new battery.
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The battery isn't even swollen though?
I just tried starting up the phone by turning it on, then plugging in the cable and hitting the battery out but it still didn't boot.
Unfortunately I'm far away from a big city so I can't get another battery to test it to be absolutely sure though.
Update:
I just tried booting it again and it got to the other Samsung screen where the LED is Blue and the Logo flashes blue behind it(Only got here once, hasn't gotten this far again yet). I left it for a bit but it just got stuck there and there was the same distorted pixels like in any other type of screen I get to also the logo stopped flashing when I tapped the screen and pressed the home button(this is when the distorted pictures started again).
Here is an attached Image of the flickering part of the screen. It gets stuck on this screen and flickers at the bottom and just underneath the Logo and eventually turns off.
No one know the problem?
BaD_RoBoTs said:
No one know the problem?
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It's a hardware failure. Let's hope it's your battery even though it's not swollen.
Lennyz1988 said:
It's a hardware failure. Let's hope it's your battery even though it's not swollen.
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I tried a new battery today and it had exactly the same problems
So by some miracle it booted all the way to the lock screen and then rebooted from there right back to the lock screen again and I unlocked it and the home screen was fine and the phone seemed to function for a few seconds then it restarted and then got stuck at the Samsung logo again, I did manage to see that there was 17% Battery left so It has enough power to boot it. So I dunno what the hell could be causing it. It's such a weird problem I have no idea of how to fix it(within the warranty that is). I forgot to mention that the screen has 3 stress fracture cracks on the screen so somehow I think it is bending in my pocket, so that might be a reason why it's acting so weirdly.
I also noticed that if I leave the battery out for a decent amount of time and try boot the phone up it boots up for about 20 seconds and then reboots again into a bootloop again. Also the battery percentage is at 0% apon boot, by this stage I've plugged it into my PC to try pull files off of it(Which I managed to get some files off).
So, I have a Samsung SM-T230NU. When I tried to power it on, it flashed for a split second the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 logo and then went blank. I figured it was out of juice, so I plugged it in and let it charge for an hour or so.
When I came back, it was flashing and going dark.
I tried a different cable. As soon as power was applied, it flashed and went dark again.
Now, the boot logo is showing for an even briefer amount of time.
I am suspecting the battery or USB port. I don't have parts readily available to swap, however.
It may be worth adding, when I plug in the device, without touching any buttons, the screen starts flashing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 boot logo. I would guess a stuck power button, but the power button travels freely. When I unplug the tablet from the computer, the flashing stops.
Trying to boot it with power + volume up garners no response from the device.
Any ideas?
Having same issue here
Tried hard reset, no dice.
Tried opening the back to see if I can identify some loose connection, didn't see anything funny. I am not an electrician.
My sister's having the same issue with her T230NU. It still boots (it'll boot to the Samsung splash, but then it flashes off the screen in half a second; this repeats every 7 seconds), but only if it's plugged directly to the wall charger. She let it sit overnight to charge, and it's still got this issue. I'm pretty sure her battery was drained when the issue started occurring last night, but it doesn't look like the battery has charged much (if at all) since then.