Hello, I just read about the issue of the O7 which consists in constant rebooting and SD card failure.
But mine is a little bit different. It started booting every time I plug in the USB cable, even its only AC.
It boots, and then SD failure shows up.
So I shut down, wait some minutes, and restart, but then it started rebooting even without USB cable.
SD failure was getting more frequent, but I got lucky, WP got to work and I did ASAP a reset.
Now its working, it didn’t reboot until now, even whith USB cable.
Anyone an Idea what’s going on???
Ok, it just rebooted + SD failure after 1h charging at PC-USB.
What’s going on?? Now the problem is that I don’t know if LG will repair my phone in warranty, because thanks to Microsoft, I got the OPN and was forced to rebrand to Vodafone because I needed the Wifi theetering.
I know that the flash has nothing to do with the issue, because it’s a known issue.
An Idea was to rebrand to OPN, but if the phone reboots during flash, I’ll be screwed.
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I've got a strange problem with my Tab where it insists on booting into download mode. It says factory mode in the top left rather than odin mode.
The only ways I've found to get around it is either plugging into a computer and flashing something with Odin, either a full rom or just recovery. Then it seems to boot ok. The other way seems quite strange, I just plug in the USB host adapter (without anything plugged into the USB port) and hold the power button till it reboots, then it boots up ok.
The other problem though is that the USB host no longer works when it's booted.
I actually took it back to the shop where I bought it, demonstrated the problem to the shop staff, they sent it away to get look at and by the time the technicians looked at it a week later it was working fine. When they gave it back I even tested the USB host was working and that was fine too. But after a couple days it has started doing it again.
Any ideas what the problem could be? Initially I suspected a faulty plug on the bottom of the unit since that was the only way I could make sense of the USB host adapter making it boot. I'm still thinking it's either that and when they plugged it in to look at it it reconnected a dry joint or something - or that the battery went flat and that reset whatever is causing this.
I'll take it back to the shop again if I have to, but don't fancy another week without my phone, especially if the same thing happens again.
I had a similar problem and I fixed it by letting the battery go flat and doing a factory reset after it re-booted normally.
Hi everybody
I have a problem with my Galaxy S5 (no custom rom, official)
I normally used my phone, I locked it. But, after about 10 mins I tried to unlock my phone, but nothing happens
I tried to reboot, nothing happens. I tried take out and put the battery - nothing happens. So I searched on Google and tried some keys combinations, but nothing happens. My phone has about 80% battery. I tried to charge it in the charger, but nothing is happening (black screen, no notiffication light). Also I tried to put off my SIM and SD Card, but nothing happens
Do you have some skills in it? Can you help me?
Few days ago, I faced the same problem..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2853472
Then I'd to take it to the Samsumg store.. And they return it back in 2 days and said me it was a software problem..
I wanted to do a recovery reset, but i can't boot my phone anymore, also the Kies doesn't see anything, so. Did you really think that is a software problem? Because my phone won't vibrate at boot. So maybe it can be a hardware prob :/
EDIT: Phone started blinking red light... (nottiffication), I tried to charge it, but nothing...
Mate as mentioned early, same problem I faced..
It'll be better, if you return it to Samsung customer care..
You seem to be saying that the problem occurred unexpectedly. So presumably this isn't subsequent to a flash error, newly installed app or a trauma (dropping the phone, etc).
First ensure that your battery is charged, plug in the phone to a charger as well and try turning it on. If at all possible, borrow a battery from a friend's S5 or go to a store and borrow a battery for 30 seconds to confirm that the battery isn't the issue.
If the problem persists, then remove the cable and battery. Then put the battery back into the phone and press and continue to hold in this order, the volume down key, then menu key, then power key. Hold all three until the screen powers up (about 5 seconds). If this doesn't work.. the most likely problem is a damaged power key - try pressing hard or "wiggling" it to see if that makes a difference.
If you still can't start the phone, then see if a local cellular repair shop has a "jtag jig" that you can borrow. Or you can buy one on Ebay for a few dollars. When this jig is plugged into the USB socket, the phone should automatically restart.
If all of the above fails (which is unlikely), you would seem to have a hardware problem or unknown origin. Which would be very unusual. If your phone is under warranty, make a claim. Otherwise get an estimate to repair it.
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If I hold all 4 buttons at the same time and connect the phone to PC, PC recognises the phone for a few seconds. Well, maybe not recognises, I cant see it, but it plays the same sound as if connected flash drive to pc. However, everytime it disconnects within a few seconds...
I´m in the same case, but I was flashing the Galaxy S5 with the four files ROM and the pit file using Odin3.09. All the process ended well, but after rebooting there apeared one Screen sayin something like "Some files at this phone are encripted and there can´t be modified......." so I did a manual reboot and take off USB cable and from this moment the phone don´t do anything but giving a sound when I plug USB to computer cable and I can see new COM --> Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008, and there repeat a loop.
I´m still looking for a solution, but it gives me that there is time to change phone.
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This thread is old but idk if this was ever solved, so in case anyone else ever has an issue like this. My Gf is still rocking this phone so i've had a little experience with it. The phone wont turn on or charge. I got it to work by sticking a flat head screw driver and prying it fairly hard against the bottom of the battery (the side closest to the charge port) and forcing the battery harder against the metal contacts. While pushing the battery I turn on the phone and it starts right up and continues to run even after letting the pressure off. I've noticed this happens every few times i take the battery out, but this method has never failed for me turning the phone back on. Hope someone finds this helpful.
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This thread is old but idk if this was ever solved, so in case anyone else ever has an issue like this. My Gf is still rocking this phone so i've had a little experience with it. The phone wont turn on or charge. I got it to work by sticking a flat head screw driver and prying it fairly hard against the bottom of the battery (the side closest to the charge port) and forcing the battery harder against the metal contacts. While pushing the battery I turn on the phone and it starts right up and continues to run even after letting the pressure off. I've noticed this happens every few times i take the battery out, but this method has never failed for me turning the phone back on. Hope someone finds this helpful.
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weird, youd think that bending the tabs out to force contact with the battery better would do the same trick fwif
Hello everyone!
My parents contacted me asking for help with some phone issues that I thought would be minor but this is now something I have to submit to you guys because I just don't know how to tackle this issue;
I've got an unmodified, completely stock AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4 that has been owned since launch. My parents were initially complaining about how the phone stopped charging and wouldn't turn on. I thought, "Easy, dead battery, it's been 3 years so how could it not? It might not be delivering enough voltage for the SoC..." but i'm not sure that's the full story which is why I want your guys' opinion since this place is a wealth of knowledge.
Things that are known:
When you charge the phone, the basic "battery charging indicator" that is shown when Android is not booted into or powered on freezes, or sometimes does not detect a battery so does not even turn on. Doing battery pulls seems to change how the phone responds. This is what my parents were experiencing. I thought, either dead battery, dead micro-USB cable, AC adapter, or charging circuit within the phone. Since this was obviously a big job, I took the phone back home for this weekend to play with and now this is what i'm experiencing.
So I got the phone to charge using one of my AC adapters for some reason, despite using the supposed broken charging cable to transfer data successfully without corruption using my own phone (LG G2) to confirm if it was just the cable. So now the SGS4 has a battery that is 100% charged, I turn on the phone and tried various methods to get the phone to boot successfully back into android. The first obvious one was to boot into safe mode using PWR, letting go of PWR, and then pressing VOL UP. It booted ONCE or TWICE successfully into safe mode into android, it shut off after 5 seconds being into the system due to low battery. This was BEFORE I was able to successfully charge the battery to 100% with my AC adapter but has failed to boot since.
Now since I've been failing to get into safe mode as when I boot the phone up, the phone freezes or has graphical glitches at the Samsung post/splash logo as seen here:
After some desperation, I considered using KIES/Odin to reflash, but mostly I tried going into download mode to see if the phone would even go into it by doing PWR + VOL DOWN. It did get into download mode but it froze/restarted forcing a battery pull and ever since then I keep getting occasional error messages such as "System software not authorized by AT&T has been found on your phone.", or this screen with a Samsung logo and an open padlock. I notice sometimes that when I'm at this open padlock screen, it sometimes begins to boot into the system but quickly freezes when it plays the boot jingle:
At any rate, I ordered a new battery but I fear this might be EMMC corruption or just something I don't quite understand. The phone has valuable information that I have to recover despite my parents CANCELLING a backup of the phone, they failed to heed my due diligence and are now freaking out about the data (photos, contacts, etc). I just need the phone to boot so I can make a nandroid backup, export the contacts, transfer media off the phone and wipe this thing and start anew. However i've already let them know that it might not be possible. The most important thing is to get this thing out of this soft-brick?
Please help because I have no idea where to steer this ship from here on out aside from waiting to receive that new battery and hope these instability issues are caused by low voltage. I had an SGS2 which had the crazy EMMC bug so I'm hoping its not EMMC corruption.
Thanks for your time everyone! I'll update this thread to reflect new information as I play around with the phone.
Edit: Here is a video, I go through a lot of the same information posted in this thread but here it is.
https://youtu.be/EXUKU68CyQQ
Possible loose connection inside the phone? Was the phone every bumped, dropped, or exposed to moisture?
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Possible loose connection inside the phone? Was the phone every bumped, dropped, or exposed to moisture?
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Not that I know of. I'm going to check the water damage stickers if I can to ensure that's not the case but i've been told it was sudden. It had been dropped once before but had been working fine for quite some time up until recently.
Maybe the effects of the drop and manifesting themselves now?
happened on two different roms (RR and LOS)
battery < 10%
plug phone in to charge overnight (wall outlet)
find the phone bootlooping in the morning (probably after 4-6 hour charge) maybe not bootlooping, but stuck on boot animation
unplug, hold power to turn off and turn on
phone boots, but all app data has been wiped
really annoying problem that i hadnt had in over a month with RR as daily driver. switched to LOS and just happened again
I have a feeling this is hardware related now... and not necessarily related to the low battery state when plugged in... seems like battery charges up and then this occurs, but im unsure how to diagnose the issue... google has failed me on this one :crying:
Finally figured this out, hopefully helps someone else
After phone has rebooted on its own and is stuck on the boot animation, unplug the USB adapter. It will eventually boot and then reboot again on its own. Once it does boot the second time, it will be fine
The wiping was happening because I was holding down power to force the reboot. Should not do this
Very surprised that I am the only one reporting this on this device and that no one else has even heard of this. But ok
Essential PH-1 has continued to be my daily driver for almost 5 years now.
I haven't backed up the data, not even to GDrive. Yes, quite dumb. I finally found time to start to look into backing up recently, with the ADB route.
For the past 2 or 3 years, rebooting was problematic where it'd take 5+ minutes or required pressing the Power button down for a second buzz from off state, releasing it only when the animation with small circles would start. It'd then boot up to completion.
Recently, after fully charging and booting up from off state, it started showing new symptom where it'd be stuck indefinitely the Essential logo splash screen. At that time, I was still able to go into bootloader/recovery menu.
I rebooted and let it continue stuck on the Essential logo, hoping maybe it'd just take longer. After an hour, I forced it to shut down and rebooted again and put it aside to wait for it.
Within less than 2 hours, I noticed the display went blank/black.
After that, regardless of how long I press the Power button, the phone would never wake up anymore.
Plugging in the Essential OEM power adapter also does not even show the LED turning on. Can't tell if the USB port was busted or not but would be surprised if it did as charging and data transfer had always gone through a magnetic plug that's permanently plugged-in to the USB port.
Bootloader was never unlocked and, as such, also never attempted to gain root access to Android.
It was running the official Android 10 ROM from February 2020 (?).
There was no smoke or any unusual smell.
1. Is this a known/previously reported problem? I'd like to read on what others who experienced the same may have tried to resurrect.
2. If, let us say, the problem is actually with the battery, would the phone not show any signs of life when plugged-in to power adapter?
3. What are the chances some other electronics may either have slowly deteriorated or have gotten fried inside that casing?
4. If it's never powering back on, are there instructions on how to de-solder the internal storage component to try to recover the data?
5. What other possibilities can cause an Android device to not even show any signs of life?
6. Any other ideas?
Appreciate help from the community, including any pointers even if referring to a different Android device.