Has anyone else had weird things happen while trying to manually boot into recovery? Usually I can get into recovery just fine, but this has happened to me twice now: I'll shut the phone down, then hold VOL- and PWR. But instead of the android on its back, it'll show the white Google logo. If I keep the VOL and PWR buttons pressed down, the red LED will blink several times and then the phone will shut off. If I then push/hold the PWR button, the phone boots up normally.
I know there are people having trouble with possibly bricked N4s showing the red LED - that is not what I'm experiencing. My phone runs and boots just fine. I'm just wondering whether the weird LED I'm seeing is cause for concern, or if I'm just doing something silly while booting into recovery? Am I holding down the PWR button too long and the phone thinks I'm trying to hard reset?
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Ok, I have a T-Mobile Mytouch 3G (Magic) which was Rooted. I used FastBootCommander to flash one of the Gingerbread .zip files and it failed.
Now, I can't even boot the phone. If I remove the battery, then replace it and hook up my PC cable, the amber light comes on. If I then hit the power button, the amber light goes off and nothing else happens, and at that point I can only remove the battery again to get the amber light to come back.
If I hold the trackball and hit the power button I get the blue light, but I still
can't do anything from there.
Am I completely bricked? Any tricks I'm missing?
Hmm...
Remove battery and place it back after 5-10 seconds. It can help when phone is bootlooping.
Then press and hold Back + Power. Phone will start into fastboot-mode
Other combinations:
Home + Power (recovery)
VolumeDown + Power (hboot)
If any combination will success - hardware is working properly, but need ROM)
None of the combos are working except for Trackball + Power, and that only
gives me the blue light.
totally bricked i think
your case like mine before,if we plug charging and push power button, light goes off..
all you can do is JTAG i think..
Yeah. A brick.
McCordRM, what files did you flash? I will analyze them...
JTAG do
success with JTAG,
last chance to wake up from dead(Bricked)
Hello all,
My mother got an a500 about seven months ago and the other day she put it to charge and the next day it wouldn't turn on at all, just a black screen. When the charger is plugged in, the power button glows white. Take it off charge and the light goes out and that's all it will do.
I have tried searching through multiple forums and I have tried all the solutions I have found. I tried pressing the reset button near the usb plug, I tried a hard reset by holding the power and volume + buttons multiple ways, i.e. I held them both for thirty seconds, held the vol button and pressed power for three seconds and about every other iteration I could find. Nothing happened not even a vibration like from what I've read it is supposed to do. I downloaded the update.acer.zip file and put it on an sd card and tried flashing it by holding the power and vol - buttons, still nothing.
The tab has not been moded in any way, however, God only knows what apps my mother way have downloaded to it...
I am at my wits end and I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am a noob so it wouldn't surprise me if I am not doing the flashing right or if I have the wrong files, all the links I found on the forums were non functional and I had to download it from filecorp.com.
Thanks in advance!
Core645 said:
Hello all,
My mother got an a500 about seven months ago and the other day she put it to charge and the next day it wouldn't turn on at all, just a black screen. When the charger is plugged in, the power button glows white. Take it off charge and the light goes out and that's all it will do.
I have tried searching through multiple forums and I have tried all the solutions I have found. I tried pressing the reset button near the usb plug, I tried a hard reset by holding the power and volume + buttons multiple ways, i.e. I held them both for thirty seconds, held the vol button and pressed power for three seconds and about every other iteration I could find. Nothing happened not even a vibration like from what I've read it is supposed to do. I downloaded the update.acer.zip file and put it on an sd card and tried flashing it by holding the power and vol - buttons, still nothing.
The tab has not been moded in any way, however, God only knows what apps my mother way have downloaded to it...
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The white light when plugged to the charger just indicates it's fully charged.
Test 1. Press and hold the PWR button for 7 seconds, release, wait a couple seconds to see if it responds, then press and hold for another 7 seconds. See if it responds.This is to check if the tab is in Sleep of Death (SOD)
Test 2. Using a paper clip, press and hold the pinhole reset (near USB) and then press and hold PWR. After 4 seconds release PWR, 1 second later release pinhole. See if is vibrates and goes into APX mode, (tab should vibrate once with a black screen and white PWR button) if it does, press and hold PWR only for a few seconds. Wait a couple seconds, then PWR on tab by holding PWR about 6 or 7 seconds.
Test 2 is just to see if the tab responds to anything,
If you can't get any response from the above, then it's best to turn it in for repair.
MD
@Moscow Desire: he pressed the reset button already so it is probably not SoD. Unless SoD makes reset button unresponsive too.
My tab does not vibrate when entering APX mode at all. Only the white power button LED turns on and the screen stays off.
@Core645: try this at first
- disconnect charger so the LED turns off
- hold power button for about 5 seconds
If the power button LED turns white and nothing else is happening then your tab is stuck in APX mode. You can confirm this by connecting micro USB cable from your PC. If you have windows it'll ask for drivers for Nvidia Download Mode or something like that.
Then check what Moscow Desire suggests with the reset button. I only ask you do my check at first because by holding reset you would achieve the same result and you wouldn't know if it is stuck in APX or you just forced it to APX by holding reset button.
My N4 won't power on, at all. I've tried doing the fix where you hold power and volume down and plug it in, and it'll go to recovery, the Google sign, then it'll power off and flash a single red light before going dead again. When I plug it in, without touching any buttons, one red light flashes then nothing else happens. Oh, and I've kept it charging for 2 hours and nothing different has happened. What's up with it? Did I brick my advice?
My wife woke up this morning to an unresponsive phone. It's been on the charger all night.
The screen is off, and the led blinks blue about every five seconds.
power+volume keys has no effect - neither power + vol down nor the standard recovery- or download mode combinations, even holding down for half a minute or more.
The phone hasn't even been flashed - it's still on the original ROM.
Never seen this on any Galaxy device before, I'm completely clueless.
Have you seen this before? Any ideas on how to force it to power down?
Thanks!
force restart is power button and volume down for 10 sec if that's not helping you have a broken phone.
Thanks. As I wrote, force reboot didn't work.
But it seems I was wrong - it did work, but I had to hold the vol down and power buttons pressed for over a minute!
So problem solved, for now.
Hi
I tried to flash ZUI 2.3 with QFIL. but some errors appeard. so i Stopped flashing and i rebooted my phone.
but now the screen is Black and the phone vibrate every 10-15 seconds.
when i Press and keep power Button. there is two kind of vibration. a quick vibration and a longer vibration. but nothing happening by holding power button.
i tried holding Power button & Vol Down nothing happened.
power button & vol Up , nothing happened.
power button & vol up & vol Down ... also nothing happening...
my PC does not recognize the phone ... so i cant use adb.
So I'm desperated . What should i do to fix this ?
You can refer to this post, save your cell phone.
http://bbs.lenovomobile.cn/zukedge/t678962/
my PC does not recognize the phone. i dont have any access to phone. i only see the black screen and periodic vibration