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Hey Guys I really need your help my N1 won't power on for some reason. I really need to get some things off the phone from certain software that I had in case I have to have it repaired or sent away. I'll try to be brief what happened I was exercising with my phone inside a protective case that covers the whole phone and I went to change the next song while listening to music and when i went to push the power button the screen remained black the whole time and I couldn't see anything at all the screen was black the whole time after numerous attempts at pushing the power button. So I held down the power button to try and reboot it and then the music stopped, so then I hit the power button again to turn it on and it hasn't turned on since yesterday. I even took the battery out and let it chill for a min and still doesn't work. when I plug it in to the charger the orange/green light comes on and as well with the USB connection too, but still can get it to power on.
Anyone have any Idea what it could be? I am assuming it's the power button but I am not for sure. Is there anyway to turn it on again in case i need to recover any files, etc. the reason i want to get it to work is that I don't want to have to go through the hassle of sending it away to be repaired if there is some way I can do it myself. I am trying to avoid sending it away with my carrier and I really need to access certain files on the phone if all else fails. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate it thnx to anyone.
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Hello, is there any way to get my BRAVO to power on with one of the volume buttons? My power button only works every great once in a while, and now, if it powers off, I have to get to the bootmenu on the blue light before it goes to the battery charge indicator while it's plugged into a charger. then I have to fiddle with the power button while I have REBOOT selected. I would buy another one and install it, but I fear it may be the connector on the main board, and I don't want to break anything else while trying. the button seems to click just fine. it just doesn't register on the phone.
I use a screen off app and the volume button wake when the phone is turned.
all suggestions are appreciated.
Use Rom Toolbox by JRummy. There's a Rebooter widget that allows you to Reboot, Fast Reboot, Reboot Recovery\Bootmenu, Power Off, Restart SystemUI. I have the Pro version (highly recommended app to have), but I think the Lite\Free version has that feature as well. On CM10, select Rom Toolbox from the Widget Screen (app drawer) then select Rebooter -- for some reason, selecting Rebooter from the Widget Screen doesn't work (never shows up on desktop). Its a really good widget to have if you're running Paranoid and changing up your dpi values.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure my BRAVO has burned up now. about 5 hours ago it just shut off while I was using it, and now I can't get the charge LED to come on. The shutting off thing really isn't anything new,but the LED thing is. It used to shut off a lot; sometimes I couldn't get it to stay on for more than five minutes, and other times it would be fine for a couple weeks.
I finally took the phone apart figuring that it couldn't hurt anything since the phone wont turn on anyway. The power button itself was physically fine. (at least from what I can tell) I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
I was wanting a faster phone anyway, but I really liked that phone. These BRAVOs really have some great development going on for them. Thanks for the help Skeevy.
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Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure my BRAVO has burned up now. about 5 hours ago it just shut off while I was using it, and now I can't get the charge LED to come on. The shutting off thing really isn't anything new,but the LED thing is. It used to shut off a lot; sometimes I couldn't get it to stay on for more than five minutes, and other times it would be fine for a couple weeks.
I finally took the phone apart figuring that it couldn't hurt anything since the phone wont turn on anyway. The power button itself was physically fine. (at least from what I can tell) I didn't see anything out of the ordinary.
I was wanting a faster phone anyway, but I really liked that phone. These BRAVOs really have some great development going on for them. Thanks for the help Skeevy.
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I'm beginning to think that this phone is possessed. it was sitting on my desk not even plugged in and it just turned on for no reason. absolutely no reason whatsoever.
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That really sucks. You weren't running a Defy CM10 Custom Kernel rom were you? If so, that may be the problem -- it ships with the 526 battd and once it fully dies you have to charge on a wall charger and pray. I almost had that issue myself -- installed rom before work and forgot to push the 525\520 battd. Luckily I made it home with 3% battery left and was able to push and charge -- well, I accidentally set it with 644 permissions and the led wouldn't come on, phone wouldn't charge, yada yada...had 1% left when I did the 755 chmod...makes me wonder if that was your problem as well. If it was (wrong permissions on battd) your only solutions are the MacGuyver cable\Motorola Factory Cable or use another Bravo\Defy to charge your battery on an external battery charger.
I really hope you're not screwed. 2013 is looking to be a good year for the platform. Custom Kernels, Jellybean, AOSP. Luckily Bravo's are really cheap now. I've seen some on eBay for cheaper than the parts to fix them.
Good luck on finding a new phone. Every time I find a phone I want it either AT&T modified it and locked the bootloader --
Xperia TL (I think L means locked down), its not for my network, or it costs too much for my budget (Note 2). I'd have a TL on the way if it weren't for the locked bootloader -- Thanks AT&T, you're awesome. After looking, I can pick up an HTC One X for $49.95 -- may be my new phone.
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Good luck on finding a new phone. Every time I find a phone I want it either AT&T modified it and locked the bootloader --
Xperia TL (I think L means locked down), its not for my network, or it costs too much for my budget (Note 2). I'd have a TL on the way if it weren't for the locked bootloader -- Thanks AT&T, you're awesome. After looking, I can pick up an HTC One X for $49.95 -- may be my new phone.
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The one thing I didn't like about the one x was the non removable battery. What's your thought on that?
As far as I know I'm on the stock kernel; I'm on your cm7 Kang. I really can't figure this thing out. It's still shutting of on me after being on for about two minutes( that's if it even makes it past the red "M") , but if I plug it into a wall charger it powers on and stays on and doesn't shut off until I unplug it, and then other times it stays on for about 30 seconds after I unplug the charger then shuts off. I might just need a new battery. it was fine the day before last.
I've seen the ones on ebay, the one just needs a digitizer, and I have that. I would have to go with t-mobile to get another phone unless I save up.I had a new until I hard bricked it a couple weeks ago. It was a Pantech BURST that I bought unlocked for $160. the clockwork mod that was built for it rewrote all the boot partitions when it wasn't supposed to. So now I have a $160 paper weight sitting on my desk.
Also, when did all this stuff about kernels start happening. I was gone for a month, and now I have no idea about whats going on.
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The one thing I didn't like about the one x was the non removable battery. What's your thought on that?
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That and the no sdcard slot makes it a deal breaker....Its one of the phones that I can get cheap on upgrade, but those 2 "features" make me not want it -- my Bravo has more storage than the OneX -- 18gb via sdcard and that's not enough for me (I keep 12Gb of music on my sdcard, would be 15gb but I only have the one 16gb card and need room for nandroids and roms.) Perhaps I'll just hit someone with my 3lb sledge and take their Note 2.
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As far as I know I'm on the stock kernel; I'm on your cm7 Kang. I really can't figure this thing out. It's still shutting of on me after being on for about two minutes( that's if it even makes it past the red "M") , but if I plug it into a wall charger it powers on and stays on and doesn't shut off until I unplug it, and then other times it stays on for about 30 seconds after I unplug the charger then shuts off. I might just need a new battery. it was fine the day before last.
I've seen the ones on ebay, the one just needs a digitizer, and I have that. I would have to go with t-mobile to get another phone unless I save up.I had a new until I hard bricked it a couple weeks ago. It was a Pantech BURST that I bought unlocked for $160. the clockwork mod that was built for it rewrote all the boot partitions when it wasn't supposed to. So now I have a $160 paper weight sitting on my desk.
Also, when did all this stuff about kernels start happening. I was gone for a month, and now I have no idea about whats going on.
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Either bad battery or bad connections (wipe them with alcohol) I guess. Picked up a battery for $7 last night (found them for cheaper, but I was already on newegg getting a 4 pin to sata power converter -- only have one sata power cable on my power supply and either I use it for my 2tb hard drive or dvd drive -- 2tb drive won).
Looks like the Pantech Burst is easy to brick...Apparently CWM 6 flashes a bad recovery. CWM 5 reported to work just fine. Sucks that there's no PIT or SBF type file for you to use. Maybe one will be leaked and that'll unbrick you.
About 2 months ago MS2 user Czechop managed to make a 2nd-boot module load a custom kernel WITH radio. Sources were released about a week later and Quarx had a custom kernel up and running in no time. Defy JB 2nd-Boot roms run an updated 2.6 kernel and a 3.0 kernel is in the works . Sadly, the photo camera doesn't work (video and panorama do) and the phone acts like a Defy with 4 capacitive buttons.
If you want to flash a Defy 2nd-Boot rom, you have to replace /system/bin/battd with the one from our CM7 (necessary for the battery to charge properly), same thing with /system/etc/mot_ise_imager_cfg.bin (to use the limited camera). I use them as my daily rom on the Bravo and don't have any issues with them, but no camera doesn't bother me and the 4 capacitive buttons aren't that annoying.
The capacitive bug is due to using the Defy Plus devtree with the kernel (Bravo devtree hangs on boot). Not sure about the camera bug. Read the last 2 pages of the JB thread over in the dev section for more info.
Darn! Part of my power button actually broke off inside the phone now. the other day this wouldn't have been as much of a problem because when I plugged it in to a computer, or the charger, it would boot right up, but now it goes to the battery charge indicator. I can get to recovery, but with no power button I cant do anything when I'm there. I really don't want to part with this phone. I realize that I could probably push the twrp recovery through ADB so that I could still flash stuff, but is their anyway to modify the phone or kernel so that it will power on when any of the physical buttons are pressed?
I love this phone, but being dropped on concrete everyday really cut its life short.
I've had this Motorola Droid RAZR for like two years now and a friend of mine took it and worked on it, adding something called "Cyanogen Mod" and he 'rooted' it I believe? Ever since, phone has worked great. However, today I tapped the home button and the whole screen had a weird visual glitch where the wallpaper was entirely intact but the icons and such were only half appearing, like someone scratched them out with fingernails or something. It would go away and come back so I got frustrated and rebooted my phone. It starts up normally and goes to this screen where you can do different stuff with Cyanogen mod (like changing the rom? or changing boot options) and usually I just continue past that because for 1) I know nothing about it and 2) It always was fine. But when it did the typical boot up, it just skipped back to the first screen you get when you turn the phone on and repeats. It never goes to the second part of the Cyanogen Mod where the words appear and the little thing spins, it simply skips back to the screen you get when you power up and repeats. It keeps doing this and I looked online how to fix it, tried about twelve different things (like restoring different aspects and using different roms or making new roms) and it just didn't work. Eventually it got bugged out where the screen was just black, couldn't get it to do anything but reboot and go back to black. I let it sit until the battery ran dry I believe and now I'm at a brick wall.
Is there a way I can totally just revamp and start fresh? Like remove all of it and reinstall Cyanogen mod/the OS and all that jazz? I don't mind losing everything if I can just keep the phone, I don't pay for a cellphone and I don't want one I just use the droid for texting apps/games/reddit/etc. If anyone could help me save this thing I'd appreciate it.
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Hello? Can Somebody help me out, I've waited a couple days now and no one has said a thing?
You have safestrap installed, correct? If so, what version?
Dr. Mario said:
You have safestrap installed, correct? If so, what version?
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How would I know if I had it installed? I remember when I booted up the phone something came on with a picture of a little robot that said "Safestrap Enabled" and then when I had this problem it was saying "Safestrap Disabled". I can't get the phone to turn on right now though, is there a way I can check what version I have another way?
Ah. I see. First. try entering Safestrap menu upon rebooting, instead of allowing it to boot normally, and look at ROM slot and see if custom OS' ROM slot is active. If it's there and is not active try reactivate it. If it won't budge, get microSD card and find XT910 (RAZR - spyder) CM 11. If you don't know what to pick, I will look in a bit.
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Ah. I see. First. try entering Safestrap menu upon rebooting, instead of allowing it to boot normally, and look at ROM slot and see if custom OS' ROM slot is active. If it's there and is not active try reactivate it. If it won't budge, get microSD card and find XT910 (RAZR - spyder) CM 11. If you don't know what to pick, I will look in a bit.
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Just tried booting it up, nothing is working I think the phone is dead. I plug it into the charger and only the notification light on the top left goes on a blueish white and stays on as long as it is plugged into the charger. Nothing will turn on at all and the phone doesn't seem to respond to anything. Is my phone just dead..?
Soft bricked. Try pushing both volume down and up button while plugged into either computer or charger, and hold down power button until it boots. I hope you won't need to buy Motorola factory cable at this point.
Let your device charge for a few hours until it boots up. Then boot it into APfastboot and flash the stock firmware with RSDLite.
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Let your device charge for a few hours until it boots up. Then boot it into APfastboot and flash the stock firmware with RSDLite.
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In English please?
Edit: Just plugged it in like you said and instantly the boot screen came on rather than simply that silly light so I think my phone is improving but I still would like to entirely revamp it or redo it or whatever you wanna call it so that everything is fresh and new and my phone is okay.
Good. I think it could be because the battery died somehow. Good thing the protection mechanism on the bootloader didn't have the wild idea of disabling the phone.
Phone screen is black, but phone still "works".. Cannot get screen to come back on!
I have no idea what happened, 5 minutes after being in my pocket I pulled it out and the screen was un-responsive.
The notification light is still on, power light, etc. The power button works, I can push and hold and reboot and the two bottom buttons on the phone light up. I was able to "swipe" my password and it vibrated and accepted it, I am getting vibrate notifications too. I just have a black screen and I can't figure out what to do!
I am rooted, but I haven't had any changes to the phone in a few weeks since I had rooted. I tried using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395 but I cannot figure out how to get the device to show up in the program to use.
I am at a loss on what to do...
No Samsung logo if you remove the battery for 30 seconds, replace it and power on normally?
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No Samsung logo if you remove the battery for 30 seconds, replace it and power on normally?
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Nope, no nothing. No logos, no screen flicker, no colors of any sort - just black. The LED goes blue as it boots up, etc, so I know it does power up.. and once it is done I can even swipe my password and it gives the feedback vibrate..
Just in case this was an issue with the root and whatnot I flashed the stock with Odin and I still am getting black screened.
I contacted VZW support last night, and the chat rep told me they would have to just replace the phone. I am guessing this may be a hardware issue.
Yea if there is no logo whatsoever when you first turn it on, it sounds like a hardware issue, not a ROM issue
I forget exactly which logo shows first (S5 I think) that isn't part of the ROM afaik, the Samsung animated logo is the ROM, so if you don't even get the one before the Samsung animation, doesn't sound good
Is it the G900F? If yes, the only thing I can think that might possibly work, is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
Don't use unless it's the G900F
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Yea if there is no logo whatsoever when you first turn it on, it sounds like a hardware issue, not a ROM issue
I forget exactly which logo shows first (S5 I think) that isn't part of the ROM afaik, the Samsung animated logo is the ROM, so if you don't even get the one before the Samsung animation, doesn't sound good
Is it the G900F? If yes, the only thing I can think that might possibly work, is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/general/g900f-debrick-img-lollipop-t3240626
Don't use unless it's the G900F
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I don't believe it's G9000F... and I am fairly certain now that it isn't a software issue since everything else 'loads', just not my damn screen.. lol.
Thanks for your help though
The reason I posted that link, is, if the bootloader has corrupted, it is possible you won't get any logo at all, and that debrick image basically tricks the phone into using the MicroSD card to boot into download mode from, where you can recover the main storage
It should tell you under the battery which model S5 it is
If the screen doesn't even light up, then it sounds more like hardware
See if this gives you access
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2786395
It is connector issue.
Either connector is slight loose or if not then need to Change the connector.
My one has same problem.
Solved for less than 10$.
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My brothers TMobile S8 screen randomly stopped working. It has no signs of damage anywhere as well. Weirdly, I managed to get the screen to go on one time by pressing some button combos to try to follow a guide to get it into recovery to factory reset it. Upon the phone booting, the battery had 3% and when I went to show him, it was dead. Now after letting it charge, the screen does not work once again and I can't seem to get it to come on in the same way it did before, the bright blue recovery screen.
Is there any software I can use to just attach the phone to it and factory reset it? I mean, I've seen bad phone screens before that have still had images show up on them, even if heavily damaged physically or it no longer responding to touch and showing dim lights. But this one simply doesn't turn on, except the one random time it did, and it was perfectly fine, showed no sign of damage. Any thoughts would be greatly helpful
Is the battery known to be good?
If not replace it. The system will not boot if there's not enough current. It takes a fair amount of power to boot up. A charger can't provide enough to do so...
It boots up fine, I can hear the initial TMobile boot audio as well as the notification sound the phone makes when it gets to the lock screen. I also had it stop charging @80% not too long after buying the phone on release, with some custom ROM I installed. Ofc its a possibility its battery related, since I can't see anything on it, but it was taken care than the average person I am sure
With a custom rom all bets are off. Makes troubleshooting much harder. Possible rootkit.
Firmware and malware aside if it's booting but no display, possible loose ribbon connector, failed display or mobo. That's assuming the battery is good...
Well I did disable/uninstall Superuser from the phone, and I used it for a couple years before giving it to my brother to use. That is a good point about the cable, I will search for images, maybe I can squeeze a few spots to just see what happens
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Well I did disable/uninstall Superuser from the phone, and I used it for a couple years before giving it to my brother to use. That is a good point about the cable, I will search for images, maybe I can squeeze a few spots to just see what happens
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Sometimes just reseting a connector is all it takes. Those are low voltage lines and a perfect contact is needed.
If the battery is more then 2-3 yo it's probably at the end of its usable service life.
Thanks for the input, I will open it up if nothing else works and I will report back if it helps