[Q] i337 Overheats then no SIM - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Its a 16gb Att and ive had it for about a year and few months. This started happening a while back but never this bad. I would feel the phone get really warm in my pocket. The heat comes from right under the Sim/SD card tray. CPU? So eventually i get so hot it gives me the invalid SIM/ no sim message and rebooting my phone fixed it. About a month ago i read here that it might be a corrupted or damaged SD card. And what do u know, i pull out the card and no more heat/ sim issues. I thought it was my card 64 GB Class 10 Sandisk. But no, every SD card i pop in that isnt empty starts this meltdown. So i had to replace the charger port so i swaped out that board, same issue. Replaced the SD/Sim card tray same issue. I put my finger on the piece the card tray sit on before i stuck on the new one (ribbon cable connected with SD card in slot) and almost burned my finger. I flipped on Dev options and checked off "show cpu ussage" and i see that everytime i pop an SD card in, my CPU usage goes NUTZ, like its low at idle then in shoots to 100% and stayes there for a little, then back down, then back to 100%.
Anyone know whats going on? Or how to fix this? Im out of warranty and the only way i can use my phone is to remove the SD card. And 16GB for me isnt enough.

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8125 not booting / charging & miniSD issue

I did a search but didn't find what I was looking for so I apologize if this has already been posted.
So last night the phone was working fine. When I get up this morning it was off and would barely boot. I would see the boot screen for about 5 secs or so and then it would just shut off. I would occasionally get it to do the same thing after removing the battery for a while but that's it. It wouldn't even charge (no lights or anything when connecting to a charger). So now I just removed my miniSD card and now it's charging. What's up with that? I'm using an ATP ProMax 1gb card that I got from newegg after I got the phone. It was working fine for the most part and this is my first real issue.
The second issue I had with this card (though it's more of an annoyance than an issue) is that when hitting the power button to bring it out of sleep, Spb Pocket Plus wouldn't update the display of the card's free space. It would show the same as the internal memory free. I would have to eject the card and re-insert it for it to update. This wouldn't happen all the time, but enough to annoy the heck out of me.
Anyone ever have either of these issues?
Quick update: with the miniSD card ejected, the phone charged and booted up fine, though the date reads November 24, 2005. I put the miniSD back in that seems fine. My battery is only showing 6% so it must've died overnight, but why wouldn't it charge? I had it connected to my car charge (was out of town all day) and that charger has worked before without any problems. Very weird indeed.
TIA!
I have a kingston 1 gig and my card doesn't give me that problem with SPB pocket+. But it does eat up 9-12mb of ram when i plug it in which is extremely annoying. As to why your device didn't charge with the card.. i don't know, maybe because your battery was completely dead the charger needed to be plugged in for a bit for the device to recognize the charge
Not charging...
I don't know what's going on but I had the same issue this very week with the MiniSD card...
and it was working superbly.
Had an accidental battery drainage... for some reason now it won't even charge. Trying removing the storage card, the battery... everything.
I'm leaving it on the charger even if the lights do not indicate its charging
Anybody want to share

battery died, SD card formatted itself (again)

hi, my phone's battery ran out yesterday night, cuz i went a club and had no place to charge it, my phone normally lasts from 9am - 1am.
but as soon as i got home, i plugged my phone in, and notice my SD card formatted itself! everything is gone! but the diskspace is still being used.
this is like the 10th time my card either curropts, unreadable, or formats.
did anyone find a way to fix this problem yet? it happens atleast twice a month. and it sucks, i lose all my data and notes.
im using the 2.17 t-mo rom on a 8125
and a 2gb OEM card
thanks

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Received as is. Trying to figure out why , when after i have put this in the freezer, and taken the battery, sim and micro SD card out, its still resetting! the furthest it gets is to the windows screen, and then vibrates once and does it all over again. I even updated the ROM to 3.14.531.1 from t-mobiles website. is there any hope?
Check the battery pins and make sure none of them are slightly bent. If the battery pins are good, then your cpu is probably bad.

I think an SD card bricked my phone?

After months of various SD cards not working (phone not detecting them, bootloops when they're inserted, etc), I eventually decided to try out one last SD card that I know works with my brother's phone. Inserting the SD card wouldn't let the phone boot up, as I expected. But even removing the SD card fails to rectify the problem. Now, whenever I try to turn on my phone, the area near the SoC package gets very hot, and I have to remove the battery to power it off and let it cool down. The screen stays blank, and nothing seems to work. I have found out that plugging the phone in while the battery is removed and then reinserting the battery while the phone is still plugged in shows the battery charging icon, but the screen quickly goes blank after that.
Be honest, do I have a bricked phone? Or is there a way to somehow get it to boot, at least into recovery? I have the ZE551KL model.
if u still have warranty asus should take care of ur phone. from what u discribed there is a Short circuit on ur motherboard i don't know if it is possible to repair or not but it is definitly inside ur phone

No SIM detected, and sometimes reports 0% battery when fully charged.

Hi.
This is a friend's stock P8 Lite ALE-L21.
He asked me to look at it because it had stopped recognicing the SIM card. He had taken it to a repair shop, and they told him the battery was bad, and replaced it. But after opening... i'm not sure they replaced it, it looks "too stock".
In any case, that didnt solve the problem.
I took the phone apart, cleaned everything with small brushes and contactt cleaner, and inserted my phone's SIM card because he was using his on another phone for the moment. IT WORKED! I could make a call from it and connect to the LTE network.
So i remove the SIM card and give the phone to him. Next day he says that he's put his card on the phone and it wont take it. I take the phone again, try with mine, and no luck.
I have taken it apart again and checked with a multi-meter that every pin on the SIM card tray has a connection with the mainboard, and that all pins are positioned well. I dont think the slot is the problem.
A weird thing happens, also. The phone sommetimes reports 0% battery when you turn it on, even if you just charged it. Just now, it was at 50% battery, i rebooted it, and it reported "battery depleted, the phone will turn off in 30 seoconds". And then i booted again and it reported 12%.
Are this symptoms familiar to someone? Is the board toasted?

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