[Q] No Vibration, Hardware Issue - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Hi all,
Let me preface this by saying I am trying to avoid a factory reset if possible. I have had a hard time getting my phone to where it is now, with many software glitches and boot loops along the way, and I'd like to avoid going down that road again, if possible.
I have recently lost all vibration on my S4. It doesn't even vibrate during startup/shut down loops. I am rooted but running a stock ROM. In order to see if this is a hardware problem, I tried *#7353# and clicked "Vibration" and nothing happens.
My question is this: is this text not working definitive evidence that the issue is hardware-related? Many forum posts suggest a factory reset to resolve vibration issues, but like I said I'd prefer to avoid this. Is there any chance my vibration issue is still a software problem or can I confirm from the test mode not working that it is definitely hardware?
Thanks.

cpmcguir said:
Hi all,
Let me preface this by saying I am trying to avoid a factory reset if possible. I have had a hard time getting my phone to where it is now, with many software glitches and boot loops along the way, and I'd like to avoid going down that road again, if possible.
I have recently lost all vibration on my S4. It doesn't even vibrate during startup/shut down loops. I am rooted but running a stock ROM. In order to see if this is a hardware problem, I tried *#7353# and clicked "Vibration" and nothing happens.
My question is this: is this text not working definitive evidence that the issue is hardware-related? Many forum posts suggest a factory reset to resolve vibration issues, but like I said I'd prefer to avoid this. Is there any chance my vibration issue is still a software problem or can I confirm from the test mode not working that it is definitely hardware?
Thanks.
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The saying goes, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and quacks like one, usually..it's a duck, in my time repairing the S4, I've had vibration motors fail. If it's not even vibrating at boot-up then it's definitely hardware. Only instance I'd say it were software is if it vibrated at boot, but wouldn't anywhere else in the system. It's a very easy repair, and inexpensive to replace. Also if you've rooted, do you have a custom recovery installed? If so backup the current rom/stock and restore/flash a new rom to see if it remedies the issue, otherwise hardware hands down! Hope this helps!

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Sudden issues

Hey guys and gals, any help would be appreciated because I'm at a loss.
My sons Mogul was working fine for about 3 months now, but last week it started doing something weird.
First problem is that when it goes into sleep mode, it won't come back out, he has to soft reset it every time.
Second issue is sometimes when he soft resets the phone, it will just go into a reboot loop several times until it would finally start properly. The reboot thing would happen sometimes out of nowhere too.
Any ideas on this? Anyone ever run into these issues together and figured it out? I'm really about to throw in the towel because I've searched and only found issues that were partially like mine but nothing dead on like this. I tried reflashing it with the same ROM that's been on there working this whole time but that didn't help.
My noobish, random shot-in-the-dark guesses:
-maybe it's power related, a different battery might help, and/or eyeball the power contacts for dust/corrosion. Colder weather could have exacerbated this issue.
-moisture related, drying out for a day or so in a warm/dry location may help. Dissassemble as much as practical, at least pull the battery & slide out the keyboard.
Good luck & let us know what you find.

[Help!] Vibration suddenly stopped working, completely

Hi all,
Its very weird for me, my phones vibration suddenly stopped working, completely. I tried all restart the phone, pull the battery out and start after 5mins but nothing helped.
If it’s a hardware issue then I’m worried as I didn’t expect this from a so expensive phone.
I will try factory reset later as I’ve to take all backups but if there any other suggestion please advice. As doing all restore will take time. thanks
soumen.sam said:
Hi all,
Its very weird for me, my phones vibration suddenly stopped working, completely. I tried all restart the phone, pull the battery out and start after 5mins but nothing helped.
If it’s a hardware issue then I’m worried as I didn’t expect this from a so expensive phone.
I will try factory reset later as I’ve to take all backups but if there any other suggestion please advice. As doing all restore will take time. thanks
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Try flashing stock, or close to stock like Alexndr's ROMs. If they work on that, then it's a problem with your ROM..
I just checked with the *#7353# -- Self Test Mode (2nd Hidden Menu) code. it nothing happens for the vibration test, just the option going blue. Can any one try this and post what it does in other devices as i dont have any more note 3 here.
I think the vibration motor is gone.
nicholaschum said:
Try flashing stock, or close to stock like Alexndr's ROMs. If they work on that, then it's a problem with your ROM..
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No other feedback in it. As the self test didn’t turn the vib on so I doubt it’s was hardware problem not a software issue, I googled and check the vib motor location in the phone and give some moderated tap/knock by my finger at the back of the phone and amazingly it started working again.
This is what didn’t expect from a $700 phone. Anyway the issue has been fixed temporarily don’t know what will happen in future.
I need an advice, if any one of you help. Now the thing is, when the vibration stopped, by tapping from behind it started working but after a day it again goes off and never turned on by any thing, I did the same thing many time but this doesn’t help.
After few days I put it on vib mode while listening song and chatting on hangout, I put it in vib mode as new message wont pause the song. But suddenly the vib started again. It worked for that day but next morning it gone again, and then I put it on vib mode and started sending fake msg over hangout many time and it started again after few attempt.
So here I wanted to know it’s a hardware issue or software end issue? as I'm really confused. Thanks
soumen.sam said:
by tapping from behind it started working
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If it's software, no matter what, nothing can detect a tap from behind.
So it has to be hardware.
I think this could be a software end issue too, as now if its not working its not starting but hitting from behind, but if I restart its working again. it was off for a day then while I was listening song on vib mode it suddenly started by itself. since then its going off anyway and coming after restart. and it started after the last small OTA update.
soumen.sam said:
I think this could be a software end issue too, as now if its not working its not starting but hitting from behind, but if I restart its working again. it was off for a day then while I was listening song on vib mode it suddenly started by itself. since then its going off anyway and coming after restart. and it started after the last small OTA update.
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Please use the reply button so I know you actually replied to the thread.
No matter what you do, hitting from behind as a fix means it's hardware. The fact that when you reboot is because it repowers the chip on the board, and when it does it probably allows for some grace working time.
nicholaschum said:
Please use the reply button so I know you actually replied to the thread.
No matter what you do, hitting from behind as a fix means it's hardware. The fact that when you reboot is because it repowers the chip on the board, and when it does it probably allows for some grace working time.
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My Bad, I usually do so but somehow missed that.
Yes I doubt it’s a hardware issue but before repairing or replacing the vibration parts I wanted to try fix it by software end if this is a software issue. I still have the warranty period left for 6month or so but the thing is here in India Samsung doesn’t replace the complete faulty device like they or apple does in US. The always repair or replace the faulty parts. And I’m not comfortable to use a repaired phone.
What I was trying to do is I wanted to reinstall the stock latest firmware by Kies 3. I really don’t want to use any custom rom, neither rooting as Stock is quite good for me and fulfill my all requirement what I need for my work. But the thing is with Kies 3 1stly it always showing “N-900 Device not supported” when I was trying “firmware upgrade and initialization” but somehow I manage to let it work but at the end it showing “you are already have latest firmware” and it stopped.
I googled it as saw all those have this same issue, factory reset didn’t solve this, neither hard reset. I wanted to know is there any way to reinstall the same stock official updated firmware easily by Kies 3? I don’t wanted to do it by odin and a downloaded pack from sammobile, I am looking for a fast and easy official way. the reason I don’t want to use by odin is it will require lots of learning to learn the whole thing to avoid messing up with it, and I really don’t have time for this.
Also another question is: when I went to download mode for the 1st time I see its says “Knox warranty 0x” what does that mean? Warranty void or its still under it. I saw people have 0x0 or 0x1 but didn’t see any one having 0x only. Please advice, thanks
Edit: also now the vibration coming and going off by itself, like yesterday night it was not working but when I wakeup it was working, and no restart meanwhile. BUT I observed most of the time its turning off when I’m charging the phone or at the end of charging or before pulling the charging cable off. When charging starts it was vibrating and during charging it working same, but after I pull the cable, it stopped.

Nexus 4 screen freezes randomly, no reaction when touching.

Hi everyone!
So I just had this problem after I woke up yesterday. I googled a lot but only found similiar problems.
Let me tell you what happened chronologically:
After turning the phone on in the morning it started updating apps as if I was doing a firmware update: "updating apps 1 of 135" etc. Note that my nexus was already running on 5.1.1 and had the latest updates installed.
Now it randomly freezes the screen on whatever screen it was before it happens and it won't respond to any touch input. This can also happen when not using the phone, then it will freeze at the lockscreen (the time freezes with it so sometimes i can see at what time it froze). Also, it loses connection with Wi-Fi as i'm using Whatsapp Desktop when i'm on my laptop and it mentions me that my phone is not connected.
The only thing that "fixes" (temporarily) it is a reboot. Now sometimes, on the lockscreen, i can just hold the power button and the pop-up comes in to turn the phone of, which i can somehow just tap on an it responds by turning the phone off. But sometimes (less frequent than the latter mentioned) the pop-up doesn't come in and holding the power button for a few secs will do the trick.
I hope I informed you all enough and my end question is: does any of you know what this is? How i can fix it or what i can do to prevent it or anything as I am hopeless. (my G3 is up for reparation so this is my sisters old phone, i had a nexus 4 myself for 2 years before the G3).
Thanks in advance!!
The best way to test it is by reformat the OS.
I positively think that it will solve the problem.
Since the phone is no longer under warranty, I guess there is no harm to install custom rom on it. They are fast and stable too.
Hope this help. Good luck.
Sent from my Nexus 4
EXACT thing happened to me too. Backup your data and hard reset from recovery. This fixed it for me
Same problem here bro, but neither custom roms or factory reset helps.... Is there anyone who has successfully solved the problem ?
multimedias said:
Same problem here bro, but neither custom roms or factory reset helps.... Is there anyone who has successfully solved the problem ?
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Then it's time to change the screen or phone. Looks like it is a hardware issue.
Nitin
nitin.chobhe said:
Then it's time to change the screen ...
Nitin
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I agree, your screen needs to be replaced.

Fingerprint hardware not available and screen locks itself immediately!

Hi everyone!
I have a OP 2 for more than one and a half years now and never had any issues with it(stayed stock...) until recently. I didnt update the phone to the latest version and was putting it off, and today in the afternoon when I tried to unlock my phone it said the 'Fingerprint hardware is not available' and after unlocking the phone with the pattern, it IMMEDIATELY LOCKS ITSELF BACK !!! after split second it just locks the screen while everything is working like connection, wifi, messages, notifications, etc. but due to this I cannot access anything on the phone, can't go to settings and switch to onscreen nav bar buttons, can't force stop/wipe cache the com.fingerprints.serviceext either, tried restarting it several times, downloaded the update but can't even install it because the phone just locks!:crying: I have no idea what would fix it and I am avoiding a full reset and wipe on the phone(also based on all i have read, dont think it would fix it anyways)
If anyone knows whats the problem or has dealt with it or knows someone who has, please help me out here on how to fix this and what to do. I did not root it or flash custom ROM's on it yet and never had a flip cover or any sort of case so literally don't know why it happened.
Thanks in advance,
Max
Hi
I had the exact same issue with mine, I was on LineageOS and could access the logs so I was able to determine it was an hardware failure.
Went to a repair shop to replace the home button, and Bam it worked again.
If you didn't flash a custom ROM it is likely an hardware issue just like I had.

Random reboots - how to diagnose? (xpost from reddit /r/motog5)

Hi everyone,
I'm not sure if this is the right place but I experience random reboots sometimes, usually when the phone is in my pocket. I don't feel the phone vibrate when it happens, so I gather it isn't me accidentally turning the phone off.
I've taken "interactive" bug reports from the developer options menu, but I don't know what to look for in the logs. Also, when I try to take a full bug report, I can't share the results by tapping the report-done notification; the notification disappears and I am not presented with any option to share the report.
Motorola support couldn't help me because they insisted that I use safe mode and reproduce the problem, but of course I don't know exactly what triggers this to happen. I also thought there must be some sort of diagnosis I could do other than factory reset.
Thanks in advance.
PS This is the stock firmware, and I've not installed any custom recovery. I am using the latest OTA from Verizon.
Hey! I'm sorry if this is too late, but my gf's phone had the same problem.
It turned out that it was a motherboard issue, and the phone had to be replaced.
Hope it still can help you.
Hello anyuferrari,
You are not too late, and I thank you for your advice. Is there some diagnostic test I can run to see if it's a motherboard problem?
Thanks.

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