During one night my phone just broke down. The screen just stays black and the power button doesn't do anything if the phone isn't plugged into a charger. When charding the phone vibrates, a battery empty icon shows up and it shuts down. It then repeats this as long as it's plugged in. When I pull the plug the phone goes blank again.
While plugged it tries to start when I press the power button. It gets to the samsung logo and shows it for awhile. Then it just shuts down and continues to show the battery empty icon.
I can get to the recovery and download bootmenus. In these bootmodes the phone doesn't shut down unless I pull the plug.
I flashed the original firmware with odin but it did nothing. The system status still shows: custom. But the system binary is Samsung Official.
I tried to switch the battery but it didn't help.
This all happened overnight and I havent installed any apps outside the playstore in a long time and I rooted the phone like 5 months ago. I haven't flashed any custom roms.
Do you think this is a hardware or software issue and should I take the phone to repair? My only concern is the system status and will it affect their will to repair my phone.
Edit: When I flashed the original ROM back the phone could not reboot when plugged into the pc. I had to pull the plug so the phone shut down. Then I plugged it into a wall the phone rebooted normally but couldnt once again get past the samsung logo.
Tried a different charger? or USB > PC ?
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Tried a different charger? or USB > PC ?
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Different charger didn't help. And when plugged into a computer it behaves the same as it was plugged in the wall.
Sounds like a faulty battery, check to see if its swollen and maybe go buy a new one.
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That's what I would have guessed too......but he says he switched battery......
2 batteries with the same fault? Probably not........
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keithross39 said:
That's what I would have guessed too......but he says he switched battery......
2 batteries with the same fault? Probably not........
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Ah, i missed that. Maybe something happened to the actual connector in the phone to the battery, something like that? Whatever the case definitely sounds like a hardware issue.
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Just to make sure, I'd advise finding someone else with a working S5 and borrowing their battery to put in his phone to see if it boots........
If it does, I can say with pretty much 100% certainty that it's a faulty charger port........
Edit......having said the above, I've just re-read the OP, and the fact that he says there are signs of life when he plugs it in leads me to think that it's not the socket itself, but something else........
Maybe a problem with the charging circuit?.......
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Hello all,
I left my phone charging over night as usual. When i woke up i was surprised it had only 32%. I plugged the charger back in, but the phone wouldn't charge. I restarted the phone and when it booted up it had 60%
After some standby time it showed 50% .. really confusing. I pulled the battery out and when i plugged it back in and "before" turning it on. The green battery icon came on flashing with yellow triangle and red thermostat (see pic).
It won't boot up until i plugged in the charger. I left charge until 100% and tried to restart. I got the same icon again and had to plug the charger in.
Anyone know the meaning of this? Battery app showing temp as 36C after boot up. Now it shows 34C. I did attempt battery stat wipe too.
Please share with me your thoughts.
EDIT: I returned mine for a replacement. After that, my nephew admitted that he spilled something right over the usb.
I had a similar problem. When the icon comes up plugged in, yank the battery out and shove it back in.
If that doesn't work, when plugged in take the battery out, unplug the phone, put the battery back in, and then plug it in.
It worked for me!
steve228uk said:
I had a similar problem. When the icon comes up plugged in, yank the battery out and shove it back in.
If that doesn't work, when plugged in take the battery out, unplug the phone, put the battery back in, and then plug it in.
It worked for me!
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HEY!! that worked for me. Thank you sooooo much
OK guys, it came back again. The issue is not resolved. Perhaps a battery failure?
I waited for my battery to completely run out. Then charged it all the way up. Then a simple battery pull out and in takes it down to around 80% ?!
Strange stuff here.
steve228uk said:
I had a similar problem. When the icon comes up plugged in, yank the battery out and shove it back in.
If that doesn't work, when plugged in take the battery out, unplug the phone, put the battery back in, and then plug it in.
It worked for me!
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Sounds like a very delicate procedure xD
it seems i am the only one with this issue :/
Sounds like the battery just isn't being calibrated correctly.
Let it drain fully and then take it out and put it back in. Chances are it'll turn back on. Let it drain again until it shuts off and then charge fully while the phone is off.
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late update ... got a replacement .. i tried everything ..
i've this problem..
does anyone resolved it?
i don't want return it to samsung...
Same problem here. The phone is "charging" even without the charger plugged in (!) When I turn off the phone a green battery icon with a yellow triangle and a red thermostat is flashing. Can't turn it on without a charger plugged in Tried everything. Anyone else suffering from this?
Babylonian said:
Same problem here. The phone is "charging" even without the charger plugged in (!) When I turn off the phone a green battery icon with a yellow triangle and a red thermostat is flashing. Can't turn it on without a charger plugged in Tried everything. Anyone else suffering from this?
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Looks like similar problem, read this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132588
Summary post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15924419&postcount=13
Probably your USB got polluted or bended.
i also think it is a usb issue. i updated the original post. By the way before i returned it for a replacement i tried using a qtip and "contact cleaner" and sprayed some on the usb. After 30 mins i was able to charge normally before it was acting up again.
Bottom line: clean your usb.
Cheers a bunch for your replies! Gonna clean my usb again & carefully "bend" it down a bit. I'll post the results later
Hahaha I laughed so hard in a bus after reading your edit. What a cute nephew
I feel sorry for you though
Tried everything, including a couple of factory resets/wipes. Sent it to the service center yesterday
For me the main idea from using SGS2 for cpl of weeks before selling this crap:
'Do NOT buy korean smartphones !!!'
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For me the main idea from using SGS2 for cpl of weeks before selling this crap:
'Do NOT buy korean smartphones !!!'
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I cannot disagree more. This is the most fantastic phone I've ever had. Feel free to check my signature. I've had worse. Haha. Much worse. This phone has only lagged twice in the months I've had it and I had to do a battery pull once. I've had my iPhone 4 crash more times than this phone.
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I've had charging problems with my SGS2 as well. All of a sudden it started switching tap&talk on and off. Turned very warm and drained the battery juice.
When I attached the charger, it didn't show signs of recognizing that it was attached. I tried to switch it off, and on again with cable connected. Then it started charging, but if I unplugged and tried again it failed again.
So I had to send my beloved SGS2 for service. Now heading on to two weeks without it, i'm growing desperate from having to spend the time with my old Samsung Spica.
Have a look at the charge port problem thread in general. Few of us have had this problem for various reasons.
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i also have a kind of similar problem on my S2, suddenly it stopped charging, when i plug it in i tries to start up but isn't able to & then restarts.
i get the normal battery sign when you plug it in after the battery completely dies (no thermometer), nor does the phone or battery gets hot. is there any solution or should i just take it to a service centre? BTW my phone is rooted & loaded with a custom ROM.
So my SGS4 phone wont charge anymore!
- I went out on Sunday, and later came back home at night. I plugged in the phone and went to sleep.
The next day came over (Monday), in which my phone had full power and battery started draining for normal reasons. During the daytime, at one time, I noticed in the status bar, it said "T-mobile update" , I immediately lowered the status bar, but it was gone. Weird, I thought to myself as I didn't click any "yes" or "ok's", which I wouldn't press anyways. So the night came and I went to charge my phone to realize that it wont charge at all!!!
I tried:
- 3 different charges
- Charge by connecting it to PC (phone is not even detected)
- Let it plugged in all night powered off... woke up, still 2% batt. (Didn't charge)
I don't know what to do.
I might have to send it back to T-Mobile.
Info about my phone:
Rooted CF Autoroot.
No ROMs (Stock)
xologist said:
So my SGS4 phone wont charge anymore!
- I went out on Sunday, and later came back home at night. I plugged in the phone and went to sleep.
The next day came over (Monday), in which my phone had full power and battery started draining for normal reasons. During the daytime, at one time, I noticed in the status bar, it said "T-mobile update" , I immediately lowered the status bar, but it was gone. Weird, I thought to myself as I didn't click any "yes" or "ok's", which I wouldn't press anyways. So the night came and I went to charge my phone to realize that it wont charge at all!!!
I tried:
- 3 different charges
- Charge by connecting it to PC (phone is not even detected)
- Let it plugged in all night powered off... woke up, still 2% batt. (Didn't charge)
I don't know what to do.
I might have to send it back to T-Mobile.
Info about my phone:
Rooted CF Autoroot.
No ROMs (Stock)
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Have you tried turning it off and charge? See if the adapter pins are not broken on the phone?
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Have you tried turning it off and charge? See if the adapter pins are not broken on the phone?
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The pins are fine.
I have tried charging the phone ON and OFF with 4 different chargers.
Weird.... I don't know what else to do... :'(
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Had a similar problem with s3. But it will super slow charge.. pc won't even detect but.
Samsung replaced the usb port and gave me brand new wall charger and usb cable. So get it serviced!
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I'm sending the phone back to T-mobile.
My phone is rooted with CF-Autoroot (for the 9505).
Will I need to unroot, or change firmware????
Send it back. Unroot if you can.
where can I find the original firmware, or un-rooting way?
charge
Do you have another device to charge the battery? I wouldn't recommend trying to unroot your device without a battery with already 50%charge. Also, have you tried doing a battery pull for a few minutes to see if it will charge? I'd try doing a data wipe and factory reset before trying to unroot. You can find the stock firmware in the Android development forum. . just make sure to use the stock firmware instead of the prerooted firmware. I just worry that if you try to do a warranty claim, ttmobile might blame it on custom firmware and deny the claim... probably wouldn't happen but I'm overly cautious.
Try usb
After two monts, my S4 just stopped charging. Woke up one morning and saw that while plugged in all night, battery was at 40%, lower than when i plugged it in. I had been using a couple of old chargers and a dock...all had previously been working for a fairly speedy charge
So, plugging into a wall charger will not even get an acknowledgement from my phone, however, plugging into a turned on and charging laptop via USB will charge my phone. It takes longer to charge but works.
I am rooted and do not want to unroot and take my phone back to ATT unless i really have to. Hope to find a wall charger solution. Even the charger that came with the S4 is useless in the wall.
Trying to fix a family members xt907 so here's the situation which has been nothing but headaches for me:
1. The Phone is only 7 months old and the bootloader is unlocked so warranty exchange is out of the question. She let the battery run down until the phone died. Then without charging the phone she turned it back on and it died again. From that point she couldn't get it to charge or turn back on while plugged in. At this point she brought it to me.
2. I got the phone and did a soft reset which finally got the charging screen to come up (showed the actual charging icon and the fill meter would flash up and then back down periodically). Problem is it never went past 0% after charging all night. I went ahead and tried to power it up thinking maybe it was just a glitch with the charging screen. Phone wouldnt boot. Just stuck at the Motorola logo. Another soft reset and the phone finally boots but now the battery icon showed a '?' and status showed '5% - Unknown'.
3. Performed a factory reset. No change. So I used RSD to flash the stock 4.1.2 firmware/kernel/modem, etc... What I found strange here is that despite the low battery Fastboot AP showed battery as OK, not low and let me flash (bootloader is unlocked, not sure if that affects low battery flashing or if that safeguard just wasnt built into the M).
4. So phone boots back up and shows 7% battery. Plugging in the charger at first notice has no affect. Battery stats shows '7% - Not Charging'. So I unplug the charger and the low battery warning pops up. Plug it back in and phone still doesnt register as charging, but says 'Not Charging'. Then I notice that the lockscreen shows '7% Charging'. Weird. Regardless of all that, the battery was not charging. The percentage never goes up and after reboots the percentage will remain the same. The battery does slowly discharge on the charger if I have it powered on.
5. I tried flashing a couple different roms before flashing back to stock and all had the same problem. I've formated /system hoping it was a problem with the OS but it didnt help. All of these charging tests were performed with the stock Motorola usb cable plugged into the wall charger. I tested the Motorola charger against my S4 to verify it works and also tried my Samsung charger on the Razr and it made no difference. However, booting the Razr M up with the Samsung charger resulted in the '?' in the battery icon and a notification in the status bar saying something about a CommServer starting. This notification was persistant and could not be dismissed. If I reboot the phone with the Motorola charger or no charger then that notification and the '?' dont appear.
6. I should also point out that I opened the phone up and disconnected the battery from the board and discharged the board. As a last resort I completely removed the battery and peeled back the tape on the bottom of the battery to expose the + and - terminals on the battery and wired it up to a stripped down charger and left it for a bit. Upon putting the battery back in the phone it showed a charge of 30% but still had all the same problems otherwise. So the battery is capable of taking a charge, it just wont take it through the phone, whether powered on or off. Thats what leads me to believe the battery itself is not bad. Its not practical for her to pull the battery to charge it, obviously. The phone detects the cable being plugged in and I can transfer files via usb cable to/from the computer no problem, so I'm fairly sure the Micro usb port is ok. Just refuses to charge.
A little lengthy but I'm at my wits end on this and really dont want to have her buy a $50 battery and then its a problem with the phone. I dont usually get stumped when it comes to fixing something but this one really has me. So if anybody can shed some light on this situation it would be greatly appreciated.
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Trying to fix a family members xt907 so here's the situation which has been nothing but headaches for me:
1. The Phone is only 7 months old and the bootloader is unlocked so warranty exchange is out of the question. She let the battery run down until the phone died. Then without charging the phone she turned it back on and it died again. From that point she couldn't get it to charge or turn back on while plugged in. At this point she brought it to me.
2. I got the phone and did a soft reset which finally got the charging screen to come up (showed the actual charging icon and the fill meter would flash up and then back down periodically). Problem is it never went past 0% after charging all night. I went ahead and tried to power it up thinking maybe it was just a glitch with the charging screen. Phone wouldnt boot. Just stuck at the Motorola logo. Another soft reset and the phone finally boots but now the battery icon showed a '?' and status showed '5% - Unknown'.
3. Performed a factory reset. No change. So I used RSD to flash the stock 4.1.2 firmware/kernel/modem, etc... What I found strange here is that despite the low battery Fastboot AP showed battery as OK, not low and let me flash (bootloader is unlocked, not sure if that affects low battery flashing or if that safeguard just wasnt built into the M).
4. So phone boots back up and shows 7% battery. Plugging in the charger at first notice has no affect. Battery stats shows '7% - Not Charging'. So I unplug the charger and the low battery warning pops up. Plug it back in and phone still doesnt register as charging, but says 'Not Charging'. Then I notice that the lockscreen shows '7% Charging'. Weird. Regardless of all that, the battery was not charging. The percentage never goes up and after reboots the percentage will remain the same. The battery does slowly discharge on the charger if I have it powered on.
5. I tried flashing a couple different roms before flashing back to stock and all had the same problem. I've formated /system hoping it was a problem with the OS but it didnt help. All of these charging tests were performed with the stock Motorola usb cable plugged into the wall charger. I tested the Motorola charger against my S4 to verify it works and also tried my Samsung charger on the Razr and it made no difference. However, booting the Razr M up with the Samsung charger resulted in the '?' in the battery icon and a notification in the status bar saying something about a CommServer starting. This notification was persistant and could not be dismissed. If I reboot the phone with the Motorola charger or no charger then that notification and the '?' dont appear.
6. I should also point out that I opened the phone up and disconnected the battery from the board and discharged the board. As a last resort I completely removed the battery and peeled back the tape on the bottom of the battery to expose the + and - terminals on the battery and wired it up to a stripped down charger and left it for a bit. Upon putting the battery back in the phone it showed a charge of 30% but still had all the same problems otherwise. So the battery is capable of taking a charge, it just wont take it through the phone, whether powered on or off. Thats what leads me to believe the battery itself is not bad. Its not practical for her to pull the battery to charge it, obviously. The phone detects the cable being plugged in and I can transfer files via usb cable to/from the computer no problem, so I'm fairly sure the Micro usb port is ok. Just refuses to charge.
A little lengthy but I'm at my wits end on this and really dont want to have her buy a $50 battery and then its a problem with the phone. I dont usually get stumped when it comes to fixing something but this one really has me. So if anybody can shed some light on this situation it would be greatly appreciated.
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I presumed you tried to wipe the battery stats via the battery calibration app? not that I think it would make a difference. another option is enable/disable USB debugging. you could also try charging into a PC or a different outlet (perhaps that outlet does not provide a good current)?
not really sure, just tossing out some ideas...
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I presumed you tried to wipe the battery stats via the battery calibration app? not that I think it would make a difference. another option is enable/disable USB debugging. you could also try charging into a PC or a different outlet (perhaps that outlet does not provide a good current)?
not really sure, just tossing out some ideas...
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I actually installed cwm recovery just to wipe battery stats. Im assuming it works the same way but I'll give the app a try. I'll try anything at this point. Tried your other ideas already though and didnt make any difference.
I appreciate the input. I'll give that app a try and see if it does something different from wiping battery stats in recovery.
CallMeAria said:
I actually installed cwm recovery just to wipe battery stats. Im assuming it works the same way but I'll give the app a try. I'll try anything at this point. Tried your other ideas already though and didnt make any difference.
I appreciate the input. I'll give that app a try and see if it does something different from wiping battery stats in recovery.
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Doubt it. However, the issue seems to be with the hardware, and since it is not a software issue, Motorola could honor the warranty. Last resort would be to unroot and see if you can get an exchange.
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have you tried a non moto cable? the one that came with my fone was total crap, would continuously connect and disconnect when i hooked it up to my comp or try to charge it, so i tried my old samsung cable and i didnt have any disconnect problems at all. just a suggestion
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I actually installed cwm recovery just to wipe battery stats. Im assuming it works the same way but I'll give the app a try. I'll try anything at this point. Tried your other ideas already though and didnt make any difference.
I appreciate the input. I'll give that app a try and see if it does something different from wiping battery stats in recovery.
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Did you ever find a solution? I am having the same issues with my xt907.
What did you have it plugged in to? The fact that it said it was not charging indicates maybe you didn't have enough power coming through the charging port...
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uthkuknwme said:
have you tried a non moto cable? the one that came with my fone was total crap, would continuously connect and disconnect when i hooked it up to my comp or try to charge it, so i tried my old samsung cable and i didnt have any disconnect problems at all. just a suggestion
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yeah I tried my Samsung cable as well.
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Did you ever find a solution? I am having the same issues with my xt907.
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No. Verizon finally sent her a refurb replacement. I got the battery to charge up by taking it out and rigging a charger to it. But the phone still wouldnt accept a charge with the battery back in and it lost the charge it did have 2-3 times faster than normal. Battery Stats also showed the battery was showing a pretty decent voltage so unless the battery itself has a low charge circuit that gets tripped I'd be hesitant to point to the battery itself. And the charger port transfered files just fine and the phone recognized when the charger was plugged in (would go from 'discharging' to 'not charging'. So yeah, I was left stumped. Hopefully somebody else can get this solved for you.
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yeah I tried my Samsung cable as well.
No. Verizon finally sent her a refurb replacement. I got the battery to charge up by taking it out and rigging a charger to it. But the phone still wouldnt accept a charge with the battery back in and it lost the charge it did have 2-3 times faster than normal. Battery Stats also showed the battery was showing a pretty decent voltage so unless the battery itself has a low charge circuit that gets tripped I'd be hesitant to point to the battery itself. And the charger port transfered files just fine and the phone recognized when the charger was plugged in (would go from 'discharging' to 'not charging'. So yeah, I was left stumped. Hopefully somebody else can get this solved for you.
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Just an update: I ended up buying a replacement battery and it fixed the charging issue. I rsd back to stock. Then, playing around with it, I booted to bootloader and selected "Factory" and it immediately booted back to stock, but, the battery had a "?" again. Ready to throw the damn phone against the wall, I rebooted it. The "?" is mysteriously gone. What is the "Factory" setting? I think I tried it before, but had CM10.1 installed. My theory is that this "factory" boot from bootloader actually soft bricked the phone. Either that or the issue was truly the battery and simply replacing it fixed things. I am up and running now, cm10.1 is flawless, imho. Thanks for the quick reply and I hope this helps anyone with similar issues.
Beware of the "Factory" bootloader option...........
Here we go again. Upon a reboot into recovery. Recovery is twrp 2.5. What I notice is the motorola boot img takes an extremely long time (2 minutes) to turn off and cyanogenmod to begin. Could there be something corrupt in the bootloader? Is there any way to reload the bootloader on this device? Anyone have any ideas? Could it be Recovery?
So this is my first post because I can normally find what I'm looking for, except for in this case.
First off my phone, Galaxy S4 Model SGH-I337 running Android 4.2.2 rooted. No custom rom installed, i.e. Cyanogenmod. I recently bought some new batteries and a new charger which I had been using for about two weeks before my problem arose.
I came home one night plugged my phone in to charge and woke up to find it unresponsive. I tried a battery pull and found my phone turns on for about 3 seconds showing the samsung custom screen with the padlock only to shut off again. Same thing happens not matter how many times I perform a battery pull. I tried plugging into my computer but the phone is not detected.
I tried a battery pull and booting into safe mode and debugging mode but the phone just shuts off after 3 seconds no matter what.
I'm not sure if this is a true hard brick since when I perform a battery pull the phone starts and the buttons seem to work, at least enough to enter safe or debugging mode.
I have not seen any threads where the phone momentarily turns on after battery pull only to shut off quickly.
Has anyone run into this problem before and is there anyway to fix it???
billbusby said:
So this is my first post because I can normally find what I'm looking for, except for in this case.
First off my phone, Galaxy S4 Model SGH-I337 running Android 4.2.2 rooted. No custom rom installed, i.e. Cyanogenmod. I recently bought some new batteries and a new charger which I had been using for about two weeks before my problem arose.
I came home one night plugged my phone in to charge and woke up to find it unresponsive. I tried a battery pull and found my phone turns on for about 3 seconds showing the samsung custom screen with the padlock only to shut off again. Same thing happens not matter how many times I perform a battery pull. I tried plugging into my computer but the phone is not detected.
I tried a battery pull and booting into safe mode and debugging mode but the phone just shuts off after 3 seconds no matter what.
I'm not sure if this is a true hard brick since when I perform a battery pull the phone starts and the buttons seem to work, at least enough to enter safe or debugging mode.
I have not seen any threads where the phone momentarily turns on after battery pull only to shut off quickly.
Has anyone run into this problem before and is there anyway to fix it???
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The phone didn't brick itself. So, if you didn't do anything to it and just found it that way (as you said), I would think it is a hardware problem either with the phone or the battery. Have you tried a different battery? If you rule out a defective battery, I would say it is a hardware problem with the phone.
This used to happen to skyrockets due to stuck power button
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RK said:
This used to happen to skyrockets due to stuck power button
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This right here ^
My friend has a T-Mobile GS4 and same thing happened to him. It would only turn on when he would pull the battery and put it back in, but it would turn off soon after. Turns out his power button was jammed. He went and go it replaced.
Try this: Pull your battery and put it back in. If your phone turns on momentarily without you pressing anything then the power button is the problem.
Are you able to enter download mode..or recovery?
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mrao said:
Are you able to enter download mode..or recovery?
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No i can't enter either because the phone shuts off after 3 seconds no matter what I do
PurpleBottle said:
This right here ^
My friend has a T-Mobile GS4 and same thing happened to him. It would only turn on when he would pull the battery and put it back in, but it would turn off soon after. Turns out his power button was jammed. He went and go it replaced.
Try this: Pull your battery and put it back in. If your phone turns on momentarily without you pressing anything then the power button is the problem.
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Is there any way I can take the phone apart and fix this? I don't think returning the phone is an option since my phone is rooted.
billbusby said:
Is there any way I can take the phone apart and fix this? I don't think returning the phone is an option since my phone is rooted.
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Your exact problem just happened to me. Were you able to fix it? I'm dying to know!
billbusby said:
Is there any way I can take the phone apart and fix this? I don't think returning the phone is an option since my phone is rooted.
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There's disassembly guides/videos if you want to try, you could search that and just take a look at the mechanism.
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hello,
I got Galaxy Note 3 (N9005) just two months back from Ebay. It was working perfectly since today morning I charged to 86% and unplugged it usually using 2.0 cable to charge the device but now its not powering UP, tried to unplug the battery , sim for several minutes but still the same issue
After plugging the charger again its vibrating every 3-4 seconds and showing battery with grey color and O written inside it after it a wrecked line showing at different points that's crossing the screen just like screen is damaged or OS is boot loop
Trying to power on while the charger is plugged it just show Samsung NOTE 3 screen and sometimes samsung logo gets load with blue LED continuously onn again the battery charging issue
youtube: chvRbwgT9n8 or U5B2By7fGII
but it does not show green battery any more
since its not starting up and only shows activity when its plugged in USB/Wall charger , unable to use it. is there any resolution on this most of the Note 3 users are complaining about the same issue
tried to boot it in recovery mode and restart the device from there but still no success
this issue is occurring for the last 3 hours and i am really annoyed how to resolve this issue
tried USB 3.0 as well with laptop but no success even after 30 minutes
if the battery is drained it should start with the charger plugged in but it isnt starting any more.
**Update
plugged on wall charger
started the mobile with Volume Up+ Power + Home key
erased to factory reset
wipe cache
rebooted
now its passing the samsung logo , annimation and then white Samsung Logo blinking with colors and after that again same battery showing
no custom rom installed on stock version i think its 4.2.2
Could be the battery.
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Rosli59564 said:
Could be the battery.
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Ok but battery was working fine and giving me a complete day with 24 wifi connectivity, emails and all the business apps. Can only purchase battery on Monday after since its public holidays
shrry8 said:
Ok but battery was working fine and giving me a complete day with 24 wifi connectivity, emails and all the business apps. Can only purchase battery on Monday after since its public holidays
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Worth a try. My old note 1 used to operate normally but 1 morning it dead without any sign. Tried to power it on, just bootlooping. Though nowadays phone has far better battery quality but it doesn't means its' 100% perfect.
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Rosli59564 said:
Worth a try. My old note 1 used to operate normally but 1 morning it dead without any sign. Tried to power it on, just bootlooping. Though nowadays phone has far better battery quality but it doesn't means its' 100% perfect.
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It didn't worked out, same issue with a new battery set is not starting with Battery Power only starting up with charger plugged and giving the same battery sign
Still not sure whether its the Hardware or Software issue
shrry8 said:
It didn't worked out, same issue with a new battery set is not starting with Battery Power only starting up with charger plugged and giving the same battery sign
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If you turn it off but with charger power on, is it got charged(based on the battery animation)?.
If it's charged you could try odin back the firmware but if battery is low, then don't as it could brick your phone if it dies during flashing.
Else try to clean the usb port and 3 pins at battery compartment.
Not sure whether this is hardware of software.
Even the switch could cause such problem.
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Rosli59564 said:
If you turn it off but with charger power on, is it got charged(based on the battery animation)?.
If it's charged you could try odin back the firmware but if battery is low, then don't as it could brick your phone if it dies during flashing.
Else try to clean the usb port and 3 pins at battery compartment.
Not sure whether this is hardware of software.
Even the switch could cause such problem.
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its just showing Grey Battery sign and vibrates every 3 seconds if push power button for around 7-10 seconds than samsung screen appear but that it same grey battery over and over again
not sure whether now my previous battery is dead or not
since after installed replacement battery its giving the same issue
sent for repair at a local service center, since out of warranty/ insurance
they are saying its unrepairable
The usb module on the phone is defective. Replace it.
But the phone is in dead state if not plugged in as the battery is showing 55% when installed on another set
I guess you're having this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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Rosli59564 said:
I guess you're having this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
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Some what the same issue, cell phone is showing dead symptoms when not plugged in, not activity what so ever is done to start
but when its plugged in its giving Grey Battery Sign and vibration every 3 seconds
when its power on it does pass the Samsung animation but after that OS is not loaded
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5B2By7fGII
**Update
It's for sure Hardware Issue, checked with different hardware persons and they all agree that its power IC issue that is why its displaying this behaviour
Also tried to load KitKat from Odin but Samsung Galaxy Note 3 logo flashes every 2 second after downloading is complete.