***Anyone help? Strange problems..*** - Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Basically i was out at a nightclub 2 saturdays ago, my drink was spilt down my leg with my phone in the pocket. From the sunday after that my phone has been nothing but a pain in the arse. It charged on/off , while the phone was plugged in it would go down percentage. As well as this, it got the grey battery loop. Recently when i plugged it in, it would just vibrate every 2 or 3 seconds, nothing showing on the screen. So far i have solved the battery problem, i scraped the dust/lint out of the usb port and bent the charging port back into the middle a wee bit.
As well as this, certain apps have stopped working. Facebook wont save photos, snapchat won't load stories, save photos or let me send snaps. Instagram crashes every 2 seconds. All of these work 100% on other devices leading me to beleive its my phone. I have already factory reset it and this did nothing. Does anyone have any ideas? My head's melted. Phone is rooted but standard
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Problem solved. Updated to 4.4.2 and everything is working again. Admin delete please??

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Battery icon has yellow triangle and thermostat icon

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 !!!'
lynzoid said:
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.

Phone possibly dead.

Hello,
Last week I was using my phone as usual, I put it on my desk for about 5 minutes and when I came back it had turned off. I tried putting it on charge but the orange led doesn't show any activity. The phone doesn't turn on and doesn't do anything. I tried booting it on recovery but that didn't do anything else. I also took off the battery and put it back several times.
Help!
rikikimaru said:
Hello,
Last week I was using my phone as usual, I put it on my desk for about 5 minutes and when I came back it had turned off. I tried putting it on charge but the orange led doesn't show any activity. The phone doesn't turn on and doesn't do anything. I tried booting it on recovery but that didn't do anything else. I also took off the battery and put it back several times.
Help!
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try cleaning the battery contacts and also the usb contacts, i had mine where it wouldnt charge all night and died and it was just dust caught on the +5v pin of the usb connector.
There is lost of dust in the usb connector, you should try to clean it. The battery might be dead, you can try to buy another one but...
That didn't work. (does the led light turn on if there is no battery in the phone or it must have one inside?)
It does need to have one inside to lit the led
If you know someone with a DHD, you should try his battery. But your phone is probably dead... Fortunatelly, the GS3 will be announced soon !

[Q] Fixed (not blinking) red light after changing battery

Hi everyone,
a friend of mine's Nexus 4 has this strange behavior.
It went into water for about 1 second: unfortunately, she was working far from home and needed to keep the phone on for working reasons, I know and told her that the best would have been to switch it off and put in a bag of rice.
In any case, after few minutes where she was not able to listen to the people speaking, and the same on the other side (she was not listened), she kept the phone in a pocket and under the sun, and suddenly everything went fine: probably some water in the audio jack made the phone think the earplugs were plugged, and then this was fixed.
In the rest of the day everything was working, and we thought that, thanks to the hot day and the phone under the sun, the humidity has dried up.
At night when she came back home, she switched the phone off and put in the rice for the night.
The day after, she tried to switch the phone on, and nothing happend.
Screen black, no signals.
After reading something on the internet, she plugged the charger, and kept power+volume down buttons pushed: after some time, the red light appears, just one fast blink and then dark again.
So, we ordered a replacement battery (I have already substituted a Nexus 4 battery of another friend of mine), which arrived yesterday. I proceeded with the substitution, everything went fine (and I noticed that the internal water detectors are still perfect white, only the one in the sim tray is pink), but when I plugged the usb charger, again nothing happened. This time, holding power+volume down made the red light appear and stay solid, no blinking, no disappearing, until I unplug the phone, at that moment it disappears.
I let her charge the phone for the whole night, but still the same issue this morning.
What can the problem be?
It sounds strange to me that at first the phone worked and then it stopped at the first switch off (and I think that she powered off and on the phone right after the incident, and was still working) :-\
And I'm not able to understand the red light behavior...can someone help please?
Many many thanks :-[

i9505 Crashes after Display turnes off (happens with every ROM)

Hi everyone,
i have a very strange problem, my Phone crashes after a few Minutes after the Display goes off. This even happens in the Recovery, and with every ROM i tried including stock.
2-3 months ago i had to replace the whole LCD/Touch Front, but after that it worked flawlessly until i left it at a friends house for 2 weeks.
Since i got it back it has this strange problem. He said he did nothing to the phone, there are no visible dents etc.
Last night i plugged in the USB Cable, startet a 24h youtube Video and in the morning it was still playing, i stopped the Movie, the phone Display turned off and 2 Minutes later it had already crashed.
I had to press the Power Button for a few seconds to turn it off. The again to turn it back on.
It seems to crash when the power consumption goes down, e.g. when listening to Music in the background it took a 1/2 h for it to crash instead of 1-2 Minutes.
Could this be the battery even though i can still play movies for hours on one charge?
Btw, the Battery still locks normal.
It's definitely hardware related, but not the battery. A faulty CPU is a possibility but I'm only guessing. You should have the service center look at it.
Try rising the min cpu frequency and see if there is any change.
Or maybe you're friend (who claims that he didn't do anything)is lying to you and did something (idk) maybe the first two reply may help
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thanks for the replies,
i tried rising the min core freq. step by step, sadly to no avail.
the phone is out of warranty and i did the screen replacement myself, so no Service
maybe i should try to remove all the unnecessary modules like speaker; Sensors etc...
I'm still not convinced that it's SoC related since it masters every Benchmark Marathon
but maybe it's just time for an new phone
hi guys, me again
i'm just posting this for archiving purposes
I just disconnected part after part until it stopped crashing...
So i found out that the culprit was the USB Charging Connector Dock/Flex Cable.
I already replaced it and now everything is working again
madm03 said:
hi guys, me again
i'm just posting this for archiving purposes
I just disconnected part after part until it stopped crashing...
So i found out that the culprit was the USB Charging Connector Dock/Flex Cable.
I already replaced it and now everything is working again
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I am glad to hear that you have worked it out?
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Charging Issue

I just got my device and of course I was intrigued by its water resistance so I tested it out. After a couple of hours, I went to charge it and I got a moisture warning: saying that for my safety, since there was moisture in the Type-C port, the device would not charge. I dried it out as best as I could and then rebooted my device and now when I go to plug it in, it spazzes out and charges and stops repeatedly and makes the charging noise constantly. I haven't tried to let it dry overnight yet, but I'm just putting this thread out there to see if anyone has any tips, besides not dunking my phone underwater, or if anyone else has experienced this too.
The S7 has this feature. Let it sit in rice or silica. Turn it off for the night.
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Jooosty said:
The S7 has this feature. Let it sit in rice or silica. Turn it off for the night.
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It doesn't give me the moisture warning anymore though, it just charges and stops charging rapidly.
RMA it. IP68 means 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes...if it wonks out with less than that, its defective.
I had my S7 Edge underwater for over an hour at the pool last summer, trying to see if I could drown it, and it held up like a champ.
bigmikey307 said:
I just got my device and of course I was intrigued by its water resistance so I tested it out. After a couple of hours, I went to charge it and I got a moisture warning: saying that for my safety, since there was moisture in the Type-C port, the device would not charge. I dried it out as best as I could and then rebooted my device and now when I go to plug it in, it spazzes out and charges and stops repeatedly and makes the charging noise constantly. I haven't tried to let it dry overnight yet, but I'm just putting this thread out there to see if anyone has any tips, besides not dunking my phone underwater, or if anyone else has experienced this too.
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That's disturbing. I'm going to test mine.
Any updates?
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After a day, it's working now. Thank goodness for its amazing battery life. But, I found another charging issue, check out my new thread.
Same issue with me. And I didn't find any solution for that yet.
Hope now your mobile will be ok, if not then first you need to put it on service center they will suggest you better idea.
My phone hasn't been anywhere near water and I haven't been able to charge my phone (unless I turn it off) due to the moisture warning. Before this warning started to appear my phone started rapidly making the noise the phone makes when plugging in in and flashing the usb notification even though I wasn't plugging it in. It was super annoying because it did it every second for a long time. That has since stopped but everytime I try to plug it in I get the moisture in charging port notification.
Same situation here. I tried to put G6 in a rice over night, without help.
Also I put my device on a coffee machine several hours to get rid of "phantom moisture", without any results at all. I think it's now software related problem.
By the way i can't charge my battery over 50%, to charge it until 50% I need to restart device with attached USB. By the way notification with vibration effect every second is freaking me out.
If someone find any solution please share...
vintagerock said:
My phone hasn't been anywhere near water and I haven't been able to charge my phone (unless I turn it off) due to the moisture warning. Before this warning started to appear my phone started rapidly making the noise the phone makes when plugging in in and flashing the usb notification even though I wasn't plugging it in. It was super annoying because it did it every second for a long time. That has since stopped but everytime I try to plug it in I get the moisture in charging port notification.
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Exact same thing happened to me. Some night the bogus moisture warning would interrupt the charging that had started.
By luck and coincedence, I had a wireless charger at work,. and have just received 2 more for home from a woot deal.
If it wasnt for them I'd be screwed.
I took a chance on LG this time. Never again.
Took this without a case on in the pool, clearly lol no issues at all. Yes at 1st it did tell me moisture present. But I didn't need to charge. Later before charging I did take a air can and blow out the port just to be safe and all was fine.
My G6 was submerged for about 5 seconds, and this about a month ago, but now every time I go to charge it, it says that charging is blocked due to moisture detection. I have a feeling that it being hot and humid out and it being in my pocket doesn't help. I need to reboot the phone, and it will usually start charging after several attempts. Haven't tried leaving it in rice yet, but will give it a shot.
Had the same issue as the OP. The only sure fire way I have been able to get my phone to not pop the moisture message and charge is to plug in the phone, and reboot leaving the phone plugged in. It works every time so far.
Software issue?
I have started to suffer the same exact issue LG G6 and I've also not brought the phone anywhere near water or moisture. I also found the charging workaround, charging they phone while it is off. So I leaning towards agreeing it's a software issue, could it be from installing something like Avast? that's the only application I've installed recently that I can recall.
Possibly Solved
Have had the same issue since this last update that was pushed out. Let me ask everyone. Did the "Hi Security" app come on your G6 as well??? I cleared the cache on the app and have not had the issue come back so far. Like everyone else here, I've tried EVERYTHING!!! But this seems to be holding.
possible solution
Hi all,
I think I have found a solution that is working for me. Maybe others can give it a go and see if this is a work around?
For me, as a developer I had DEVELOPER MODE set to on and when plugging in a USB cable to the computer, I had set the default option to always go to "File Transfer". I changed this back to just "Charging" as always and now my phone doesn't seem to have that annoying moisture warning when I go to charge my phone.
Can anyone else give it a go?
thanks!
jspectre07 said:
I have started to suffer the same exact issue LG G6 and I've also not brought the phone anywhere near water or moisture. I also found the charging workaround, charging they phone while it is off. So I leaning towards agreeing it's a software issue, could it be from installing something like Avast? that's the only application I've installed recently that I can recall.
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Still seeing this issue and I don't have Avast on my phone. My guess is that it the software for the sensor is overly aggressive or not clearing the flag when you do get some moisture in there.
I have been probing testing this issue and found if I also plug the phone in very slowly sometimes it works fine. Only about 50% of the time though. Its weird. The plug it in and reboot method works pretty much every time.
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jspectre07 said:
I have started to suffer the same exact issue LG G6 and I've also not brought the phone anywhere near water or moisture. I also found the charging workaround, charging they phone while it is off. So I leaning towards agreeing it's a software issue, could it be from installing something like Avast? that's the only application I've installed recently that I can recall.
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jspectre07 said:
Hi all,
I think I have found a solution that is working for me. Maybe others can give it a go and see if this is a work around?
For me, as a developer I had DEVELOPER MODE set to on and when plugging in a USB cable to the computer, I had set the default option to always go to "File Transfer". I changed this back to just "Charging" as always and now my phone doesn't seem to have that annoying moisture warning when I go to charge my phone.
Can anyone else give it a go?
thanks!
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Giving this a try will let you know how it works for me!
It's definitely a software issue
I posted that after clearing the cache on "HiSecurity." The error seemed to stop popping up. So I dug in deeper. I can't find where to get to developer mode. I hope someone can share that process??
However in the meantime, I went to Apps, View System Apps(The upper right corner 3 dots), Special Access, Modify System Settings, Go down to LG System Server, tap, and select "no" for the write system settings.
Also under "show system" you can scroll down to "LG System Server", tap. tap "notifications", and finally tap "silent"
This will at least get rid of the annoying vibration every few seconds along with the sound. It does not however completely get rid of the "moisture in charge port" message when plugging in charger.
We need to find out what it was from the last system update, caused this issue, that is exactly when it started on mine and many other people. It's not hardware, software is what we need to be trying to filter out.

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