Weird question: how can i shorten the life of the device? - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

So I have a note 3 n9005 that is two years old. When I bought it I purchased 2 years of extra waranty (so I had 4 years in total) which also gave me premium service. Means that whenever my phone gets defective and I go for a warranty repair, if they do not fix my phone in 5 business days I get all my money back (the initial price I paid back in 2014). I updated to a s7 edge and gave the note to my girlfriend, but I didn't take good care of the phone: the chrome bezel is all washed out, the screen has a few micro scratches etc. So I'm thinking of intentionally shortening the life of the phone somehow. Apart from the battery, the phone still works like new and it still performs very decently compared to today's standards (kudos to samsung for this durable phone lol).
So is there anything I can do to "brake" my phone, but it would still be covered by warranty?
I'm thinking of running a very intensive app non stop while keeping it charging. Maybe excesive heat will do the job in a week or so...

If it's an accidental warranty, you can always drop the phone and tell them that you accidentally dropped it . OR you can try Hard Bricking the phone after rooting and flashing some wrong bootloader through odin so that the phone doesnt even boot up. After that, just tell the warranty guys that phone suddenly stopped working.

aneeshprasobhan said:
If it's an accidental warranty, you can always drop the phone and tell them that you accidentally dropped it . OR you can try Hard Bricking the phone after rooting and flashing some wrong bootloader through odin so that the phone doesnt even boot up. After that, just tell the warranty guys that phone suddenly stopped working.
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It's not accidental warranty, it's like a normal warranty just extended for two more years. Won't a brick of any kind leave any signs that it was rooted, or the software was changed? If they find out its my fault they'll likely reject the waranty.

lvnatic said:
It's not accidental warranty, it's like a normal warranty just extended for two more years. Won't a brick of any kind leave any signs that it was rooted, or the software was changed? If they find out its my fault they'll likely reject the waranty.
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I accidentally emmc bricked my Note 1 [N7000] before warranty expired, and the phone didnt show any boot screen in any way (Completely dead). And the guys at Samsung changed motherboard (i think). But I was lucky in my case.
I have a better solution to your bezel paint peel off problem. Just buy this case, its really awesome and it covers the bezel and replaces the lame old battery cover with pure aluminium .
Kommandant Case
Or you can use any other case for that matter. In the case of micro scratches on the screen. Suck it up bro, its just micro. : )

Does anyone know how to hardbrick this device without leaving a trace that it was rooted?

Since this thread is basically about committing fraud, I'm afraid it will have to go.
Thread closed.

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Should I Bother Trying HC for Repair?

Ok So I sent my HC H2 off under warranty to HC as I had lots of white marks on the screen display when surfing the net. They didn't repair it and said it would cost £198 to fix even though apart from seeing the spots mainly only a white back ground the phone was actaully in perfect working order and it cost me £20 to get it back. Now the ouchscreen has gone just suddenly and am debating on sending it back again. Now the postive thoughts from me is that if it is under warranty then they surely have to fix me phone for free. But my negative thoughts are they will just try to charge me for the repair or charge me £20 just to get my phone back. What would you do?
I get get the unit to turn on I can take calls using the buttons on the bottom but cannot use the touchscreen so can#t unlock it or do anything else with it. The phone is perfect never been near water and never been dropped.
Did you forget to remove hspl and return it to stock before you sent it to them? That voids warranty and makes the repair chargeable.
Yes sorry forgot to mention that I had indeed removed it and put the stock raido rom and removed HSPL. I assumed that the white marks were deemed as cosmetic but i will never know as I didn't get a report just an email with a link saying pay £198 for a repair or £20 to have it sent back unrepaired. I think if they don't fix it this time under warranty I will take them to the small claims court if needed.
hmm, could be water marks? is the water damage indicator red or white? if its even slightly pink, they wont cover it. Best of luck arguing your case.
water damage indicator red or white? It's never been near water opened the back can see a white circle looking sticker near top left if thats it?
There are 2 water markers i understand, and regardless of how close the phone may have been, it they says its water damage there is no movement from HTC on this
Sadly your best bet would have been to get full details of the issue before it was sent back. I suspect that it wil;l cost you the £200 to get it repaired.
You could replace it yourself for much less - if you have the skills as it not easy to do imho, or try the repair company's that advertise in the Sunday papers.
If it was mine, I'd have paid the first time
If you are good at following instructions, then you could probably replace the touchscreen and get it working. There's several disassembly videos on YouTube. Beware, the HD2 is a beast to take apart. There's several fragile ribbon cables that are extremely easy to tear, and many XDA users have made their phones worst off trying this. I mean, you could almost get a good condition HD2 for the 200 pounds HTC is trying to charge you.
Well it's good news, After 10 days of not hearing anything had a call to sall repair is being done under warranty and as a good will gesture of the delay they are going to email a link for all the accessories available for the phone that they sell and I can have anything up to the value of £50! I am well happy and this has restored my faith in HTC
Thats good news :0
The delays in UK HTC repairs have been up to 6 weeks and have been reported by the bbc

My touchscreen died today - any warranty advice?

So as the title suggests, today my touchscreen stopped working . Inspecting it with a torch, it appear the flex cable between the screen and body may have slipped out.
So first things first - will flashing back to stock froyo with my original SBF using RSD lite remove all evidence of root/custom rom/over clock?
Secondly, has anyone ever experienced warranty claims with Motorola, and how did it go for you? Was it simple enough or did they give you grief throughout the whole process?
Thirdly, I have quite a few scuffs scratches in small dents around the corners etc. Does anyone have reason to believe that they would right it off as neglect damage? (even though it is just average wear and tear for the 10/11 months i've had it)
Lastly, if any of you have made a warranty claim, what servicing did it include? I am wondering if it will be fully factory refurbished - had my iPhone 3g sent off 3 times on insurance claim back in the day, and every time it would return sparkling with new casing. One could argue that the deterioration of the casing and slide chassis is the cause for the flex to come out, due to how old and loose it is getting; so I hope that if I were to make a successful claim, they would replace my sad old casing yet I wonder if they offer the same service as apple at moto. Or was your main issue in your claim the only thing fixed?
Thanks in advance for any who can give me some advice .
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So as a quick update, flashing to stock froyo fixed it. Or so I thought, moments later it was dead again, it must have just been sitting in the right place to work briefly.
I'm pretty devo, cause it's gonna be a while till I can send it, and with all the public holidays and mail congestion from christmas, the postage is going to take ages. Then who knows how moto will go with it. bleehhh..

S7 Edge dead screen.. No reply from Samsung

So my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge broke after 3 months, I got it the day it came out in the UK. At first I opened Snapchat then all of a sudden a third of the screen went pink and flickery, so I contacted samsung and they said do a factory reset and get back to them.
This did nothing, so I went to contact Samsung again and whilst I was contacting them the screen completely went so it was sent off to Anovo I got an email with a image of my Micro USB port saying....
“We have located damage on your device and this damage is not covered under the manufacturer’s warranty.
Our engineers have found liquid damage and are therefore unable to further assess any faults you were experiencing.
Please see attached a picture of the damage.
This damage is considered too severe for us to proceed, and classes your product as Beyond Economical Repair. (BER)”
I've never put my phone in water as I've never wanted to risk it but it has been exposed to a bit of rain (the weather hasn't been the best in the UK). I phoned Anovo to find out what was going on. The man on the phone told me exactly what the email said, and when I went on to say “I thought it was water resistant” he put me on hold to speak to someone. He then came back and said the engineers found water in the charging port but didn't say how it got there and also didn't tell me why the water sensor in the USB port didn't work to prevent it from happening, I don't know if a message pops up on your phone when you try and charge it when it's wet or not warning you but if there is one then I've never seen it.
But what's even stranger to me is that the phone still functions, it charges, it vibrates for notifications and the little light comes on, it makes sounds when you press the volume buttons, you can double tap the home button and it opens the camera, you can press the volume buttons to take pictures. So I feel like it's not as broken as I'm being told. I've made a lot of phone calls, sent a formal letter and 2 emails starting on Friday 13th (when I got the email from Anovo) and I am still yet to hear anything back!
I can't post links yet so can't attach the youtube video and image
Just posting this to warn people that the S7e might not be as waterproof as they make out and I wanted to see if anyone else has had any similar problems and could please help!
My first S7 Edge screen was faulty aswell, screen gives purple smudges and streaking black when swiped, sent it my mobile provider and was too severe to fix, so I got a replacement.
here in Australia the mobile service providers have to provide warranty to the life of the 2 year contract and we have tough warranty laws to protect consumers from these kinds of problems.
Could you attach some image or video?
You can try post the URL like "google[dot]com" or something like this if you can't directly post URL.
Hey, I have somewhat the same problem as you, My phone suddenly didn't show anything anymore, as if the screen was off. but everything still worked. So my screen is dead but not the touchscreen/anything else. and it's really annoing, also have not been in touch with water, and the waterdetection thing in the microSD tray is clearly still totally clean. so it can't be water. gonna send my phone off to repair monday and hope they are nicer than you'r provider...
I lost a 3 day old S7 edge to a total water damage. I placed it in a bowl of water ... anyways, they claim it's IP87 so the phone should handle this.
This phone isnt waterproof, or at least not mine, but my provider says "following up to our test we performed with the given device its still waterproof" and so the warranty is just void.
They asked me if I submerged the phone with the SIM-tray open. Or, they claimed, as its obviously the only way for water to get into. (...)
I have a IT diploma so that is just nothing Im evening considering discussing.
Its with a lawyer now and everybody should be very aware about this situation and how Samsung defines IP87
Komaandy
Here a couple of official Italian Samsung S7 & S7E advertisements with their water resistance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S82LRydTWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXX3w6wJioI
Then my S7E must be able to do the same without damages! Or Samsung is lying...
Jomari29 said:
My first S7 Edge screen was faulty aswell, screen gives purple smudges and streaking black when swiped, sent it my mobile provider and was too severe to fix, so I got a replacement.
here in Australia the mobile service providers have to provide warranty to the life of the 2 year contract and we have tough warranty laws to protect consumers from these kinds of problems.
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Oh really need to move to Australia haha. I have found that because my phone is less then 6 months old then they have to prove that the fault wasn't with the phone when I brought it
NonXtreme said:
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You can try post the URL like "google[dot]com" or something like this if you can't directly post URL.
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Yeah can do
youtu[dot]be/s5J9dzpMyrQ this is before the screen went
youtu[dot]be/LTCr4Lt7riw this proves it still functions
goo[dot]gl/mg8FDS image that I was sent by A Novo
donoboy97 said:
Hey, I have somewhat the same problem as you, My phone suddenly didn't show anything anymore, as if the screen was off. but everything still worked. So my screen is dead but not the touchscreen/anything else. and it's really annoing, also have not been in touch with water, and the waterdetection thing in the microSD tray is clearly still totally clean. so it can't be water. gonna send my phone off to repair monday and hope they are nicer than you'r provider...
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Sorry to hear that bud! Yeah I checked mine too and it's still white! let me know how you get on, good luck!
Komaandy said:
I lost a 3 day old S7 edge to a total water damage. I placed it in a bowl of water ... anyways, they claim it's IP87 so the phone should handle this.
This phone isnt waterproof, or at least not mine, but my provider says "following up to our test we performed with the given device its still waterproof" and so the warranty is just void.
They asked me if I submerged the phone with the SIM-tray open. Or, they claimed, as its obviously the only way for water to get into. (...)
I have a IT diploma so that is just nothing Im evening considering discussing.
Its with a lawyer now and everybody should be very aware about this situation and how Samsung defines IP87
Komaandy
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Sounds like a lot of people are having problems with the "water-resistance". Let us know how it goes, good luck
themissionimpossible said:
Here a couple of official Italian Samsung S7 & S7E advertisements with their water resistance...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S82LRydTWE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXX3w6wJioI
Then my S7E must be able to do the same without damages! Or Samsung is lying...
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Yeah they are similar to ones here in the UK! I've seen ones with lil Wayne pouring champagne over it and putting it in a fish tank too...
Komaandy said:
I lost a 3 day old S7 edge to a total water damage. I placed it in a bowl of water ... anyways, they claim it's IP87 so the phone should handle this.
This phone isnt waterproof, or at least not mine, but my provider says "following up to our test we performed with the given device its still waterproof" and so the warranty is just void.
They asked me if I submerged the phone with the SIM-tray open. Or, they claimed, as its obviously the only way for water to get into. (...)
I have a IT diploma so that is just nothing Im evening considering discussing.
Its with a lawyer now and everybody should be very aware about this situation and how Samsung defines IP87
Komaandy
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I thought the IP rating was IP68?
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/smartphones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s7/design/
Still, it should withstand upto 1.5M for 30mins as per the above link.
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trickie69r said:
I thought the IP rating was IP68?
Still, it should withstand upto 1.5M for 30mins as per the above link.
Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk
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Yes, sorry, my bad. Stupid typo. IP87 doesnt even exist...
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calum1904 said:
Oh really need to move to Australia haha. I have found that because my phone is less then 6 months old then they have to prove that the fault wasn't with the phone when I brought it
Yeah can do
goo[dot]gl/mg8FDS image that I was sent by A Novo
Sorry to hear that bud! Yeah I checked mine too and it's still white! let me know how you get on, good luck!
Sounds like a lot of people are having problems with the "water-resistance". Let us know how it goes, good luck
Yeah they are similar to ones here in the UK! I've seen ones with lil Wayne pouring champagne over it and putting it in a fish tank too...
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The fact is that IF something happens, they just claim its your fault, because (!sic) you probably didnt keep the Simslot properly tightly closed(!sic). End of story for Samsung.
My S7E have this exact same problem before (glitch screen then went completely black screen but everything else work including touch screen) and It was fixed by just a screen replacement by local Samsung service centre under the warranty. I live in Thailand by the way.
I don't think it's water damaged. I did put my phone underwater before but there's nothing wrong with it. The water damage indicator didn't turn red either which indicated no water entered the phone.
I think it's just faulty screen batch and the affected device is among the early batch S7E.
Anovo is the one who run the Samsung service centre, right?
If so, I think Anovo is just being irresponsible.
I see nothing in the image they sent. I can't see anything indicate that the phone was water damaged. It also too blurry to see anything else.
Also from what I thought, since the phone is water resistance showing the image of outside the phone shouldn't be able to tell anything about water damage since it's the part that won't get or allow the phone to get water damaged. If they really wanted to show the damage, they must show the component inside the phone that get damaged.
In conclusion, the image they sent is nonsense and useless.
I'm not sure but maybe filing a lawsuit can help you.
Hello all!
I got the same problem. My screen has now a big lign without pixels and the screen is blinking a lot.
I've bought it in belgium at Mediamarkt. I'll go today to post it to repair. I hope that I'll not take too long before get my repair.
I never try to put it in the water or anything like that. It's protected by a Spigen Case and the phone is perfect not even a single scratch on it or the screen.
I cross my finger also because I've root it so I hope that they not tell me that I lost my warranty for a hardware problem!
Thanks!
Pierrick
Hi,
I have started to reading a lot and see that in my screen edges the touch is not so sensitive. It fails a lot of times.
And 3 or 4 times i have the turning on settings and apps by it self.
I have to reboot.
Im on btu latest version.

How to totally kill my S7 edge?

Hi team. My S7 edge has been rooted plenty of times, tons of custom roms, etc etc. I have owned the phone for 23 months now. The battery is dying, home button peeled, usb dropping connection, and I just found warranty card stating that is still one month under warranty. But due to rooting havoc I inflicted to my phone, knox is deeply tripped. I am trying to find a way to break my phone so badly that it is not even possible to go to download mode so that the service centre cannot check knox status.
Any ideas? Removing cable while flashing bootloader? Undercharging the battery to kill it? Did anyone try?
extract sboot.bin from firmware and flash it with odin very quickly, when it is in middle or between flashing remove the cable immediately and hopefully your phone will die repeat this again and again also try with cm.bin too. You have to hard brick your phone don't try to damage battery or break anything physically it will void your warranty straight away.
PS: I think knox will show tripped if they did't replaced the motherboard and used another method to flash it and you have to blame them that they did it not you.:victory::victory:
It seems to be difficult to hard brick the phone. I tried many times - in Odin, I selected BL button, selected the BL archive from stock firmware, then during flashing I was disconnecting the phone. I tried it several times at several stages of flashing (once i hit the sboot.bin) but the download mode still works and displays warranty void 1. I can't kill off that download mode. I am starting to worry that it is hardcoded into some ROM module that just cannot be written and so it is running from hardware. This factory flashing through odin is doing everything with NAND memory that is read-writable but it looks that the download mode "partition" is not writable at all. Despite I break bootloader or whatever else, i just cannot destroy download mode, hence it is impossible to hard brick the phone. I was thinking of overclocking the CPU to destroy it but i think it would be too obvious.
If you are based in the EU, then Samsung needs to repair under warranty regardless whether you have rooted your phone or not.
Darkjamzi said:
If you are based in the EU, then Samsung needs to repair under warranty regardless whether you have rooted your phone or not.
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Well, I am based in EU. Can you support your statement by any source?
Anyway I flashed stock rom and brought it to the carrier's store for repair. Let's see.
wratnik said:
Well, I am based in EU. Can you support your statement by any source?
Anyway I flashed stock rom and brought it to the carrier's store for repair. Let's see.
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Well, it is the law...... a vendor can't just invalidate your statutory warranty, because they don't like what you did........
https://www.piana.eu/root/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1998801
https://www.xda-developers.com/xda-external-link/rooting-cannot-legally-void-your-warranty/
If they refuse (which they probably will) take them to court. Just to be clear, you need to take whoever supplied the phone to court, as you'll have warranty with them.
wratnik said:
Hi team. My S7 edge has been rooted plenty of times, tons of custom roms, etc etc. I have owned the phone for 23 months now. The battery is dying, home button peeled, usb dropping connection, and I just found warranty card stating that is still one month under warranty. But due to rooting havoc I inflicted to my phone, knox is deeply tripped. I am trying to find a way to break my phone so badly that it is not even possible to go to download mode so that the service centre cannot check knox status.
Any ideas? Removing cable while flashing bootloader? Undercharging the battery to kill it? Did anyone try?
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Use a USB killer. Simple.
how about give it to somebody who really could use a phone?
Put 12v ping from old pc psu on usb 5v and +data (red and green wire in cable) rail ,it will kill it,work with my old LG G4 whenn LG wont replace via rma screen with red retentions,fry it on 12v for few miliseconds do not for longer time or will be start smoking
Hello all, just an update,
they totally repaired my phone, no questions asked. Replaced the battery, entire front panel with screen, home button, and they even replaced the chassis (metal frame) so it looks like new. A pity that the back cover remained old, scratched.
Samsung rulez.
wratnik said:
Hello all, just an update,
they totally repaired my phone, no questions asked. Replaced the battery, entire front panel with screen, home button, and they even replaced the chassis (metal frame) so it looks like new. A pity that the back cover remained old, scratched.
Samsung rulez.
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Just wondering if it's still waterproof
Aashish.007 said:
Use a USB killer. Simple.
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At most, all he will accomplish with an USB Killer stick is to fry the contacts on the USB port if it's not securely plugged in. The S7 is immune to the USB killer stick.
Seicer said:
Just wondering if it's still waterproof
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I confirm it's waterproof as before. Since repair, I had it with me several times in wellness tub, sauna, jacuzzi (warm water - more risk to "loosen" the adhesive), also took some slo-mo videos during water sliding and there is no sign of water / drops / mist in the phone. I am taking it to the sea in 3 weeks (for the 3rd summer in a row). The phone is holding together like new. It also suffered a few drops - no damage.
Just a note - USB charging is not working several hours after bath. It must dry completely. So bring a wireless charger if you plan to bathe with your s7 edge.
The best phone in my life. It's so durable. Although.. note 8 would be a nice upgrade
I have been using my phone for 2 years last month I thought will replace battery, in local Samsung shop battery replacement cost £60 together with the battery but I thought I will try it myself. Bought battery for £20
Few tools to open the phone, hair dryer. Tube of silicone, double sided tape.
Local shops are filled up with spare parts for s7 edge back plate motherboards etc and they're cheap in case if I damaged anything.
It took me around 2 hours to replace the battery and haven't damaged anything, was thinking will test if my phone is still waterproof. Well Samsung says originally I can put my phone underwater 0.5m deep for 30 min and it should still work.
I did extended water resistance test. Used fishing rod and there's lake just behind my house. Attached my phone and dropped it I think around 4m deep and went back home and came back in the evening around 8 hours later thinking either fish ate my phone or surely it died, pulled it back and there were few messages on the screen, someone texted me while my phone was on the bottom of the lake.
I guess I have waterproofed my phone better than Samsung
wratnik said:
Hello all, just an update,
they totally repaired my phone, no questions asked. Replaced the battery, entire front panel with screen, home button, and they even replaced the chassis (metal frame) so it looks like new. A pity that the back cover remained old, scratched.
Samsung rulez.
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The back glass is extremely easy to repair though, I'd know since i've replaced it myself on my S7E about 5 times now. Usually a new OEM glass battery cover replacement only costs about 20 bucks.
S7 edge
Hello I'm in the same situation and i am based in the eu to do i still have to hard brick the device or just send it to samsung thanks in advance
Thijs
no need to hard brick, just send it as is.
wratnik said:
no need to hard brick, just send it as is.
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Thanks for replying so fast, I'll post an update about the "possible" repair of my device!
Hello, did they change your motherboard and knox is 0 now or you received it with same motherboard with knox 1 ?
Microwave? Cook some chips..

BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH PHONE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY

G900V KLTE - BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH PHONE DIES UNEXPECTEDLY!!! (new battery)
Still having a problem with black screen of death. I had made a post about it earlier in the week but no response. I have kept everything basically the same, except I use Magisk 21.4-23 (newest), and TWRP 3.5.2 upgraded from 3.5.0 like maybe a couple months ago. Ever since last month have had the problem. I have brand new batteries installed as I thought maybe that was what was causing it (previous experience). Screen goes black, phone vibrates a couple times, then I have to battery pull to try to power on. Sometimes it works, other times it doesnt. In other instances have had screen freeze and get all static and soft reboot itself. I can see the white captive touch buttons working and sound but screen does not wake. Battery pulls for X amount of time does not solve the screen issue. I have flashed correct firmware several times in ODIN. I had this black screen issue and phone died while at the store earlier today. I need a phone thats dependable! This has been happening on any custom roms I use 14.1-18.1. I'm so frustrated I nearly broke my phone in half last night!
Any ideas what's causing the screen issue?
I had a very similar problem on my Galaxy S7. It used to suddenly shutdown, sometimes reboots by itself. Sometimes it won't just turn on at all except after some time.
Sometimes, it vibrates, shows the bootsplash for a few milliseconds, then shutdown.
What a coincidence that when I upgraded to TWRP 3.5, it was when the problem started to hit.
I was using crDroid based on R, It wasn't stable, so I thought the problem was the ROM/Kernel/Recovery. I tried an already known stable ROM.
The same thing happened, then I was semi sure that it is on hardware problem. I teared the device apart. The problem was .. Water Damage.
I thought the phone was water proof/resistant. What a disappointment. Anyway I've cleaned every molecules of water from the phone. It worked fine afterwards.
But I lost the battery percentage diode or something, so the phone can't read battery percentage/voltage.
It took me 3 months to know all these things. I hope it be of help to you.
Mohamedkam000 said:
I had a very similar problem on my Galaxy S7. It used to suddenly shutdown, sometimes reboots by itself. Sometimes it won't just turn on at all except after some time.
Sometimes, it vibrates, shows the bootsplash for a few milliseconds, then shutdown.
What a coincidence that when I upgraded to TWRP 3.5, it was when the problem started to hit.
I was using crDroid based on R, It wasn't stable, so I thought the problem was the ROM/Kernel/Recovery. I tried an already known stable ROM.
The same thing happened, then I was semi sure that it is on hardware problem. I teared the device apart. The problem was .. Water Damage.
I thought the phone was water proof/resistant. What a disappointment. Anyway I've cleaned every molecules of water from the phone. It worked fine afterwards.
But I lost the battery percentage diode or something, so the phone can't read battery percentage/voltage.
It took me 3 months to know all these things. I hope it be of help to you.
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So I did some more testing tonight. I first downgraded TWRP to 3.5.0 from 3.5.2 had same issues. Now i'm on 3.4.0, and I pounded on the display upside down while in recovery. It did the reboot thing and screen went black. Phone would not power up, even after removing and re-installing batteries. It has taken several tries with and without plugging it in. Finally it has booted up and I went into recovery to re-flash yet another rom. The phone would do the black screen thing at random and have issues if placed down too hard.
Obviously it's not software related it's hardware.
So my question is the display bad or the motherboard?
Should I just look into getting a 5G brand new phone or try to get it repaired somewhere?
I've been considering switching to T-mobile once I get a 5G device.
Droid9684 said:
So I did some more testing tonight. I first downgraded TWRP to 3.5.0 from 3.5.2 had same issues. Now i'm on 3.4.0, and I pounded on the display upside down while in recovery. It did the reboot thing and screen went black. Phone would not power up, even after removing and re-installing batteries. It has taken several tries with and without plugging it in. Finally it has booted up and I went into recovery to re-flash yet another rom. The phone would do the black screen thing at random and have issues if placed down too hard.
Obviously it's not software related it's hardware.
So my question is the display bad or the motherboard?
Should I just look into getting a 5G brand new phone or try to get it repaired somewhere?
I've been considering switching to T-mobile once I get a 5G device.
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That's obviously water damage. I used to get all that on my old S7. It is fixable, you need to untie your motherboard, heat it till it literally dries up. Then it won't repeat that BSOD thing.
However, if you tried to boot the device while there's still some water, it will cause more damage to the components, diodes.
Galaxy S5 is for about 40$ in my country. You should consider buying another, more recent phone. Midrange 5G phones are for about 250$ - 400$ here. Though I still miss 2014 phones.
Mohamedkam000 said:
That's obviously water damage. I used to get all that on my old S7. It is fixable, you need to untie your motherboard, heat it till it literally dries up. Then it won't repeat that BSOD thing.
However, if you tried to boot the device while there's still some water, it will cause more damage to the components, diodes.
Galaxy S5 is for about 40$ in my country. You should consider buying another, more recent phone. Midrange 5G phones are for about 250$ - 400$ here. Though I still miss 2014 phones.
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I have no idea how to untie a motherboard or take apart my phone. I'm sure I'd end up doing more damage to it knowing my luck. I have no such tools either to take my phone apart. I've seen S5 for sale here in US for $50 or less and motherboards for a little less. Right now it's hard to afford a brand new 5G phone.
I'm not sure how my phone got water damage? I've always been careful with it over the years never submerged or anything.
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I have no idea how to untie a motherboard or take apart my phone. I'm sure I'd end up doing more damage to it knowing my luck. I have no such tools either to take my phone apart. I've seen S5 for sale here in US for $50 or less and motherboards for a little less. Right now it's hard to afford a brand new 5G phone.
I'm not sure how my phone got water damage? I've always been careful with it over the years never submerged or anything.
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Water Damage usually shows a few days up to a few weeks after it's interaction with water. I thought S7 was water resistant.
A tiny drop of water can cause this issue.
Don't know why people rush towards 5G phones, knowing it ain't stable just yet. I've heard USA is shutting down 2G/3G, so the least you should own is a Dual-VoLTE device. I got A70 for ~162$.
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Water Damage usually shows a few days up to a few weeks after it's interaction with water. I thought S7 was water resistant.
A tiny drop of water can cause this issue.
Don't know why people rush towards 5G phones, knowing it ain't stable just yet. I've heard USA is shutting down 2G/3G, so the least you should own is a Dual-VoLTE device. I got A70 for ~162$.
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Yes 3G has been getting shutdown. 5G is still building out the network. If I were to stay with 4G I might as well stick with S5 since I know it and all my data is saved with titanium backup.
I have read to soak my phone in isopropyl alcohol for up to a couple hours. https://www.orduh.com/water-damaged-samsung-galaxy-s5/
It might be cheaper for me to just find another S5 right now. Can I restore backed up titanium data to a different phone?
I got this phone back in 2015 off eBay after my developer edition SD card slot was broken. Near the front camera it looked like some sort of damage may have occurred after I had received the phone. But I didn't have any of these problems other than a few years ago the BSOD once in awhile which went away.
Currently the BSOD issues have been since earlier this month/last month. As long as I don't put my phone down on table or hit it too hard it has no issue. If it's placed on table as gentle as a feather it's fine. But I have to do lot of battery pulls when I'm out doing errands walking with it.
And screen takes forever to wake when receiving phone calls sometimes I miss them. It's very delayed.
Droid9684 said:
Yes 3G has been getting shutdown. 5G is still building out the network. If I were to stay with 4G I might as well stick with S5 since I know it and all my data is saved with titanium backup.
I have read to soak my phone in isopropyl alcohol for up to a couple hours. https://www.orduh.com/water-damaged-samsung-galaxy-s5/
It might be cheaper for me to just find another S5 right now. Can I restore backed up titanium data to a different phone?
I got this phone back in 2015 off eBay after my developer edition SD card slot was broken. Near the front camera it looked like some sort of damage may have occurred after I had received the phone. But I didn't have any of these problems other than a few years ago the BSOD once in awhile which went away.
Currently the BSOD issues have been since earlier this month/last month. As long as I don't put my phone down on table or hit it too hard it has no issue. If it's placed on table as gentle as a feather it's fine. But I have to do lot of battery pulls when I'm out doing errands walking with it.
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So I looked at the water damage indicator sensor. My phone's patch is still white with a reddish x pattern, there is no water damage. If there was damage it would be all red.
There's no other explanation for BSOD the way you described except for damaged components, unless the phone was water damaged, it must have received a very hard hit.
That hit will definitely affect the screen, if the phone was refurbished, you won't notice it, cause the motherboard is connected to a good working device.
If you think it is software, there's bootloader, baseband, kernel, and system that you can change to confirm your thoughts.
It's very easy to untie S5, only needs one tool.
Mohamedkam000 said:
There's no other explanation for BSOD the way you described except for damaged components, unless the phone was water damaged, it must have received a very hard hit.
That hit will definitely affect the screen, if the phone was refurbished, you won't notice it, cause the motherboard is connected to a good working device.
If you think it is software, there's bootloader, baseband, kernel, and system that you can change to confirm your thoughts.
It's very easy to untie S5, only needs one tool.
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I know it's not software the bootloader, kernels, baseband have all been same and worked fine up until this month or so. I smacked the front of it while in recovery to see if it would have the issue. Sure enough it is hardware related! I just messaged a local repair shop on how much a fix would cost. I dont feel comfortable taking apart my phone and I dont have tools or anything.

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