My s4 has been doing this since yesterday where it shuts off and wont be able to turn on. It happened once yesterday and I booted to recovery and wiped data and it fixed the issue. I updated my phone today with odin to ND1(I have a US Cellular s4) and it seemed fine. It shut off randomly once and I didn't think anything of it and it booted up fine. I flashed the Cyanogenmod may 3rd nightly and it was working just perfectly with no problems.
Later today I take it out of my pocket and it wont boot. Cant get to recovery, or download mode. All that happens is it flashes the boot screen for a second or two then goes blank.
Could this be a hardware problem?
If not any idea how to fix this???
Hi Everyone,
I bought a S4 online and hoping to get it fixed. Here's the problem:
When I turn the phone ON, the phone boots up and vibrates and Samsung S4 logo appears.
As soon as the logo appears, the phone suddenly turns off and the screen goes black.
I cannot to go recovery mode.
Could this be a hardware or software issue?
Any guidance will be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
It could be both. It could even be a battery problem.
Try flashing the firmware again using Odin. If you can boot the phone in download mode. If flashing firmware doesn't do it, then it might be hardware related.
Exactly this happened to me. I was using my phone and it suddenly died, every time I tried to turn it back on it would get to the Galaxy S5 splash screen and turn off again. It did the same trying to get to recovery. If I tried download mode it would flash up quickly then turn off.
Turns out my power button was faulty.
My fix......I took my phone and pressed power button over and over again for about 1 minute as fast as I could
It's worked perfectly ever since.
Worth a try, what have you got to lose!?
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I just got this phone alittle over a month ago. Today at work, my phone randomly shut down and started continuously restarting. The phone will vibrate and boot the logo, then turn into a black screen, vibrate again, and restart. I had not modified my device at all. Just downloaded your typical apps like anyone else. I already tried taking out the battery and letting it sit and booting in recovery mode and wiping the cache and restoring to factory settings. I also tried to use odin to flash what i think is my firmware onto the device. I wasn't able to figure out the firmware of the device before I did it so i sort of guessed based on the model. Though all i did for this is download what i thought was the firmware, put it in odin3.4, entered download mode and plugged my device in and let it download. I didnt do any rooting or enable debugging/disable debugging before i used odin. Did I miss a step? Does anyone have any suggestions of something I else do. I am so confused on how this happened to my phone!
I installed the 6.0 Marshallow Update on my Samsung Galaxy J5 Smartphone from Smart Switch on my PC. At first everything was OK. I plugged it, and it started downloading. Nothing unusual. When it ended, it said that the phone is restarting, so I should unplug it and plug it again, to see if it worked. The first unusual thing was that the phone didn't restart. It was just turned off. And I passed that because I thought I misread. So I unplug the phone from the PC and try to power it on. This is when the REAL weird stuff comes. At first, the "Samsung Galaxy J5 Powered by Android" logo shows up. Nothing special. Then a yellow-blue line shows up below the logo. I don't give it enough attention. After that, the screen starts to go green. Slowly turning green. . .The logo didn't disappear. My first reaction was to remove the battery, wait 10 seconds and put it back. I now try to charge it, to see if it happens again. AGAIN THE SAME! The yellow-blue line shows up, the screen starts to slowly turn green. I then wait to see what happens. The screen goes green. Completly. The screen needed a few more seconds to turn COMPLETLY GREEN. But I was soooo scared I took the battery and the charger off. I put it back up but this time, I wanted to go to recovery mode, so I can simply click "Reboot Phone". I couldn't. There was nothing I can do. I now have the phone without the battery and I want to know what is happening and how to fix it. I am really scared so I need help ASAP!
androider05 said:
I installed the 6.0 Marshallow Update on my Samsung Galaxy J5 Smartphone from Smart Switch on my PC. At first everything was OK. I plugged it, and it started downloading. Nothing unusual. When it ended, it said that the phone is restarting, so I should unplug it and plug it again, to see if it worked. The first unusual thing was that the phone didn't restart. It was just turned off. And I passed that because I thought I misread. So I unplug the phone from the PC and try to power it on. This is when the REAL weird stuff comes. At first, the "Samsung Galaxy J5 Powered by Android" logo shows up. Nothing special. Then a yellow-blue line shows up below the logo. I don't give it enough attention. After that, the screen starts to go green. Slowly turning green. . .The logo didn't disappear. My first reaction was to remove the battery, wait 10 seconds and put it back. I now try to charge it, to see if it happens again. AGAIN THE SAME! The yellow-blue line shows up, the screen starts to slowly turn green. I then wait to see what happens. The screen goes green. Completly. The screen needed a few more seconds to turn COMPLETLY GREEN. But I was soooo scared I took the battery and the charger off. I put it back up but this time, I wanted to go to recovery mode, so I can simply click "Reboot Phone". I couldn't. There was nothing I can do. I now have the phone without the battery and I want to know what is happening and how to fix it. I am really scared so I need help ASAP!
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Hello!
I think you flashed other firmware than your phone model. Thats how it happened on my J500FN when i tried 6.0.1 firmware from J500F since J500FN didnt have official update.
Download a firmware for your phone model, 5.1.1 or 6.0.1 and flash through ODIN, then the problem should be gone.
This happened on my phone when I put 6.1 on via odin but then I simply tried a different recovery and the recovery was the problem
John
Anyone know how to fix this problem? I cant use odin because it wont let me go to recovery or download mode
This is happening to my phone with the exact same situation, but now I can't seem to connect to the pc with the cable - what should I do?
Squido234 said:
Anyone know how to fix this problem? I cant use odin because it wont let me go to recovery or download mode
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It happen because you use latest odin. flash again using odin 3.07 and see how it goes. It fixed mine. Had to double flash. First flash was giving me green screen. It won even pass the bootloader. Then enter download mode and reflash it using odin 3.07, it works like a charm now.
When i flash any custom rom sutable to my phone j500f . A green screen comes.so i cant flash custom roms.what is the solution??
MANAS RAMESH said:
When i flash any custom rom sutable to my phone j500f . A green screen comes.so i cant flash custom roms.what is the solution??
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It's happen when you flash ur custom rom (only for bootloader lollipop) using bootloader marsmallow. The solution is ur phone must be support the requirements of ur custom rom.
Hi.
I cant find a solution. I have this problem. My g361F only boot in download mode, but i can exit from there when i want, only that i can not pass powered by screen or enter recovery. Also if i plug the phone when is off the screen goes up, but still stuck in powered by screen and no battery charging icon.
Since i can enter download i try to flash everything in odin( updates, firmware repair, twrp....) all of them flashes whitout errors, but when the phone is restarted it stuck on powered by screen.
Any ideas????
any solution found?
rodriciru said:
Hi.
I cant find a solution. I have this problem. My g361F only boot in download mode, but i can exit from there when i want, only that i can not pass powered by screen or enter recovery. Also if i plug the phone when is off the screen goes up, but still stuck in powered by screen and no battery charging icon.
Since i can enter download i try to flash everything in odin( updates, firmware repair, twrp....) all of them flashes whitout errors, but when the phone is restarted it stuck on powered by screen.
Any ideas????
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im in the exact same situation with my s820l, did u ever find a solution?