The phone is my MiL's. This past Friday she was heading out to run some errands and picked up her phone. She said the back of it was so hot that it almost burned her hand. She pulled the phone out of its case and was able to get the back off and pull the battery. When I got in from work I tried starting it up but the battery seemed to be dead. I plugged it up to a charger and got nothing, but it did start heating up beside the camera; it does this whether the battery is inserted or not. Nonetheless it will not turn on either with or without the battery or on the charger.
Anyone else run into this? Is the phone toast? We have already got her a replacement (Moto G4 Prime edition) but I want to give this thing one last shot.
Try getting another battery, just to try.
Also can u boot to fastboot mode (power button + increase volume button)
Otherwise i think its toast
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Didn't even flash or root yet and my 32 grey GT died last night. It had been working great and was getting ready to flash pershoots kernel this weekend. Last night I plugged in after shutting it down like I do every night. Today when I went to turn it on nothing. I tried holding down the power button for a while and still nothing. I tried holding down volume buttons with power for extended period still nothing. I even tried plugging into different outlet to see if something happened with outlet and maybe drained the battery overnight. Luckily I got it from Fry's two weeks ago on Friday right when they came out and Fry's has a 15 day return policy but this makes me a little concerned... and that's cutting it a little too close.
Has anyone heard of things like this happening with the GT? I'm thinking I may need to see if they'll still sell me the extended warranty. I babied this thing and hadn't even flashed anything on it yet. I'm a little concerned about the reliability of the hardware... I'm not usually the one with the needle in the haystack device that goes bad but who knows... I'm already in withdrawal without it.
Is there anything else I can try before I take it back? Maybe try plugging it into the computer instead to see what happens? I can't really see what else I could do since this thing doesn't have a removable battery. If it won't power on I can't imagine there's much I can test with the SDK dev tools from the PC using the usb cable?
plugged it in with usb...
I do hear the sound of a device being plugged in on win7 when I plugged GT in and got the driver message in tray. GT still won't turn on. When I hold down the power button every about 6 seconds my windows machine machine makes the same sound you get when plugging in a usb device in addition to an extra sound at the end.
[email protected] well I guess it's going back tomorrow.
You got the sleep of death. This is a honeycomb bug that i have personally experienced in the xoom, transformer, and the GT. The way to fix it is to unplug the GT, press the power button down by itself and hold it until the you see the screen turn on and startto boot up. It may take 15 seconds or more.
If that doesnt work, plug it into the wall outlet and try the process again. If that fails also, unplug it again and try the process once more.
That combination seems to work for everyone. The only exception would be if the battery is completely drained. You would need to plug it into a wall charger for a few hours and let the battery charge, and then try the process again.
I dont know why this hasnt been fixed by google yet, its really annoying. I thought 3.1 would fix it but it didnt.
you should have post this on the general thread, but why dont you return it for a different one? problem solve...
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I think you got the battery drained .. for some odd reasons the android has leaky power consumption even when shutdown on occasions ..
Charge it up for a while .. wait .. correction LONG while ..
Hope that is the problem
Exactly the same problem, I have tried the hold power button but it is not working... any other work around?
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I chatted with a rep from Samsung last knight and he told me that I needed to leave the Tab charging for at least 6 hours and then try again... so I'll let you know if that did the trick... hope it does...
I've actually had this happen on two different 32GB Galaxy Tabs (the original one I purchased and its replacement). After powering the device down it would not boot up.
In both cases it happened about 3 days after receiving the tablet and with 80-90% battery charge remaining. I tried additional charging, holding the power button down for an extended period of time, and attempting to boot into download mode - everything failed to bring it back to life.
I'm not sure what triggers this condition my only suspicion was that it may have something to do with enabling encryption on the device. On the second tablet I didn't have time to do much customization or install many apps but it ended up dying shortly after enabling encryption.
Wow. This happened to me yesterday with my 16gb from Sprint. Had come unlocked,yesterday 3 days in, died. I tried all the suggestions above to no avail.
Took it to corporate today. Now waiting on replacement.
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Hope next one is unlocked
Edit**** worked. Lol. Guess I didn't try it again today after I tried charging it last night.
About 15 to 20 seconds and she's back!!! Excellent! ! Thank you so much.
Not sure now whether to replace it.
With another.
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So yesterday my phone worked great. I work outside for the most part. It rained its ass off. Phone did not get wet that im aware of. no water drops or anything on it. Had it inside my waterproof jacket. This was early morning..10am or so. I get home from work around 7pm. Phone still works. battery is getting very low though. At 8pm phone reboots..which it randomly does sometimes. I set it down, come back to it awhile later and realize it never came back on. Figured the battery was completely drained past 5%. plugged it into stock charger (not stock cable though but a highend cable still). Phone wouldnt boot up or power on or even show any signs of life. Tried other cables, charges, USB ports on computer, even car charger. Nothing. Set it on charge over night. Still not even a LED blink. Set it on car charger all day while at work. Not even a blink. I took it apart (taken many phones apart in my time haha) disconnected battery and plugged it in...nothing. tried power/volume down, power/volume up, all 3 buttons. held all button combos for over a minute. Still nothing at all. I have a new battery on order that I can slap in there and see if the battery is just completely shot but does anyone else have any ideas on what i can do to get it up and running again? Already had to buy a new phone G3! because i HAVe to have one for work. So i want to get this one working again so i have a backup in case this ever happens again.
Thanks for any and all help
Have you tried to enter download mode?
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Have you tried to enter download mode?
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tried to enter download mode, recovery mode, every mode i know of. with no luck.
and forgot to mention. when plugged into computer the computer does not notice anything has been plugged in at all. no sound at all. nothing under device manager
well i got the new battery in. didnt work. still no power at all. anyone else know of something i can try? i know the screen isnt dead because it would still give out sound when turned on or vibrate. but that doesnt happen either. is there some other thing i could test? how would i test the motherboard? power button?
This sounds like exactly what happened to my phone about two weeks ago. Phone was randomly rebooting one morning in strange intervals. Once or twice an hour at first, then more often as the day progressed. By the end of the day the phone wouldn't even turn on anymore. I had thought it was the battery as well but after bringing in to an electronics repair shop, it was diagnosed as a bad motherboard and the guy quoted me $130 to replace it. Considering you can buy the D800 off contract brand new for about $220 off the internet, I declined. I'm still really upset about it. I had already had it replaced by AT&T while it was under warranty. However, now my warranty has expired. I really liked the phone overall but now I'm not so sure I trust LG's hardware.
I'm using my brother's old iphone 4 now and it drives me flippin' crazy. I want to get a new phone as soon as possible but I don't know what to get. I'm so torn on the whole issue. Was thinking about the S6 but I've had bad luck with samsung in the past as well. I'd get a newer iphone but ios is so lame compared to Android. I hope you find a better solution than I did. :crying:
Download mode and rom flash?
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Hello guys,
This just happened.
I left my phone charging, and when it hit 100%, I disconnected it from the charger and then I was going to put it in airplane mode, so I could go to bed. When I pushed the status bar down, the phone froze, 5 seconds later the screen went black and it wont turn on now.
When I plug the phone on my PC, there's a sound notification from windows, just like when you plug whatever USB device, but the phone is absolutely dead.
Holding the power button doesn't help. It just got out from warranty last month.... Full stock phone.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
Similar event happened with me, phone died abruptly service center people told me that pcb has died and needs to be replaced, will cost more than 300$ for a new pcb. This phone has got really poor quality hardware component can die any time. Never gonna buy huawei built phone in future
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50/50 chance a new battery might fix your problem. But if your not gonna do it yourself might be time to throw in the towel.
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I haven't had any problems with the battery whatsoever, it was fine since day one, a little but totally normal wear. The phone charged fine everytime also.
I stopped by in a service shop, they don't mess with nexus devices and they don't know anyone who does (Nexus never came to my country, so it's a rare device to see, iPhones, Galaxies and Moto G are kings here)..
Anyway, I tried everything I could. Hair dryer, downloading build with QFIL, holding the power and volume for more than 20 minutes, leaving the charger on for 24h and everything else I found online and the phone didn't even tried to recover, so I pulled the trigger on a OnePlus 5T. I hope this one lasts me for 5 years, like I was planning with the N6P.
Last night I had my phone connected to my computer to charger it per my normal routine before going to bed. I removed the USBC cable and the phone's screen instantly went black. Would not power on with holding the power button, power button and Volume + button together. None of the tricks I knew to try would work.
I laid down for the night and plugged it into the original charger and cable from OP, and the phone vibrated, showed the bootloader unlocked message, then back to black screen, never showed the boot animation. Intrigued, I then was able to get into the fast boot screen, I got excited and thought maybe by some chance there was a software/kernel issue and I could push the image from my desktop. So I unplugged the power cable and as soon as I did the phone instantly powered off.
Now prior to connecting the phone to the computer, the phone was at roughly 35% battery, so there was no way at any point that the battery was dead.
I left the phone connected to the oem charger and cable overnight, and upon waking up today the phone will still not turn on. I tried holding power and volume + for at least a minute and no signs of life.
I'm really at a loss here, I've had the phone less than 3 weeks, it's never been dropped or exposed to water.
I opened up a ticket for repair from OP but now I'm concerned that the phone is rooted and has TWRP, if they'll deny repair, even if it appears to be a hardware issue not software?
Are there any other tricks I can try?
Well as an update, I now know why I've seen many people say OP has horrible customer support. It took longer than it should have, but the repair facility says that replacing the mainboard fixed the problem. And sure enough my phone is charging and working as expected. Already updated, bootloader unlocked, twrp installed and magisk. Life is good. ?
Hi everyone,
I have a strange situation, yesterday my son plugged in one of those cheap USB fans to his Tab E 9.6, and he said battery went down to 60%, he unplugged it, later we noticed the tablet would not turn on.
It's SM-T560NZKUXAR, I've been trying to charge it, it gets very hot near the charging port/camera, and nothing on the screen.
I pressed and held the power+vol down button, and I get a "no battery / plug in to the outlet" icon on the screen, when I do, nothing happens.
I was able to reboot it once and it got to the home screen but turned off because of 0% battery.
I was able to get it into recovery too, so it's not a software issue.
I assume the USB fan messed up the battery or fried something in there, is it possible to replace the battery or anyway to test it? Or off to the boneyard it's going..
SM-T377P sudden RIP
Hey did you ever find a solution to this? My Tab E 8.0 did the exact thing you described, almost word for word, just out of the blue a couple days ago. So now it won't power on at all, and the only thing I've found suggests it needs a battery replacement, which would be a huge pain since the back cover isn't "supposed" to come off, so it would more than likely need very precise and involved dismantling or I'm thinking I might just have to take it to the nearest uBreakIfix and hope they don't charge a crazy amount to check/swap the battery. If anyone knows of a simpler solution that doesn't involve "surgery" on the unit itself then I'm all ears.
And just to clarify, I wasnt doing anything power-intensive like your USB fan or anything when it happened, so you might be able to rule that out. I just had it plugged in charging and noticed the battery went down insanely fast when I took it off the charger and the top of it was hot to the touch, and then boom it was dead without any way to turn back on