Database Users

[Q] bricked phone ... how I can solve it !

hi there all,
a friend of mine is having a problem with his phone. I tried to explain him how to install an android base sistem, he did, but he had a lot of frezes etc.
I put him to make a task29 and after that to install all from the scratch. First was the last radio version which stoped at 96% and stayed there for a long time. He did a reset by pulling the battery off and now the phone is not starting up at all. when you put the battery in it, after a few seconds is starting to vibrate continuously without stoping and it keep it like this maybe untill the battery will be fully drained.
he cannot enter in bootloader, it is not recognised when is pluged in the usb ... practicaly you cannot do anything ... or maybe there is a way and I don't know it.
so please give us some hints. thank you !

If you have flashed a .51 radio and you have a TMoUS HD2 well then the phone is smoke. The only way to fix it is by JTAG and that's a fairly complexed way.

we are talking about europe version not tmous and the radio version was 2.15.50.14 which is correct !

If you dont even get into the boot loader this phone is really f***ed up..
But are you talking about the tri color screen?

i have hd2 since it appeared and I flashed mine for more than 100 times and also my friends come to me to tweak their hd2's, but it seems that my friend did something wrong.
when I taln about bootloader I mean the tricolor screen.
the problem is that the phone screen is black and he cannot do anything, only that anoing continuous vibration !

slick007 said:
i have hd2 since it appeared and I flashed mine for more than 100 times and also my friends come to me to tweak their hd2's, but it seems that my friend did something wrong.
when I taln about bootloader I mean the tricolor screen.
the problem is the phone is black and he cannot do anything !!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
OK, I think the only thing you could do know is go to your provider and pray for a replacement. Dunno if the change your phone if it is bricked.

Could try saying .. the phone locked up .. I took the battery out ..
and now this is happing .. Give it a try what can they say ?

WarlockW said:
Could try saying .. the phone locked up .. I took the battery out ..
and now this is happing .. Give it a try what can they say ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
+1
Would do exactly this. I don't think they're going to strip down the whole phone into pieces just to see why it isn't working. It's an older model so I think they will be fair and give you a new one.

Yup go back to a store or call HTC.
Romania is part of the EU now so the 2 year warranty should be granted.

Check that the battery pins haven't been bent out of place. They can bend very easily and if the pins are not properly aligned the phone can constantly reboot, which may explain the constant vibrations.

WarlockW said:
Could try saying .. the phone locked up .. I took the battery out ..
and now this is happing .. Give it a try what can they say ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
He can also just call and say that the phone won't turn on he was charging it over night. And when he woke up to use it, The phone wouldn't turn on he tried the battery in a friend's hd2. It turned his on and you tried your battery in his but didn't work... they will send you a replacement for free Thats what i did 2 months ago when i cracked my screen. And before sending it in i flashed a .51 radio on purpose so it wouldn't turn on. I know it might be a bogus thing to do but i didnt have $130 at the time.

screen is white? battery is boiling hot? why

phone is 1 week old was running beautiful until battery started to get a little hot. i was like ok nothing to be alarmed about put it in my pocket. does have a silicon case on it.
20 min late take it out and my screen has turned white. so i do all different things to reset it, take battery out for 30 min let it cool down and try again still white screen...
i have never dropped the phone or anything that may have made the lcd crash/loose its pixels.
i know the phone is working like normal as i swipe and went into the camera and volume up its just the screen/lcd WHITE?
so my question is what the hell is going on.
do i change the battery?
do i replace the lcd?
i cant re-set the phone cant see anything on it.
here is a video i found on youtube have the exact same screen and problem
search this in youtube "Galaxy S2 White screen" ..
thanks for any information you can provide.
and please dont say do i have warranty or take it to samsung.

Maybe it overheated the graphics chip, thereby damaging the video output.

it only got slightly warm, it wouldnt have got that hot at all to overheat.

Have you tried connected it to your PC and flashing either a different rom or reflashing the stock rom with ODIN?
That's the first thing I'd try.

Take to service centre dont mess with roms .
jje

Omnomnom25 said:
Have you tried connected it to your PC and flashing either a different rom or reflashing the stock rom with ODIN?
That's the first thing I'd try.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yeah ok ill give that a shot but it will be hard sense i cant see anything on the screen...but i still cant see why it would be the firmware/different rom..

JJEgan said:
Take to service centre dont mess with roms .
jje
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yeah i do not want to open the phone myself or anything i just want to know what happed and what needs to be done before i go to a shop and they rip me off.

Once again: Noob bricked his new phone..

Sorry to annoy you guys with the same things over and over again. Me - used to flash and customize WM devices quite alot - was a bit to fast with Android I guess.
Had Samsung with stock firmware (about 3-4 months ago, cant tell more).
Wanted to start getting into flashing new Roms, so tried to flash semphore kernel first (Yes.. i know now..).
Went trough somehow anyways, Odin gave green light, I disconnected from USB.
But instead of device booting into somethin I got the white I9100 letters and a big "!" sign below.
(Guess I know now why..)
So.. i tried to flash again with repartition on. I left it running for about 45 minutes, but nothing was happening. Red some posts - guess the wrong ones - that told me if it is stuck for that long you should disconnect, remove bat, retry. Did so, and to my shock odin suddenly replied with:
<ID:0/003> Re-Partition operation failed.
<OSM> All threads completed. (succeed 0 / failed 1)
<ID:0/003> Removed!!
I should have listended... " DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!" And read more before I try. I know. Now its not even powering on - guess this means some serious money I gotta pay for repair? Or is there anything left I could try???
Sorry for the noob action....

Is that a kernel for a different phone by any chance (i.e. Samsung Galaxy S)?

Try getting into download mode from the phone, volume down, home button and power button, press all 3, and report back.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

The ! sign is normal. its just there to tell that you are using an unofficial kernel. the repartition is the reason why your device is bricked. Never tick that one

First off all you don't need to repartition when only flashing a kernel.
If you are able to boot in download-mode
You can flash a stock firmware from http://www.sammobile.com and everything should be okay again
And semaphore is not for the S II
Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7

No way to get into download mode.. no battery sign on charge, just black.
So guess there is no way out if it? I red about a special usb cable you can solder yourself, I would not mind doing so... But the pure black on the phones display tells me somehow this time it went worst case... hit me!!!
What would you tell em if you bring it back? I only have it 3 months, kept in case, looks brandnew, guess I still get some good service.
Tell them it got stuck on Kies Update?
Tell them it simply turned off and stayed?
Any other ideas?
Guess telling them "tried to flash wrong, unofficial firmware, then re-partioned and plugged off to early" wont help much to get the repair for free.
I can only hope I bricked it that bad that they cant revive and think its a hardware problem.

Buy a JIG on e-bay for a few bucks
Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7

They'll tell you to pound sand if you try to get it warrantied; it will cost you money to get it fixed. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you have to pay to play.
Order a USB jig, it MIGHT help you get into DL mode.
Ninja Edit; beat by one minute.

redmaner said:
Buy a JIG on e-bay for a few bucks
Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Get a jig as mentioned, can you get into recovery mode? Vol up, home, power button combo.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk

I could get into download & recovery mode before without problems. Now I dont even get charging symbol. Does JIG really helps in such an extreme case?
edit: Bought JIG from ebay, will see if it helps. Not much hope..
Will report back, thanks for the help guys.

Meierhans said:
I could get into download & recovery mode before without problems. Now I dont even get charging symbol. Does JIG really helps in such an extreme case?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Potentially yes.

Maybe you are lucky and they would accept it when you say kies messed it up.
But i think you don't have bricked it
... If i got it right you just flashed a kernel from a wrong device, right? this means your bootloader is still intact... So no need to worry, your second flash didn't even start according to the odin log you posted.
Here a few things you can try:
1. Maybe your battery is empty because if the long time in download mode (it doesn't get charged there) -> either charge it with some cheap exterenal charger or find someone who borrows his
2. If you have ensured your battery isn't empty, take it out, wait a few minutes and insert it WHILE you hold three button combo for download mode (needs some acrobatic skills ) hold it a bit to see what happens (can be up to 10sec.), if you are in download mode make sure to flash a fw with three files plus re partition with pit!!!
3. If this gets stuck again try to flash just a pit file and nothing else, this will erase every single partition and then repeat step 2
4. Buy a jig for 5 bucks on ebay or amazon (or do it yourself as you said)
A jig will be your last resort but to 99% you will be successful with it. As i said because your bootloader is still intact.
And take care to use only files for i9100 this time
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Most off the time it does! But sometimes it doesn't.
But it costs a lot less when you need to repair it by samsung or service store ect.
Sent from my GT-I9100 using CyanogenMod7

Invest in a Jig. They cost <$3 on ebay or you can make one yourself just youtube
"How to Make a USB Jig for $2! [Galaxy S2] [Download Mode][Reset Odin Counter] "
Ive had my phone brick on me SOOOO MANY TIMES but ive always managed to revive it. Belive me and anyone else who says "get a JIG".....GET ONE! Better <$3 jib that saves your phone or spend another X amount on a repair/new phone

You guys give me hope. Thx!
I ordered a Jig from ebay yesterday already. (7 € but fast delivery).
I can´t believe the battery was empty, I had it on about 80 % when starting odin
with "repartition" on. And it was showing the "do not disconnect message" on screen
when I plugged it off, which did not dissapear. Then I turned it off, removed battery, instantly after that it was only giving me black.
So I guess it was in the middle of repartitioning.. I really did not expect it to take THAT long, at least not after the first flashing went trough in about 10 seconds. Dunno what this means exactly, does this hurt the bootloader itself? I thought (...) it was only the userfile space / system space.
And sure, I will try each and every trick before I send it in and tell it was evil, evil kies.
Cause IF they are able to revive, they will instantly see on the counter that I did mess with it.
Lets hope I dont pay to much for my little playing - actually I just wanted all functions I bought the phone for to work.... get rid of the beta they sold with it..

Meierhans said:
You guys give me hope. Thx!
I ordered a Jig from ebay yesterday already. (7 € but fast delivery).
I can´t believe the battery was empty, I had it on about 80 % when starting odin
with "repartition" on. And it was showing the "do not disconnect message" on screen
when I plugged it off, which did not dissapear. Then I turned it off, removed battery, instantly after that it was only giving me black.
So I guess it was in the middle of repartitioning.. I really did not expect it to take THAT long, at least not after the first flashing went trough in about 10 seconds. Dunno what this means exactly, does this hurt the bootloader itself? I thought (...) it was only the userfile space / system space.
And sure, I will try each and every trick before I send it in and tell it was evil, evil kies.
Cause IF they are able to revive, they will instantly see on the counter that I did mess with it.
Lets hope I dont pay to much for my little playing - actually I just wanted all functions I bought the phone for to work.... get rid of the beta they sold with it..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I guess it's best for it to wait till it finishes, but next time, read more
I hope the JIG works for you, man...

bassie1995 said:
next time, read more
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.
And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...

Meierhans said:
Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.
And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
haha hey did the jig work?

Originally Posted by bassie1995<br />
next time, read more
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
<br />
<br />
Gosh, you can really count on that. I have no idea what was riding me, I have been flashing WM phones since 2006 and never bricked one, always red alot before.<br />
<br />
And the I kick my shiny new SGS2 in about 10 minutes into darkness...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same here, always flashing and I always read (I'm too chicken **** to not read ).
I will heed this warning, and keep reading. For now, I can only say that I hope it works.
How you doin'? Greetings from my GT-I9000!

You flashed a kernel from the galaxy s instead of the s2. Did you use the ops file for the s also? I've read that using a wrong ops file is bad..... Anyone else here that maybe knows a bit more, does this file contain the partition layouts for the phone?

Random Power Off & Boot Loop Galaxy S4 GT-I9505

Hi,
Not sure what is happening to my phone. I have had stock 4.2.2 rooted with CF auto root for months and had no problems. A few weeks ago my phone started to randomly shut down, not properly just complete power off in an instant. It would then start to reboot and get to the Samsung S4 logo screen before powering off again and trying to reboot and then gets stuck in a constant loop. At first I was able to just reinstall CF root with Odin and it would start up OK. I could also get it to start by re-installing Philz recovery.
Now though, that doesn't work so this morning I installed JB 4.3 I9505XXUEMK8-PRE-ROOTED-KNOX-FREE-ODEX-FULL.tar.MD5 and it says that it is rooted and everything seems to be OK but after an hour or so it has started to randomly shut down again. If I attempt to go into recovery (stock) and clear the cache partition it will reboot normally and run for a while until I use an app and do it again. Am I doing something wrong here or is my phone just knackered?
Phooka

Maybe is coz the RAM is overloaded. Take a look in:
- Press HOME button for 2 secs
- U will see 3 icons in the bottom. Click on the "cheese"
- Tab "RAM"
- If ur phone use more of 1 GB of RAM for run ur apps maybe will be time of delete bloatware

I had the same problem in GT-I9500, I had to get it repaired in a service center.
There was a problem with mother board to charger port connection..
Hope it helps you!

Random Shutdown
praveen_kalasa said:
I had the same problem in GT-I9500, I had to get it repaired in a service center.
There was a problem with mother board to charger port connection..
Hope it helps you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. Probably not as I've been told that warrantee will be void now as I've flashed whilst having Knox installed which I understand to be irreversable

random shuts and boot loops
Joku1981 said:
Maybe is coz the RAM is overloaded. Take a look in:
- Press HOME button for 2 secs
- U will see 3 icons in the bottom. Click on the "cheese"
- Tab "RAM"
- If ur phone use more of 1 GB of RAM for run ur apps maybe will be time of delete bloatware
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. its running at 1.04 out of a possible 1.78G. When cleared it drops to 847 MB.

I Am Phooka said:
Thanks. its running at 1.04 out of a possible 1.78G. When cleared it drops to 847 MB.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If u wanna try to recover some RAM u can delete some bloatware that u dont use. Tc with what u delete. I let u some info about if u wanna try -> HERE

I have this problem, I swear it is because of the dodgy battery. (I have the BD battery)
When I plug it in to charge all works again properly.
Last night my battery was showing in the high 60's the phone went off. When I put charger in the battery was at 3%!
Very annoying, going to take to Geek Squad tonight and see if they wil lreplace battery. Guy here at work has same phone, different battery derial number and no problems at all.
Hopefully they will change the battery, I don't have any paperwork with me but the phone is obviously within the 1 year warrenty.

Random Shutdown and boot loop
choccy31 said:
I have this problem, I swear it is because of the dodgy battery. (I have the BD battery)
When I plug it in to charge all works again properly.
Last night my battery was showing in the high 60's the phone went off. When I put charger in the battery was at 3%!
Very annoying, going to take to Geek Squad tonight and see if they wil lreplace battery. Guy here at work has same phone, different battery derial number and no problems at all.
Hopefully they will change the battery, I don't have any paperwork with me but the phone is obviously within the 1 year warrenty.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Interesting. I have noticed a couple of times when I look at the battery stats that it has drained from say 90% to 3% in less than 1min, just a verticle line. When I plug it in to charge it says that it's at 90% or whatever it was. Other times it needs charging and is almost dead. It's as though it has shorted out. I wonder if that is the problem here.

random shuts and boot loops
Joku1981 said:
If u wanna try to recover some RAM u can delete some bloatware that u dont use. Tc with what u delete. I let u some info about if u wanna try -> HERE
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for that. It's quite a list. I'll go through it and remove the ones i think i can do without and see how it goes.

Same Issue
I have the same problem with my I9505
- It shuts down randomly (sometimes you see a few seconds in advance that your connection to the mobile antennas disconnects), when you look at it, in the middle of a phonecall, ... whenever it's nog plugged in to the power of external battery
- It's almost impossible to get it powered on again (gets stuck in a loop of rebooting: most times at the Samsung logo or after it's on for a few seconds), unless you connect your charger that is connected to the powergrid or external battery
- sometimes it resets the phonelanguage to default (so in stead of for example Dutch, everything is in English again)
I just cleared the cache and removed some programs...
Fingers crossed
--> I'll give an update if anything changes

Random Shutdown and boot loop
LinusN said:
I have the same problem with my I9505
- It shuts down randomly (sometimes you see a few seconds in advance that your connection to the mobile antennas disconnects), when you look at it, in the middle of a phonecall, ... whenever it's nog plugged in to the power of external battery
- It's almost impossible to get it powered on again (gets stuck in a loop of rebooting: most times at the Samsung logo or after it's on for a few seconds), unless you connect your charger that is connected to the powergrid or external battery
- sometimes it resets the phonelanguage to default (so in stead of for example Dutch, everything is in English again)
I just cleared the cache and removed some programs...
Fingers crossed
--> I'll give an update if anything changes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've tried that as well. Didn't work. The problem you describe is exactly the problem I have. I have ordered another battery but I don't think it's that. I'll let you know if it is. I hadn't noticed that it always boots OK if it is plugged into the mains. Wish I knew what was causing the problems.

Random Shutdown and boot loop
So I think I am finally getting somewhere. I took this screenshot straight after it shut down and got stuck in a boot loop. So I plugged it into the mains and it started OK. The battery just gives up when i stress the device with a hungry app or when booting which causes a heavy drain on the on the power even when its got a healthy charge. Got a new battery on order. Take a look at the screenshot. You can see the battery instantaneously drops to zero charge until it's re-booted on the mains.:laugh:

LinusN said:
I have the same problem with my I9505
- It shuts down randomly (sometimes you see a few seconds in advance that your connection to the mobile antennas disconnects), when you look at it, in the middle of a phonecall, ... whenever it's nog plugged in to the power of external battery
- It's almost impossible to get it powered on again (gets stuck in a loop of rebooting: most times at the Samsung logo or after it's on for a few seconds), unless you connect your charger that is connected to the powergrid or external battery
- sometimes it resets the phonelanguage to default (so in stead of for example Dutch, everything is in English again)
I just cleared the cache and removed some programs...
Fingers crossed
--> I'll give an update if anything changes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
in the list I forgot to mention that the known wifi's are also wiped. --> you have to connect to them again...

I too am having this exact problem; I'm glad to hear it is not only me, not that it helps any of us.
I posted in another thread, but the symptoms everyone here are describing are exactly what I am seeing:
- Sudden battery drop from anything (it's happened to me before about 5 minutes after unplugging from the wall socket) to zero; then phone goes into a loop unless I plug it back into the mains socket
- When plugging into the mains socket with this issue, sometimes the battery is empty and sometimes it shoots straight back up to where it was
- Plants Vs Zombies 2 is the sure-fire way for me to reproduce this issue
- examined logs (although not sure if the right one) using CatLog; nothing obvious (in fact the last line on one of the logs is litterally cut halfway through)
- Wifi connection details lost occasionally
I have reflashed about 4 other (4.3) ROMs (and I tried a 4.4 GE one too) and they all seem to do the same; I am wondering if it is something to do with the non-Knox modems required to flash the 4.3 ROMs as I don't think I had this problem before updating to 4.3. I don't have the time or patience to revert back to a 4.2 ROM to test this though.
I can go for a couple of days without this happening, but fire up PvZ2 and here we go again.
I too have a new battery on order (allegedly genuine from a well-known auction site), so I will update this thread when that arrives to see if it makes any difference.

I don't like this post for one reason.... it means that the problem I am facing won't solve with a format and a new fresh flash... :crying:
I was spending some time on XDA searching for a good stable firmware to flash because I am having your exactly same issues on my phone... I just tought my phone got a bit messy because I have 130 apps installed and a lot of stuff on it.. so I was just thinking of solving all my problems with a new rom... but then I found this 3d...
So you are telling me that my problem won't get solved so easely? How am I going to deal with a Phone that randomly shuts up??? I need my phone and over the last week it got always worse.. first it shut up at about 5pm.. (at ca 15% charge) then at 3pm and 50% charge... today it shut up at 11am and 80% charge... soon I won't be able to use my phone at all!!
I'm happy I backed up all my data today, but it still doesn't solve my problem since I really need my phone... :crying:
This evening I'm going to flash anyway... let's see what happens..
PS I own a GT-I9505 with 4.2.2 stock rom (root)

Random Shutdown and boot loop
Sorry to hear there's a few more out there with the same problem that I am having. AhHm... Sorry, WAS having. I tried re-flashing all sorts of ROMS from 4.2.2 to Echoe KitKat 4.4, flashed CF Root, reinstalled philz touch recovery god knows how many times all to no avail. I now know that it is nothing to do with your ROM or phone setup. It's Samsungs crappy battery. As soon as I put in my new battery problems solved. I have been running multi-window apps whilst having FB on in the background and watching a film all at the same time. If this was gonna crash it would have done by now.
Problem solved. Don't buy the cheap SPB £9.99 one on ebay it has lots of bad reviews. I got this one with no problems:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-S...114?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f278d6f32
Hope this helps and don't forget the thanks meter.

I Am Phooka said:
Problem solved.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm glad you solved.. this means there could be a solution to my problem... in any case the fact that alla batteries here seem to fail in the same week is really strange!!
And the thing I hate most is that a 500€ phone shouldn't be dying after just some months!

After having spent some time googling around.. I found a solution... well, not exactly a solution... let's say I found the core of the problem...
I found some very interesting posts on the misfuncion on all Samsung S4 Batteries Made and Produced in China with SN starting with BD....
And guess what? my battery corresponds!!
If you look at the battery you will notice that it is a little "bumped" and not perfectly flat...
Here in Italy many users went to samsung customer service and got the battery replaced!
Tomorrow I will check to see if I can get a new battery... for now I'm happy to know exactly what to do in order to get my phone working again!

Samsung Batteries beggining with BD.
I Am Phooka said:
Sorry to hear there's a few more out there with the same problem that I am having. AhHm... Sorry, WAS having. I tried re-flashing all sorts of ROMS from 4.2.2 to Echoe KitKat 4.4, flashed CF Root, reinstalled philz touch recovery god knows how many times all to no avail. I now know that it is nothing to do with your ROM or phone setup. It's Samsungs crappy battery. As soon as I put in my new battery problems solved. I have been running multi-window apps whilst having FB on in the background and watching a film all at the same time. If this was gonna crash it would have done by now.
Problem solved. Don't buy the cheap SPB £9.99 one on ebay it has lots of bad reviews. I got this one with no problems:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GENUINE-S...114?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f278d6f32
Hope this helps and don't forget the thanks meter.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
nioBee said:
After having spent some time googling around.. I found a solution... well, not exactly a solution... let's say I found the core of the problem...
I found some very interesting posts on the misfuncion on all Samsung S4 Batteries Made and Produced in China with SN starting with BD....
And guess what? my battery corresponds!!
If you look at the battery you will notice that it is a little "bumped" and not perfectly flat...
Here in Italy many users went to samsung customer service and got the battery replaced!
Tomorrow I will check to see if I can get a new battery... for now I'm happy to know exactly what to do in order to get my phone working again!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah I found that out tonight also. I called samsung earlier today and they said if it is less than 2 years old they will repair it and I should send it to them. I have flashed so many ROMS since I purchased it last year and one or two with Knox which as we know registers that it has had a custom download which voids the warrantee so I thought it would be a waste of time sending it to them. Also I need my phone for work so it was easier to purchase a new battery.

Bad samsung batteries
nioBee said:
After having spent some time googling around.. I found a solution... well, not exactly a solution... let's say I found the core of the problem...
I found some very interesting posts on the misfuncion on all Samsung S4 Batteries Made and Produced in China with SN starting with BD....
And guess what? my battery corresponds!!
If you look at the battery you will notice that it is a little "bumped" and not perfectly flat...
Here in Italy many users went to samsung customer service and got the battery replaced!
Tomorrow I will check to see if I can get a new battery... for now I'm happy to know exactly what to do in order to get my phone working again!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi,
Do you have a link to the info? was it on an official samsung site?

A3000 won't start or flash

This morning my A3000 started up then it shut down. Now when connected to a charger it only shows the LCD backlight no other operation. Tried to flash it but it won't stay on for more than 3 seconds, my XP laptop sees it then it disappears . Tried the reset button, tried disconnecting the battery for 10 minutes, next step is the hammer unless you can help it :fingers-crossed: only joking I would be lost without my A3000.

I know it's really annoying in such posts to say "Same problem here"..
but there is nothing I can do about it, I really have the same problem...! :S
even more, ! don't have an NVram backup so I lost my chance for formatting..

faissl said:
I know it's really annoying in such posts to say "Same problem here"..
but there is nothing I can do about it, I really have the same problem...! :S
even more, ! don't have an NVram backup so I lost my chance for formatting..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi, I had an idea, I have checked the battery voltage which is reading 3.03v (should be 3.7v) and has very low current so I have ordered a new battery today. I am hoping it is just that it can't start due to lack of power.

RayA3000 said:
Hi, I had an idea, I have checked the battery voltage which is reading 3.03v (should be 3.7v) and has very low current so I have ordered a new battery today. I am hoping it is just that it can't start due to lack of power.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That will most likely work, I think mine would even be lower than that. but isn't there a way to charge it to that level?

Try to uninstall with wipe (ccleaner etc)+reboot & reinstall your driver from ur computer without connecting ur tab.
Then run spflashtool by download or upgrade mode (anyway which work) for a minute wait time.
The proper quick drivers & latest stock rom can be found at @azam436 thread on page 1-4, check it out.
If u ever flash stock rom by spflashtool, your nvram should be automatically backed up & will restored (cmiimw). Good luck.
*] front LED holographic keyboard >> another dream in android

will wait you @RayA3000
Adam Hui said:
Try to uninstall with wipe (ccleaner etc)+reboot & reinstall your driver from ur computer without connecting ur tab.
Then run spflashtool by download or upgrade mode (anyway which work) for a minute wait time.
The proper quick drivers & latest stock rom can be found at @azam436 thread on page 1-4, check it out.
If u ever flash stock rom by spflashtool, your nvram should be automatically backed up & will restored (cmiimw). Good luck.
*] front LED holographic keyboard >> another dream in android
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
All that has been tried of course, we are hardcore users
I tend to believe in @RayA3000 theory, waiting for his follow up about changing the battery, giving that my battery has gone really weak before the accident that I need to charge two times a day or just leave it connected to charger so I can be ready to go any time..

faissl said:
All that has been tried of course, we are hardcore users
I tend to believe in @RayA3000 theory, waiting for his follow up about changing the battery, giving that my battery has gone really weak before the accident that I need to charge two times a day or just leave it connected to charger so I can be ready to go any time..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
EUREKA - my new battery arrived today and my A3000 started up as usual, I'm chuffed
I have worked with batteries for years (we do camera repairs) and have found some batteries can just loose the will to live, no current. At £17.00 it was a cheap fix.

RayA3000 said:
EUREKA - my new battery arrived today and my A3000 started up as usual, I'm chuffed
I have worked with batteries for years (we do camera repairs) and have found some batteries can just loose the will to live, no current. At £17.00 it was a cheap fix.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
my tablet owes you his life
thanks on behave of +5 XDA members that passed the same terrible experience
let's just hope that file I found on spflashtools/backups/ was really my nvram :S