Hey there,
My Dad got a Galaxy S5 some time ago and cannot afford to upgrade. The phone recently stopped charging all together. When plugged in and powered on it doesn't respond to the charger, at all. When powered off and plugged in it loops the grey battery logo.
However if you boot download mode and remove the battery whilest leaving the phone plugged in, it stays on and functional. I even completed a full Odin flash back to stock without the battery in the phone for the entire process.
My dad claims he got a virus, but I factory data reset the device and flashed the latest update via Odin, and it still will not charge.
If anyone has any idea on what the issue may be, it would be appreciated. Prefreably as-fast-as-possible. He runs a business, and cannot answer calls for it without this phone.
Thanks.
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Omnia 7 with Mango RTM officially installed, working perfectly was recently let to sit idle while I was using my Focus, and the battery drained over time.
Today, I wanted to charge it, but plugging in the USB did not power the phone on. I even changed cables, and also used my PC to charge it - but for the life of me, it wouldn't turn on. I even let it sit with the charging cable in it for a while.
I also took the battery out and only plugged the cable, still nothing.
Is the phone dead? Can anything be done to revive it - it was a flawless phone and there were no issues as such. I would appreciate any help.
Update: I plugged in the USB jig which powered the phone on, but now it's in the download mode. Powering it down and and trying to restart it again I am hitting a dead end. It's not powering on. Anyway to restart the phone without removing battery?
Update 2: I remembered from the past trying to update the ROM, that it fails and restarts the phone. So, while in the download mode, I started the ROM updater from Samsung and ran through the normal update process. It failed and restarted the phone - now I see a big white battery charging icon on the front screen. So hopefully this will be ok - and I will update the progress.
But this is quite disturbing as to what steps I had to take to power it on. Imagine if I didn't have the USB jig.
Update 3: After showing the battery icon for about 5-10 minutes, the phone restarted itself and booted normally. It's now charging and hopefully all will be ok. I'll make sure I don't let the battery die again.
Hey all.
So I have an s4 that was running safestrap and hyperdrive. It all worked fine and I was having no problems. The phone froze (programs not responding, not a big deal.)
I did a battery pull and then the phone would not turn on again. When I put the battery in, it turns on for about 5 seconds. I managed to get it into recovery and download mode, however it turns off almost as soon as I get there. I checked with a different battery, but nothing.
I would ODIN it and everything would be fine, but it won't stay on long enough for my computer to even recognize it.
Also, I tried leaving the phone on the charger overnight, but it won't charge the battery or show the red LED. I felt for heat to see if it was hot around the usb/charging port but it wasn't.
Any ideas?
I'm sure you tried this, but did you try to use the USB cord to power and not rely on the battery?
The other morning I woke up and my phone would not turn on after being on the charger overnight on the night stand.
I removed the battery, power drained the device and still the device would not post.
So I grabbed my spare battery and tried that, still no post.
I plugged in my device and noticed the charging light was not coming on, so i tried a different adapter and yet again no change.
I disassembled the phone and swapped out the USB flex cable with a new one, still no change.
So I plugged the device into my computer and I received a battery gray battery image that flashes away almost immediately.
I unplugged the phone held the power button down and plugged the phone back in. I received the Samsung writing with the model number but the device just goes back to the grey battery and flash away,
I attempted to boot the device to recovery mode but it just loops back to the grey battery,
I had then decided to try download mode with odin and restore the stock ROM. I can get the device into download mode but no computer recognizes the device in device manager or odin.
I have removed and re-installed the battery while in download mode and any computer will still not recognize the device.
I noticed one strange thing. If i remove the USB cable from the phone while it is plugged in the phone powers off and will not turn on until it is plugged into a power source.
It is almost as if the phone does not recognize that the battery is even plugged in!
If anyone has any ideas or could possibly point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks guys in advanced if anyone can offer any information on this issue!
Also, the phone is out of warranty!
While I was at work, this message appeared:
Power Sharing: You must download the app in order to control the amount of power shared. If you connect your device to another device with the Samsung Power Sharing Cable without the app, the entire battery amount will be transferred to the other device. Connect to Samsung Apps and download the application.
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The phone hasn't been able to charge since. Odin still detects and can successfully flash the phone, and it will charge briefly powered off . I've tried changing the charger, flashing stock firmware, and installing custom firmware. The phone is usable, and is rooted w/ a unlocked bootloader. The only way I can charge it is if I take out the battery and put it into another S5 or with a external charger. Any help would be appreciated.
You might try this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I18ZaMkDUM
I've also seen some suggestions saying that if you turn it off do a battery pull, let the phone sit for like 30 minutes, then put the battery back in and reboot the phone you can get it to start charging again.
Hi Everyone,
I just got a little SM-T230 tablet and started to playing a bit. I flashed TWRP, changed rom, rooted, tried some mods and it became surprisingly good and snappy. So thanks again people here at XDA you are awesome as always.
But the tablet has some strange problems. When I try to turn it on, it keeps flashing the Samsung logo with the model number. It shows up for a few second after that goes black and shows up the logo again and repeats this for ever.... But if I plug in the charger (wall charger or laptop usb port, doesn't matter) it boots normaly. When I plug out the charger, no problem I can use the tablet normaly, does not turn off or anything. The battery is quiet good, it can play video continuously for almost 6 hours. If it fully charged the situation the same, I have to plug it in to make it turn on.
Another problem is, that the tablet doesn't start to charge when it is turned on. But if I turn it off and then I plug in the charger, it starts to charge, and after that if I turn it on, it keeps charging.
Do you have any idea what is wrong? What can I do to fix these problems?
I can't figure it out what is the cause of this problems. I flashed 4 different roms, stock and customs, but just the same with every rom. Can it be a hardware related issue?
Edit: A little update on the charging issue. I flashed CM 14.1 for T230 and now charging is working, I can charge the tab when it is turned on. But the boot problem still here.... I can turn on the tablet only when it is pluged to the charger.
You're lucky
My SM-T533 was hard bricked because I flashed a rom and I'm still searching for a Kitkat Debrick file, if someone would give it to me, that would be awesome