Turned off my AT&T S8 last night because it was all charged up. Went to turn it on this morning, all sorts of text was crawling by. Rebooted. Now, I have a teal screen that just says "Downloading... Do not turn off target"
Does anybody know what is going on?
Many thanks
Got it sorted out. Took it back to BestBuy, they re-booted it a few times and it came back to life. Checked it for updates, didn't have any.
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So last night at kickball, I sent a text to my wife. The next game, I wanted to see if she texted back, and my phone was off. I didn't remember the battery being low, but thought that perhaps it might have been. When I got home I plugged it in and got nothing. I tried to do the Power/Camera/Reset to see if it would go into bootloader; again nothing. I left the battery out all night, put it back in this morning, still nothing. I've tried usb charging and wall charging as well, with and without the battery. Nothing turns it on... is it done for?
Same thing happened to mine recently. I know the battery was low, and it turned off because of that. Never got it to turn on again.
The only sign of life mine shows is that the red led will turn on if you have it plugged into a charge with the battery out. Other than that, it's a paperweight.
Never got mine working again.
I took mine apart, and somehow got it to turn on again... it was a messy process.. something must be shorted out. Going to have to get something new soon.
i have just the same issue with moto milestone ... i am sure that the battery is fully charged, cause ive charged it with another milestone ... but that one simply won't turn on ... tried different combinations of sd/simcard/battery on and off .. still the same ... Any help would be highly appreciated.
same issue here, mine just stopped working yesterday, battery was fine, i did a soft reset randomly, and then it wouldn't turn back on. Both the talk and end lights are on, that's it..
Mine does the same thing since it was dropped in water. It had'nt been turned on for 2 years since I decided it would work! It still does the red light thing sometimes, but all I got to do is remove battery, try power button and repeat the process until it works. Try it out!
I was notified of the 10.1 update, and told it to go ahead. I noticed as I was going to sleep that there was a crawler progress bar moving (very slowly) at about 35% when I nodded off.
Woke up this am, screen on but nothing on it. All I can get it to do it reboot, display the Galaxy logo, then nothing. The screen is on, but nothing is on it. That's it. Sunk.
If it power it off (takes forever) and plug it in, I see the battery icon, but it is not animated. It then goes to the Galaxy logo, and to the BSOD.
I am NOT rooted or anything, so this is extra vexing. Any ideas?
Hi all,
Hoping i posted this in the correct section but i'll start off.
So i've had my S4 for about a year and a half now, a couple days ago the phone's started to act up. It turned off, wouldn't turn back on, i did the typical battery pull but the weird thing is when i did, the phone would vibrate right after i put it in, the GS4 logo comes up and then it just shuts off. I've tried to charge it and it won't work, tried doing a battery pull and then putting it back in then quickly plugging the charger in before it vibrates and nothing. Does anyone know what my issue could be? I can post some pictures to help reference but any knowledge on this would be greatly appreciated.
I'm on the latest Kit Kat update, running on rogers.
I hate to bump such an old thread, but I've looked and looked and haven't found many threads with this issue. So, might as well bring the issue to the front so it's visible.
I'm having this exact issue as of this morning. The phone shows the Samsung logo after booting up for a bout 1-2 seconds before turning off. Won't power on until the battery is pulled/replaced. Only powers on for 1-2 seconds again.
If it's plugged into the charger, the same thing happens, except instead of the Samsung logo, it's the empty battery logo with the cogwheel, before turning off 1-2 seconds later.
Worked fine last night, this morning, nothing.
Anyone experienced/resolved this issue?
Unfortunately, the exact same thing is happening with my phone as well now. About two hours ago I was playing a game and then the internet stopped working. Less than a minute later the phone turned off and now I can't boot up past the logo that is displayed for like a second.
Can you guys get into download mode? If so I'd Odin the stock firmware and see if the problem goes away.
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if all else fails you could pm OP and see what he did. he never posted again so may have got it working.
I was changing the boot animation on my moto and I had restarted afterwards and the phone turned off but didn't turn back on. I tried plugging it in for a little bit to see if it would turn on and it still would not turn on, nothing even came up on the screen, just the led blinks. I made backups of everything so I thought I would flash one back but when I held the buttons for recovery and still nothing will come on the screen. Can anyone help or suggest anything? I just got this phone less then a week ago, so I would rather not have it bricked already. Thanks for any help.
Update: I was finally able to get my phone back on after a couple of hours with a force start, now my roaming indicator is on and will not turn off.
My phone was acting normal until now. Today after completely draining the battery I went to plug it in at home. The usual battery charging picture appeared and I thought nothing of it. Then when I tried loading the phone, it loaded as normal till it got to the lock screen, where it showed the battery at 0%. If you leave the phone for a while, it goes back to booting and does the Android Animation for a long time before going back to that lock screen, showing 0% and repeating itself. If you try and login, by the time you get in, it will go back to the booting Android Animation.
I can't seam to get beyond this point. I tried turning off the phone completely, then turning it back on. I tried clearing the cache. Nothing. I am stock standard, not unlocked bootloader. I am on Android 8.1.0 Security Patch January 2018.
Any help would be appreciated.
Update:
Just letting you know it is.. 'fixed'. After unplugging the phone and letting it bootloop few times, it finally registered a battery level that wasn't 0%. It was 96% and as such ran like normal again. That being said, I am worried about this happening again, so I hardly think this is fixed, but just leaving this here for anyone else that comes across this problem. Also would love to hear any suggestions to possible fixes. Incase this was related to the other bootloop issues that cropped up last year, I have set my phone for OEM unlocking.
Save yourself the trouble and just unlock your bootloader now.