While setting up an app, the phone froze completely. I've already tried pressing the power button for 15 seconds, and even more, but with no success.
Even tried removing the SIM and put it back on to see if it would trigger the input PIN dialog but also without success.
The phone screen is still on, on the moment it froze (even showing at what time it froze) and is completely unresponsive.
Any ideas on how to proceed ?
Cheers!
pwhatz said:
While setting up an app, the phone froze completely. I've already tried pressing the power button for 15 seconds, and even more, but with no success.
Even tried removing the SIM and put it back on to see if it would trigger the input PIN dialog but also without success.
The phone screen is still on, on the moment it froze (even showing at what time it froze) and is completely unresponsive.
Any ideas on how to proceed ?
Cheers!
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Fixed. Hard reset (Power Button + Volume Up)
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My MDA now all of a sudden keeps locking up on boot-up. It gets to the Today screen and then locks up. I can't do a darn thing. I can hit the power button and it turns the backlight on and off. But I can't turn the phone off or on once it's locked up. All I can do is take the battery out to turn the phone off. But when I go to turn it back on, it just locks up. I can't get it to do a damn thing. Now its says Rebooting in Safe Mode.....and is locked up. I have no clue what to do. I'm on Cust ROM 2.21.
Any ideas?
The same thing just happened to my SIM unlocked 8125 today! I can't even hard reset it. I am on 2.25. I can soft reset it, but a hard rest won't work... I am lost, it worked flawlessly for 5 days, I hung up with a telephone call today and boom, junk... Any ideas how to help me get this thing hard reset? If i press com button and voice button and hit reset, it is just as though I did a soft rest.
So i got it unfrozen by reflashing with the Cingular 225 ROM. Then I had to reload all my crap, well, just a couple of apps... I turned off the phone last night and now when I turn it on this morning, same friggin junk! This is going to suck if I have to keep reloading... The only installed apps were:
spb pocketplus 3.0
AEBPlus and devicelock to map comm button
Any ideas??
Try restarting (soft) with the SD removed. Double check that you have operability after bootup, then reinsert card and verify it is accessing it properly (load a file explorer). Then, do another restart with the card in (by holding down the power button, not the softrestart button) to verify all is good.
It just happened to me about half an hour ago but figured out how to get it running again. Decided to search for "safe mode" to see if there's another way around it, and came up with this post
Hey, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, I didn't have a sd card in the phone, I am still waiting for it to be delivered. I have found that by not turning the unit off (holding power button down) it has not happened again. I have also opted not to install any applications until I get my card.
I will play more some other day. I will come back and post a result.
I've got the case mate barely there case and removing it is a pain on the odd occassion that the HD2 hangs. Is there a way of restarting it without a battery pull? I've tried holding the power button for a while to no avail.
trying setting the send key to a run a reset program when long pressed. I have found that even when my phone hangs, most of the time, it can still reset this way.
My battery goes emty, when i looked at screen it was saying
Storage reset done (or something)
<MENU> reset phone
only option was menu so i pressed it and when phone turned on it was no phone numbers calls etc...
It happened few weeks earlier but i tought it was my mistake or some...
Now it happened again...
Thanks in advance
When u get it again, just pull out the battery without selecting anything. If you have trouble, flash to it stock using a RUU.
Problem is:
it was sayin storage reset.... done.
and i think that phone reseted before i pressed menu...
also first time i didnt see this screen at all(maybe it was there but i pressed button while phone was in my pocket)
When your phone wasin the pocket, you might have accidentally hit the button combos when it was off.
You usually have this option in VOL DOWN + POWER or HOME+POWER.
Hello, recently my phone has been having issues. The power button stopped work, it started first when I would unlock my phone, it would give me the power down screen then a few seconds later it would shut off.
Now it wont turn on... I have to pull the battery out and then put it back in then it shows the samsung logo and shuts off. To get pass the samsung logo I held the volume up button and then it will start up. I can only use my phone when I unlock with the camera which is very annoying.
I have tried just about everything and I have scoured the web to look for any sort of solution. I have hard rest, and I even tried flashing it with a rom. But the phone just shuts down.
I hate being a pain, but is there any solution?
megaalgos said:
Hello, recently my phone has been having issues. The power button stopped work, it started first when I would unlock my phone, it would give me the power down screen then a few seconds later it would shut off.
Now it wont turn on... I have to pull the battery out and then put it back in then it shows the samsung logo and shuts off. To get pass the samsung logo I held the volume up button and then it will start up. I can only use my phone when I unlock with the camera which is very annoying.
I have tried just about everything and I have scoured the web to look for any sort of solution. I have hard rest, and I even tried flashing it with a rom. But the phone just shuts down.
I hate being a pain, but is there any solution?
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Sounds like a hardware problem. Are you under warranty?
unfortunately, no I am not...
megaalgos said:
unfortunately, no I am not...
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Luckily, I think the button is easy to change and it's cheap. But I'd go to a phone shop to confirm first (like this one in US - no affiliation, found via search).
experiencing the same thing
megaalgos said:
Hello, recently my phone has been having issues. The power button stopped work, it started first when I would unlock my phone, it would give me the power down screen then a few seconds later it would shut off.
Now it wont turn on... I have to pull the battery out and then put it back in then it shows the samsung logo and shuts off. To get pass the samsung logo I held the volume up button and then it will start up. I can only use my phone when I unlock with the camera which is very annoying.
I have tried just about everything and I have scoured the web to look for any sort of solution. I have hard rest, and I even tried flashing it with a rom. But the phone just shuts down.
I hate being a pain, but is there any solution?
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Hi im actually getting the exact same symptom. Did you ever get to fix yours??
I have the strangest damn problem on my phone. Sometimes, when I press the power button to turn the screen off, the phone just shuts down completely and then when I try to reboot won't get past my splash screen. When this first happened I couldn't get the phone restarted at all, even by taking the battery out and waiting for over 10 minutes. Everytime I tried booting it would go to the splash screen and then blank back off. It would do this once and then I had to remove and replace the battery just to get it to boot to the splash screen again. I thought this might have something to do with having a custom rom installed (sacs custom), so I played around with the phone and managed to get it in Odin mode. I then brought the phone back to stock. Everything worked so I figured I had fixed it, but then after pressing the power button one time I got back the same problem. It shutdown and would not restart past the splash screen. In retrospect, I think when I pressed the power button the screen did not immediately go off and so I clicked it a couple times in a row before it crashed, that may be what triggers it, b/c sometimes i press the power/screen button and it goes off without incident.
So, now I had the phone back to stock and had the same problem. It turned off and would not boot past the splash screen. By a stroke of good fortune I figured out how to get the phone booting again past the splash screen. When the splash screen came up, I started repeatedly touching and swiping at the phone; drawing little circles tapping at it, etc... When I did this the phone continued to load and boot up normally.
I installed AVG antivirus, to see if maybe there was malware on my phone. Scans showed nothing. I updated all of the software as well. I now have an app installed for turning off the phone instead of using the power button. This of course is not an ideal situtation, why should pressing the power button crash my phone like this??