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help i9000 after flash, doing loop of at&t logo, can not enter download mode,

help i9000 after flash, doing loop of at&t logo, can not enter download mode,
when plugged in screen goes black.
!! if anyone can help please do not hesitate, mostly appreciated.

Try to hold the Down+Menu+Power combination while INSERTING the battery into the device.

i try that seem to have no response and when unplugged from usb it loop at&t logo
or plugged in usb screen goes black and no response seem from pressing buttons

I had a similar problem as most phones in Canada seem to have Download/Recovery mode disabled, and here is what worked for me.
Grab something like One Click Un Root (all models), and click one click un root (obviously phone has to be on and plugged into the computer).
This should automatically reboot you into Recovery Mode!
All you have to do is "wipe data/factory default" or something like that (should be the third option).
As it states, you will loose all your data, but at least you will have a functionning phone!

did it work?

Hi. I have similar problem. Can anybody give instruction what can I do?

I have this problem too. Please help somebody

Add me to the list. Bell Galaxy S, went to unlock my phone the screen went black. Now it will not boot into the OS, the galaxy S splash screen displays then nothing. The menu and back button light up, thats all. ****[email protected]@
I have not rooted or anything.
Of course my download mode does not work.. Going to try this one click root thing if I can find it.
NOT HAPPY

This is not working. Probably because the phone is not in USB debugging mode as I can't change it... Is there any other way to get the phone into recovery mode?
**** me

i had the same thing happen to me the other day with my bell galaxy s and my phone wont do the 3 button combo trick. i left my phone plugged in to a wall charger for a while until the back of the phone became a little warm. i pulled the battery and then left the power cord plugged in and put the battery back in. i held the volume down and enter button until the battery charging indicator showed up, then i also pressed and held the power button until the boot animation started (this is the blue moving swirl and music, not the galaxy s splash scree) and then i let go of the power button. it took a few attempts at this before it actually worked, but eventually it will go into download mode at which time you can open the odin app, then plug in the usb cable and flash your phone that way. it did seem to make a difference if the back of the phone (around the camera area) was warm. if i let go of the power button while the music was playing and the phone did not enter download mode i would keep all 3 buttons pressed until it shut down again, then i would only let go of the power button while the phone initiated the charging screen, then once the battery logo was displayed i would hold the 3 buttons again and would just keep doing this until it went into download mode. i have flashed it at least 5 times today and i have been able to do this each time.
i also had an issue where odin would not recognize my phone was plugged in and windows would show a message saying the usb device was not recognized. i left the phone plugged in and while in download mode i pressed the volume up, enter button and power button until the phone went blank and when the galaxy s logo showed up i let go of the power button and the phone would go into recovery mode and then the usb drivers would be installed. i would then do the 3 button combo for download mode and odin would work fine. it took several attempts but it does work. i hope this helps you guys

If I hold all three buttons the splash screen does not come on, it just keeps looping the Galaxy S logo until I let go of the power button....

xZeDgEx said:
If I hold all three buttons the splash screen does not come on, it just keeps looping the Galaxy S logo until I let go of the power button....
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That's what mine did too, several times in a row and then it worked. For some reason it only works after the battery is charging for a bit and the back becomes warm. then it works at will

No luck. I am probably screwed getting it exchanged now too as I am passed the 14 days from Best Buy.

the on click thing doesn't work, if your phone is already bricked.
also it is not the phone's fault for not working, the phone was working properly before you tried the hacks.
whenever you do these kind of things you know you are entering into the "not supported" "not covered by warranty" zone.
in the worse case scenario, if you can no enter download mode to recover your phone, it'll be to take the phone back to bell and claim warranty on it, and prentent you don't know what happened to it.
xZeDgEx said:
Add me to the list. Bell Galaxy S, went to unlock my phone the screen went black. Now it will not boot into the OS, the galaxy S splash screen displays then nothing. The menu and back button light up, thats all. [email protected]@
I have not rooted or anything.
Of course my download mode does not work.. Going to try this one click root thing if I can find it.
NOT HAPPY
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AllGamer said:
the on click thing doesn't work, if your phone is already bricked.
also it is not the phone's fault for not working, the phone was working properly before you tried the hacks.
whenever you do these kind of things you know you are entering into the "not supported" "not covered by warranty" zone.
in the worse case scenario, if you can no enter download mode to recover your phone, it'll be to take the phone back to bell and claim warranty on it, and prentent you don't know what happened to it.
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Its my fault??
I did not hack my phone. Its not rooted, I did nothing to it.
By "unlock" I meant exactly that, unlock as in swiping the screen to unlock it.
The more I search the net the more posts I find of Galaxy S phones randomly bricking...

on the original message sounded more like you went to Unlock the phone, as in SIM unlock the phone using any of the tools available out there, and there has been already several people which had the same problem.
if you go back to Bell for an exchange, you better not use the word "unlock" rather use Swipe
as the message on the phone "swipe the screen to unlock"
there are no known issue about this causing the phone to brick.
if that is what happened to you, you should have started a new topic for people to help you, instead of hijacking the topic from the OP, as your issue is different from OP, the OP actually screwed up because he/she flashed the wrong ROM to the i9000
... anyways, Does it work if you reboot the phone?

I have rebooted the phone about 100 times. The phone crashed when I unlocked it to check a text I received. (not hacked). Has not booted up properly since. I have found many others with the same issue who have also not hacked/rooted/unlocked/ their phones.
Waiting on Best Buy to call me back. I am so pissed right now, I have been bragging to my friends and co-workers how awesome this phone is, one has already picked one up, I hope his doesn't brick too. Not recommending it to anyone anymore..

did you load a lot of MP3 to the phone?
can you boot into Recovery Mode?
in the recovery mode you can wipe the Cache and wipe the data
that should make your phone work normal again
it'll be best to open a topic to help you trouble shoot your interesting issue, as it's the first i've hear that you get a black screen after Swiping out of the lock screen

I can't get into recovery mode. I have tried every button combination I have found. I had about 2 GB of music on the phone. I also installed the Android SDK to try ADB, but since the phone is not in USB debugging mode it does not see it.

xZeDgEx said:
I can't get into recovery mode. I have tried every button combination I have found. I had about 2 GB of music on the phone. I also installed the Android SDK to try ADB, but since the phone is not in USB debugging mode it does not see it.
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on the other topics relating to the 3 button not working.
have you tried the heating up method?
or the plugging the battery in, when all 3 buttons are pressed? (of course for this one you will need help from a friend, unless you are very skilled at keeping the 3 button on hold meanwhile able to slide in the battery in with out a 3rd hand)

Serious USB Port & Cable Problems - Anyone Else Have This?

Just laying this down somewhere so its out there and not cluttering up Thing O Doom's thread.
Update: Got a refund due to them being OOS to replace. Oh well, no transformer for me...
Had some problems with my TF101, seems its a hardware fault with the USB port.
First cable: Caused Reboot then semi bootloop
Second cable: Disabled Power Button.
Cant seem to find any other people with these problems so am going to return it and get a replacement seeing how Ive just bought case, screen protectors, silicon skin etc.
Like the tablet and for the price I got it for I defo want a fixed unit!
History of posts in other thread:
First Cable:​
After booting and the usb cable is attached it 'crashes' back to the main EEEPC logo screen and seems to be bootlooping except that it doesnt get to the boot animation. Just logo > black screen > logo > black screen.
Once cable is removed it boots and operates as normal until cable is plugged back in again.
I can get to recovery and use that no problem, even adb, but no go when booting into android.
Notes:
It worked before the rooting as was using it to do the rooting
If I plug it in at ANY point itll do it, powered off, boot animation, launcher etc
adb works fine in recovery
Havnt flashed a new rom yet as just got back from work
Update 1: Factory rest in TWRP = Problem still persists
Update 2: Wiped all partition (except sd) and restored backup after first root = Upon first connection it 'crashed' but this time rebooted to the os. This time Battery was 0% and crashed again when going into settings.
Update 3: Holy s*** - It does it even when not plugged into a PC! Just plugged the cable in by itself and it did it WTF!
Either the cable or connector is faulty Will have to try another cable but wont get one till next week now. If it does the same Im gonna have to send tablet back. FFS.
It must be cable as AC fits nice and tight (first time I used it was before rooting) while the USB is slightly loose and not as 'snug'
Why does it work fine in recovery though?
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Looking at my amazon purchase Im thinking it isnt a genuine cable and cheapo knock-off (wasnt cheap cash-wise!)
Wondering if its something to do with the charging pins and it trying to charge but do data at the same time causing it to 'crash'. Could have been knocked out of place as the first time id used it was to use the root tool.
Anyway, when my new cable arrives Ill move this to a new thread if needed but for now Ill leave the post here in case any one else stumbles across it.
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Second Cable​
Well, its definitely looking a hardware problem as this new cable that came today does similar except that it only turns the screen off but doesnt reboot it. Cant turn the screen on until the cable is removed.
I got it connected to PC with the new cable as well as adb was working etc but no screen
Going to return it for a replacement if I can manage to get it returned to stock rom and recovery.
Everything else on the tablet works fine except the one thing I needed to work 100% lol just my luck
;edit; ...wtf...Flashed to stock and both cables are new cable is working fine...Will have to see wth is going on later when I get back from work
;edit2; Nope it just disables the power button so I cant turn the screen back on. This feckers going back!
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Shield won't start

Hello everyone!
I was using the Shield (pro model, 500gb) and suddenly it won't respond to the remote control. I turned the Shild off and then tried to turn it on, but it won't. When I try to turn it on the shield button turns green but only for 1 second and then turns off. Nothing is displayed on the TV. I have tried many times turning on the Shield and it only turns green the button for one second and then turns off.
I have tried the instructions provided here, but to no avail: http://support-shield.nvidia.com/android-tv-user-guide/index.htm#t=Reset_SHIELD.htm
Has anyone encontered this issue and resolved it? Don't know how to recover my device now
Thanks a lot for your help!
Best regards,
David.

austmathr said:
Hello everyone!
I was using the Shield and suddenly it won't respond to the remote control. I turned the Shild off and then tried to turn it on, but it won't. When I try to turn it on the shield button turns green but only for 1 second and then turns off. Nothing is displayed on the TV. I have tried many times turning on the Shield and it only turns green the button for one second and then turns off.
I have tried the instructions provided here, but to no avail: http://support-shield.nvidia.com/android-tv-user-guide/index.htm#t=Reset_SHIELD.htm
Has anyone encontered this issue and resolved it? Don't know how to recover my device now
Thanks a lot for your help!
Best regards,
David.
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Im not a expert in this sphere, but according your written the power button on Shield not lights and this happened without your interfering, my guessing and opinion sounds like you have hardware problem, this symptoms not sounds like software. Try this one and or not I would go sending back by warranty!
https://youtu.be/2AzHF-uNiY8
Izsūtīts no manas Nokia 3310 используя бесплатную xda app
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austmathr said:
Hello everyone!
I was using the Shield and suddenly it won't respond to the remote control. I turned the Shild off and then tried to turn it on, but it won't. When I try to turn it on the shield button turns green but only for 1 second and then turns off. Nothing is displayed on the TV. I have tried many times turning on the Shield and it only turns green the button for one second and then turns off.
I have tried the instructions provided here, but to no avail: http://support-shield.nvidia.com/android-tv-user-guide/index.htm#t=Reset_SHIELD.htm
Has anyone encontered this issue and resolved it? Don't know how to recover my device now
Thanks a lot for your help!
Best regards,
David.
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...and BTW you have 16gb or 500gb console?
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I have a pro (500gb) model. Thanks, I'm going to try this and report back my findings.
Thanks!

Hello again!
I tried what is mentioned on the video but it does not enter into bootloader. The video mentions to press the nvidia button two times and in the first time the green light keeps on. In my case, when I press the first time, even if I keep pressing, the green light just turns on for 1 second and goes off. The second time it is the same, and actually nothing happens
Anyone has encountered this issue?
thanks!

Did you manage to eventually get this sorted?
I have an almost identical problem; the remote for my SATV Pro stopped responding, mid-session, one day.
I had to pull the plug and it would no longer boot, thereafter.
The light will stay on indefinitely, it seems - I left it on overnight to test.
It won't enter the bootloader menu, either; if I hold the power button for 6 seconds, the light switches off and I can still hear the harddrive.

when trying the push button method do not forget,the USB and HDMI should be plugged to each device before start. me I just press for start then I instantly press again and hold,works well .

Did you figure out what happened and if there is a fix for this? My Nvidia Shield Pro is having the exact issue and unfortunately my unit is a month over the warranty period =(.

Same light flash for a second after power, but nothing after. I'm thinking it must be a hardware issue, but how to troubleshoot it? Wish an nVidia engineer would help out.

My 2015 Shield 16GB went dark today and I have the LED on for 6-10 seconds after replugging, and then it shuts itself off. I only see the green Shield logo for few seconds. Tried going into bootloader, but there it too shuts down after few seconds...

same her mine just gave up.

Was Shield Experience 8.2.1 recently released or am I just seeing it now for some reason? Maybe that's what caused your problems?
edit: seems like there are issues with the TV trying to go from 7 directly to 8.2.1. See the sticky:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforc...ield-experience-upgrade-821released-11162020/

after one night unplugged i got it booting again and it run for about 10 minutes or so.
efter that i have now tried toapply new cooling paste and even tried with another power adapter, but noting seems to help so far.
and as some one else up there said, i can still hear the hdd spin

A very similar thing has happened to me but maybe my difference can shed light on this issue?
I was cleaning (sweeping specifically) and accidentally turned the shield on. I pressed the touch button on the front of the shield to put it back to sleep and I then heard a *pop* sound. After that the shield will only turn on for a second, the green light will come on for a second and then it will switch off.
I opened it up (pretty easy with just my finger nails even) and I can hear sounds coming from the mainboard when I plug it in, like it's still receiving power even though it wont turn on.
I have little to no experience repairing electronics but my assumtion is I discharged enough static to blow the power button board on the front of shield unit.
Also to add, the shield unit will not respond to the inputs of a controller or a keyboard that has been paired with it.
I identified the infinitesimally thin wires that connect the touch power button to the main board but they dont seem to be damaged themselves - I plugged the power supply in while each side was disconnected and the shield unit turned on when I reconnected the wires.
I'm going to assume that if I can replace the power button board on the front of the unit it will work again but I'm not sure and cant be sure unless I can get a spare part.
Or maybe I should just take it to a repair shop?
Has anyone managed to get their unit working properly after this specific issue.
Side note: it's strange how many others have this exact same issue in this exact month isnt it?

Just following up a little bit.
I got a new power supply from Ebay to see if that would make a difference.
It did not - the power supply is not the issue.
Oh just to add - I tried cloning the original drive but I was still able to read it on my computer and the drive-clone didn't change the outcome so that wasnt the issue either.

overdrivepower said:
Just following up a little bit.
I got a new power supply from Ebay to see if that would make a difference.
It did not - the power supply is not the issue.
Oh just to add - I tried cloning the original drive but I was still able to read it on my computer and the drive-clone didn't change the outcome so that wasnt the issue either.
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I turned mine off at the device last night and, pop, a huge static discharge from my finger. My Shield now exhibits the same behavior as everyone else in this thread.
Just wondering if you or anyone else every figured out a fix? Possibly blow fuse or capacitor in the power circuitry?

No change in status.
I'd like to still fix mine but I ended up buying a mini PC, which is a million times better than a proprietary-hardware device.
It's not locked down like an android only device (even though it runs on win10) and I can do much more with it than just watch movies and play android games/apps.
Anyway if anyone else can find a solution to this that'd be great.

D
DreadfulDrummer said:
Did you manage to eventually get this sorted?
I have an almost identical problem; the remote for my SATV Pro stopped responding, mid-session, one day.
I had to pull the plug and it would no longer boot, thereafter.
The light will stay on indefinitely, it seems - I left it on overnight to test.
It won't enter the bootloader menu, either; if I hold the power button for 6 seconds, the light switches off and I can still hear the harddrive.
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Did you remember to connect it to a PC via USB first?
Cause if not... Well theres your first problem.

Same here, stuck at circles........
Nvidia Shield TV Pro 16GB 4K HDR

All right guys, I'm back with the following steps
If you own a SHIELD Controller
• Unplug SHIELD TV.
• Connect SHIELD controller to SHIELD TV with a USB cable (use port closest to HDMI).
• While holding the A and B buttons at the same time, connect power to SHIELD TV.
If you do not own a SHIELD controller
• Unplug SHIELD TV.
• Connect a USB keyboard directly to SHIELD TV (use port closest to HDMI)
• While holding the "A" and "B" keys down at the same time, connect power to SHIELD TV.
• Once you enter Fast Boot mode, on the keyboard use the "X" and "Y" keys to navigate the menu and "A" to select
Use the X and Y buttons on the controller to move to "Boot recovery kernel".
3. Press the A button to select "Boot Recovery Kernel".
4. You may see the dead Android robot on screen. This is expected behavior. If so, press B button on the controller.
5. You will see Android Recovery Menu.
6. Use the X and Y buttons on the controller to move to "wipe data/factory reset".
7. Press the A button to select "wipe data/factory reset".
8. After process select "reboot system now".
8. SHIELD will boot to home screen.
Do the factory reset
It will bring you back to recovery
Select "Continue"
device will process and reboot like new
Hope this works....ENJOY
It did for me
I received the above info while chatting with Nvidias tech support

Mojo Wont turn on, no blue light.

Got the mojo a couple of days ago, spend a couple of nights rooting and setting up Kodi. All going well. But then I decided I need to use an external Hard Drive due to the ammount of ROMs i will be using, and for easier access blah blah.
This turned out not so easy, Mojo wont recognise anything and then randomly crashed. I waited 15 mins, still crashed. No option but to pull the plug. But once I put the plug in nothing happens. I can see a blue light inside the unit, the HDMI switcher recognises it, but there is no blue light on the front and no signal on the TV. Seems it may be bricked...all I did was plug an external HDD into it.
Any tips to get it booted again or is it time to send it back? Ill be sending it back regardless if I cannot get an external HDD working, but thats another question all together.
Thanks

Try this button combination
Plug in an external keyboard to the USB 3.0 port, then press Alt+Print Screen+i, it should boot you into recovery, then you should be able to boot into System. If this doesn't work, just keep pressing Alt+Print Screen+i. The only thing that I think you needed to do before that is flash TWRP, If you didn't you are screwed.

Sweaty Palmer said:
Plug in an external keyboard to the USB 3.0 port, then press Alt+Print Screen+i, it should boot you into recovery, then you should be able to boot into System. If this doesn't work, just keep pressing Alt+Print Screen+i. The only thing that I think you needed to do before that is flash TWRP, If you didn't you are screwed.
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This has been a great bit of info - thanks. I was stuck on a black screen on CM12.1 and thought theMojo was completely dead. Up and running again.

Bricked Son's Tab?

I tried to partition the ExSD of my son's tablet using TWRP reading step by step off XDA. I wiped cache and dalvik cache, mounted, booted to system, but it went to a blank screen. Now it seems to never power on, cant get the screen to show ANYTHING, and will not show anything even when plugged into a computer. I have tried multiple cables and chargers with nothing being different. I even tried swapping the battery with the one from my daughter's identical tablet. Is it possible to corrupt so much the device doesn't have an understanding of what to do when power button is pressed?
I leave Tues for a month in Ft. Polk and my son will likely drive my wife nuts, MAYBE someone can help?

Recovery Mode?
Have you tried to press and hold (if I recall correctly) the power, home and volume up button? That should take you to the recovery mode.
hope that was helpfull.

Mr.HappyBear said:
Have you tried to press and hold (if I recall correctly) the power, home and volume up button? That should take you to the recovery mode.
hope that was helpfull.
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Mr. Happy Bear, yes I have. I have tried every possible combination of button pushing with and without the charger and or cable in a computer plugged in.
Was hoping someone knew of a hardware button or ribbon cable on a board I could switch or press that would be able to use.
Thanks for trying though.