After playing around with my new gtablet for a bit, I went to shut it down... The device is stuck on "Power off, Shutting down" screen...been over an hour, pretty sure it's not going to shut down. The battery is fully charged, and I've tried holding down power, plus various combinations of power and volume, but I can't seem to find a way to force the power off... Any suggestions? Guess by morning the battery will be dead...
So... I got impatient and opened it up to hit the reset button... Not sure why they didn't leave a little hole in the case to allow you to reset the device in these situations... I plan to drill a hole soon.
There are some helpful tips for disassembly in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842354
I was thinking of drilling a small reset hole.
It would be nice to have a hole for the reset button. Haven't needed it yet though. My G-Tab (at least is behaves that way) will force power down if you hold the power button for about five seconds.
I never read the manual to see if this was an included feature. I just did it one day instinctively thinking it would force power down like a regular PC. It did....
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I recently flashed CM9 (throwing that out there incase it is of some reasoning but I doubt it) and I've had my phone since November.
I flashed CM9 9/25 Nightly like 2 or 3 days ago (absolutely love it by the way, smoothest build/rom for the Skyrocket thus far) No problems with the Rom I might add, just my phone had just randomly restarted on its own twice while using it (nothing happened, just started right back up).
However the 3rd time, it randomly restarted and never booted back up. It vibrates and then reboots before it even gets to the Samsung screen and reboots/vibrates again (2 second intervals or so). The furthest it gets is like 5 seconds into the CM9 logo and then it'll reboot. It does the usual thin white line as it restarts and just gets stuck there. Can't get to Recovery for more than a few seconds before it reboots (not long enough for Touch to settle and do anything) and it won't get to Download Mode fast enough. Any ideas or any way to get data off /emmc? Don't want to lose a bunch of pictures/videos.
I have a replacement coming within the next days so I have about 2 weeks to either get lucky and get up long enough to save my data or somehow find a solution (doubt it). I already took it apart and swapped screens because I had busted the screen before and put the broken one in incase by some miracle the new one was causing it (no luck).
No water damage or anything to the phone, just randomly rebooted those times while texting or listening to music/what not and now it's pooped.
Any suggestions?
Tried without the battery (via usb/pc or AC source), without sim/microsd, etc. and nothing. Assuming I'm just SOL.
Edit: Side note, I got terrible battery life with this phone. I could only get 2 hours of screen-on time if I was LUCKY on Mobile and maaaybe 3 if I was on WIFI. The most I ever got was 5 hours on WIFI with a 3850mAh Extended Battrey (so even though it was a cheap battery, I'm thinking the phone had a problem from the get-go).
You Could Have A Stuck Power Button. To Fix That Try To Repeatedly Keep Pushing The Power Button Hard To Try To Unstick It. or try taking it apart and clean the power button
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You Could Have A Stuck Power Button. To Fix That Try To Repeatedly Keep Pushing The Power Button Hard To Try To Unstick It. or try taking it apart and clean the power button
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This was my first thought, didn't make a difference no matter how I did it. Appreciate the idea though.
[SOLVED] It is indeed the power button.
I took it apart again and thoroughly mashed the power button plenty and gave it a good few breaths of fresh air.
After that I realized that, I put it back together and realized that if I held the power button right after the phone vibrated it seemed to get to the CM9 symbol more often.
So I mashed the power button a ton more, shook the phone like hell and smashed it against my palm a few times and...it booted! I was able to get everything off of it and reset flash/counter/restore to stock all without ever touching the power button. Screen Timeout @ 30 and using ADB is your friend. Now just to see if it magically works till my replacement gets here lol.
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[SOLVED] It is indeed the power button.
I took it apart again and thoroughly mashed the power button plenty and gave it a good few breaths of fresh air.
After that I realized that, I put it back together and realized that if I held the power button right after the phone vibrated it seemed to get to the CM9 symbol more often.
So I mashed the power button a ton more, shook the phone like hell and smashed it against my palm a few times and...it booted! I was able to get everything off of it and reset flash/counter/restore to stock all without ever touching the power button. Screen Timeout @ 30 and using ADB is your friend. Now just to see if it magically works till my replacement gets here lol.
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i know its sounds too simplistic as to blame a sticky power button and users dismiss the idea because they'll blame themselves, a bad flash, or the rom, but a reboot at a 8-10sec interval is the power button internal switch making contact, sometimes its an easy fix or sometimes it takes more than a few tries, or taking it apart to clean the internals
My phone goes anywhere now from 10 seconds to a full day without having a reboot with continuous vibration at 2 second intervals. Flashed to stable ROM's so that's definitely not the issue. I've had this phone since Christmas 2011 so I'm assuming I don't have warranty? You guys just unscrewed the screws and got into the internals I'm assuming?
Hello,
Yesterday my Nexus5 won't turn on when pushing the power button. After plugging it into the Charger it kept on bootlooping at the Google Logo.
When i got home i disconnected the battery and tried again - same issue.
Did some Research after that at and came to the conclusion that my internal power button got somehow "stuck". So i disassembled the phone and tried to pull out the white little power button on the motherboard but it didn't help - the button also doesn't seem to be stuck.
Any one of you with input regarding this Issue? It Phone now randomly boots up for 3-4 Seconds and turns itself off again after that.
Some people on reddit and xda recommened on "smashing" the phone a little bit on the table to unstuck the button but that didn't help either.
thank you
From what I've read the metal piece that the white power button is pushing in is getting stuck, not the actual button itself. I ran into this with my N5 a few weeks ago. People suggested a few fixes: flicking the power button with your finger and storing the phone next to a strong magnet. Not sure how good of an idea the magnet idea is, but the flicking temporarily helped for me, enough to break it from the loop at any rate. Sounds like that didn't really help for you though.
I ended up taking it to a repair shop (out of warranty) and they soldered on a new power switch for ~$60. They didn't seem overly confident it would work, but it's working just fine now.
I'm not sure if anyone is still using this forum, so hopefully someone can help me.
I hit the power button when I was typing on the keyboard the other day. It shut off the screen as expected, there wasn't any rough handling or anything but the screen now won't turn on even at startup. It still registers touch input which seems weird to me.
Although it shouldn't apply, I am running some variation of CM.
I'll try whatever I can for diagnostics.
Well first and foremost I would try to use the two-button key sequence to force turn the device OFF (power + vol down IIRC) - hold those two for ~30 sec. Device should be OFF. Then hold only the power button (~5 sec) and it should turn back ON.
If you are still having issues, you may in fact have a hardware problem.
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Well first and foremost I would try to use the two-button key sequence to force turn the device OFF (power + vol down IIRC) - hold those two for ~30 sec. Device should be OFF. Then hold only the power button (~5 sec) and it should turn back ON.
If you are still having issues, you may in fact have a hardware problem.
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Yeah, I have rebooted before. I gave it another go and still no luck. The first time around I let the battery drain completely, recharged, and started it back up with the issue persisting.
Given that this is likely a hardware problem I would need to buy a torx set to fix it and I'm not sure it's going to be worth it if I end up having to buy parts too.
It would be easier if you backup your device blind and buy another PQ where you restore your backup.
I think the display connector on the motherboard is damaged and not just the ribbon cable. Why I think that? Well, more a guess. I opened my PQ once and noticed that the connector was weird, kind of loose.
But the ribbon cable was a bit damaged (the bit between the display and the main-device). Some tape was enough but I don't think that this was going to be a problem.
...i mean it is backlight IC problem
Very confused as to what happened to my favorite phone ever.
All was smooth, I fell asleep without charging it which was unusual. Woke up, phone is off & will not power up.
Plugged it up, still nothing.
Fast forward to now, I purchased a new battery (factory) & external wall charger thinking that was the prob b/c there were red dots on the little white battery circles (sorry but no clue what the official name for those are) but still absolutely nothing.
I have no clue what caused the original battery to get damaged/wet. Nothing was spilled, it wasn't dropped.
It's incredibly frustrating.
Now trying all the "push this button, hold that button" recovery tricks that I have combed through and it still will not do a thing whatsoever, zero reaction.
My g5 has officially left the building hasn't it?
So what, if anything, can I try at this point?
I've tried the volume down & power button combo, also tried the volume down wait see logo then press power button...etc...
Willing to try just about anything... I realllly love that rude ass phone!
Hi All,
I am having a bit of trouble with my Galaxy S6 device. I am unsure if this was the cause of my issue, though yesterday I had dropped my phone from a short distance. When I had picked my phone back up it was powered off and would not turn back on. This is not the first time my device has powered down from a fall, and this is not the first time I had difficulty rebooting my device.
My phone does not appear to be responsive to any attempts, nor does it indicate by LED that it is charging. When I dropped the device, I was just then taking it off the charger as the battery was at full/near full.
I have tried holding the power button, holding the power button and volume buttons, holding the power button and each of the volume buttons on their own, as well as holding the power button, volume down button, and the home button. I have not had any luck with any of these solutions, nor was the device responsive to any of these solutions.
When I plug the phone into its charger, the power brick does appear to be warm, though this may just be wishful thinking on my part. I have tried the power brick that came with the device as well as a third party power brick.
At this point I am going to try to get into recovery via ABD, but I am not confident that my device will even be recognized by my computer.
Many of my online accounts have an authenticator from my phone tied to them, I am desperate to get access to this again. Is there anything else that I have failed to try?
Many Thanks.
EDIT: I would also like to make note that I have taken very good care of my device and that there is no outward physical damage to the device. With this being said, is it possible that the drop could have rendered an issue with the internal components? Perhaps my device was still on and the screen just went out on me? Though would this also render the LED indicator inoperable as well? Perhaps the battery was jostled loose? Though in such as tightly packed unit, would this even be possible?