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Captivate Hardware Reset Button

Hey, Just thought I should post this... To reset the Captivate without removing the battery, there is a connection on the board called "TP". It is right below the MMC card and you can barely see it with the phone's case on it. Here is a picture of the rear case removed. The TP is the white dot. It is covered with white paint to avoid accidental connection.
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You can stick a needle through and ground "TP" to the side of the SDCard. Your phone will reset.
It's a signal line. and it's separated from bat+ by 1000ohms.

Thats very useful. Thanks!

Will this reset work on "soft" bricks and/or paperweight states?
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It will work on soft bricks. I'd like to see how a hard brick would react to UART communications. I've got one comming, so I will be able to tell you more soon.

This is a great find for flashing addicts. Thanks so much for sharing this. When I get to my PC I will hit the thanks button.
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I've found it quite useful... but I've been doing some non-standard things with my phone...

That looks sick! Someone's been having fun. Has your phone orbited the Earth yet?

Haha not quite... I've been researching non-invasive methods of recovering bricks, and it requires invasive techniques for analysis. Its amazing how many people brick their phones and how expensive jtag methods are.

Doesn't work on Hard Bricks. Tested.

So is it possible to fix a soft brick using this method instead of making a jig?
On my way home right now, guess I will find out soon enough, thank you

Wasn't quite sure what it was gonna do, and hoping it would magically get me into download mode, where the usb or power wouldn't. big down side, it botch'd something in my hardware, and my battery will no longer charge, can not run the phone without being pluged into the wall or pc. unbricked using a standard ol jig, flashed to 2.1 via 1 click, dunno if it just fried battery or did something else. Any ideas what to trouble shoot first? i've tried reflashing, few different roms, tried reseting battery stats, tried factory reset via settings, and via 1 click with no luck, wont be able to test another battery till tomorrow

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Wasn't quite sure what it was gonna do, and hoping it would magically get me into download mode, where the usb or power wouldn't. big down side, it botch'd something in my hardware, and my battery will no longer charge, can not run the phone without being pluged into the wall or pc. unbricked using a standard ol jig, flashed to 2.1 via 1 click, dunno if it just fried battery or did something else. Any ideas what to trouble shoot first? i've tried reflashing, few different roms, tried reseting battery stats, tried factory reset via settings, and via 1 click with no luck, wont be able to test another battery till tomorrow
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You did something else....
I used this method about 50 times consecutively. No ideas for you on your issue.
This reboots the phone and that's it. Its easy for bench testing purposes. How long did you hold it?

Just until the screen shut off, then released, not really what sure happened. Is there something rom side that controls the charging of the battery or is it strictly hardware?
Just hoping battery just decided to die, needed excuse to get a bigger one anyways.
Edit-Yeah definetly thinking battery is bad now, it showed 100% charge this morning finally, but as soon as i unplugged from wall it died, plugged it back in and was showing it dead again. Soo hmm, dunno sound like bad battery? fixin to make the 30min trip to ATT store to see if they can check it or swap it.

just wanted to say, i wasn't trying to imply the reset you pointed out had killed the phone, i just wasn't quite sure what happened, and this had been one of the last things i had done.
I just didn't realize a battery could go that quickly, had it tested today, and the guy at store said i was the first person he could tell without a shadow of a doubt there battery was dead.
1500mAH battery, and it read dead at first then full charge on tester at 28mAH.

This looks very interesting and I would like to try it out. Before I try it, I was wondering if you could explain it more in depth like if the battery should be in the phone, if it is necessary for the battery to be fully charged and if this method will work on all Captivates. I also noticed a number on your sd card slot that is different than mine but I assume all phones have a different one. Thanks in advance

Please comment. Do you have this issue? Help troubleshooting.

Ok we all know that this phone is far from perfect and when we got the first MT off of Craigslist in kinda rough shape I assumed previous abuse to be the cause of the issue. However after bugging VM for a week we got a new replacment. The issue was instantly there on the brand new phone.
Let's see if I explain. Our phone has no back cover and I'm thinking there lies the problem but want people to test the theroy. Problem presents itself when taking pictures no matter camera setting. You are able to get several snaps in a row at times only two. Then when it happens, right as the shutter closes it reboots. I'm talking instantly at the MOTO splash. Then the reboot takes 6-7 minutes at the boot animation if you let it start back up by itself. If at the reboot I pull battery and replace/reboot the device it will boot fast like normal 1-2 mins. The phone seems to have electrical contact points that would be in contact with the back cover (ground). However searching and searching on Google and I find many camera issues present, but not a single reference to this. That's why I'm curious if people can please remove your back covers and snap some pics at random and see if anyone can repeat the problem. If its the back cover being missing that's causing it I will just get a new one and be done chasing logcats and digging trying to fix it. I have never had a back cover but with lack of documentation of others with this problem I'm leaning to that being the problem.
So please pop the cover off and snap some pics give it a chance it happens sometimes on the 1st pic or the tenth. It's random so give it a minute.
I wanna get it fixed cause its the wifes phone. She's a photo taking crazy lady who get quite mad about needing to reboot between snapshots.
Thanks for anyone's input in advance.
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Is your phone rooted ? & on a custom rom ? My phone runs CM7 as does my wife's Triumph & she is a photo crazy lady too, she's never complained to me about this issue. Our phones are on Whyzor's 2012-1-26 build as all seems well, but i'll snap off some photo's to be sure & will post the results.

My theory is that's its cause I bought the phone used minus the back cover and upon removing the case to see the back of the phone I see connections that look like they would connect if the cover where there.
I used to think it was something with the one phone so we wiggled our way around with VM and got them to finally send a brand new replacement with no back of course. Your supposed to keep the old one. I never had it. So since the new phone had the same "camera shutter causes reboot" and i can't find another case from any other corner of the net. And I looked. I really looked. I am only left with the absence of the back cover. So I want to see if camera usage with the battery cover of will cause the issue on other MT devices.
The problem happened on miui cm7 and stock. The new phones fresh out of the box but I rooted it by symlinking the sudo files to su and now I don't even need superuser I just have root plain and simple. So its not software as far as I can tell. I'm lost if someone can't repeat the issue with there battery cover off.
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I added a picture. Does anyone maybe smarter know what the little metal connections on the back here are. Seems there are five of them. Three along the left side two on the right
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Well I have taken like 20 pics just now with the back off and no reboots. Some people have claimed that it's grounding and their touchscreen doesn't work properly with it off. I can take off my cover and use everything on the phone properly so I don't know if its actually grounding or not... I'm gonna be taking my phone apart in the next few days so I can look more into it then.

I'm just at a loss then it makes no sense to have two phones one old rooted rom flashed device and a new stock rooted device and have the same issue that I can't find anyone that has mentioned it. I looked at over 250+ forum posts on probaly 6 sites and can't find a single similar instance I can get a logcat for the reboots on both devices here in a few and see if someone can spot the problem in the logs. Gimme a few hours I'm away from a pc. But I gotta send the phone back within 12 days I'm determined to figure it out. Any advice where to begin looking?
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It sounds like you may have just gotten 2 phones that have some sort of grounding issues. I mean there's no way to know for sure, but it could be possible that you got 2 phones that have issues. Another thing is you might be able to ask VM if they can send you a battery cover and see if that actually fixes the problem.

I've never even seen the battery covers are they conductive? Plastic or metal at those points? Never had the pleasure of actually having one. I'll post some logcats to pastebin. I'm gonna reflash both phones to factory settings and unroot. Revert to stock recovery, and off fresh boots do the exact same steps to cause a reboot while I got a logcat running. Hopefully the same errors are noticable on both devices and can find a point to start at.
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mikedavis120 said:
I've never even seen the battery covers are they conductive? Plastic or metal at those points? Never had the pleasure of actually having one. I'll post some logcats to pastebin. I'm gonna reflash both phones to factory settings and unroot. Revert to stock recovery, and off fresh boots do the exact same steps to cause a reboot while I got a logcat running. Hopefully the same errors are noticable on both devices and can find a point to start at.
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Well yes the back actually does have metal contacts at those points. I don't know if they are actually used for grounding. Another possibility is its used for RF shielding, but that shouldn't effect things like the camera. Yea see what the logcats find.
Edit: I've attached an image of what the battery cover looks like.

Well I'm on my way to go sit down flash to stock and run some logcats so i can see if anything pops up. I'll try to make a video to so you can see what its doing for yourself. I'll record it and upload it to YouTube and link it here.
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Well I'm on my way to go sit down flash to stock and run some logcats so i can see if anything pops up. I'll try to make a video to so you can see what its doing for yourself. I'll record it and upload it to YouTube and link it here.
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Ok. I have to go to work soon though so I might not be able to take a look for a few hours.

well i've snaped off 5 to 7 photo's in a row & can't seem to find this issue that you speak of ?

I'm still heading to the house to try to duplicate it with a logcat running. Will post back soon.
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Nope...
I haven't ever had this problem. I took the back off, tried it, put the TPU case back on without the cover, no problems. I do have a problem with the camera when I try to use another app to take pictures (e.g. Evernote, Facebook). The camera tries to focus, it freezes for about 15 seconds then FC's

[Q] ICS Soft brick. I need an adult. :(

So I'm kind of stuck. I was on the ICS OTA update (stupid move, I know) and I attempted to flash to CM10 (probably an equally stupid move), and the flash proceeded for awhile, but ended up failing. So now I can't access bootstrap, and I'm essentially stuck in a soft brick. In Fastboot flash mode I can't get it to connect via USB, so there's no real hope of FXZing to anything as far as I know.
Do I just call it quits, or is there something I can do? :| I need an adult.

Kay, a little more info is required.
You're on the official OTA? If so, you're stuck mate. There are a couple of semi writing ways to get out of this, you just gotta search and read.
This is why we recommend against the ota update man.
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Fall of Enosis said:
Kay, a little more info is required.
You're on the official OTA? If so, you're stuck mate. There are a couple of semi writing ways to get out of this, you just gotta search and read.
This is why we recommend against the ota update man.
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Yeah, I OTA'ed to the official without thinking, before I checked the forums. Wasn't even thinking about the fact that there might not be an fxz.
I've been reading up and researching for a couple hours, but I still can't find a way to get it to connect via USB in fastboot. :| Have you come across anything that might actually help? Realistically I think it's still under warranty, and we have an AT&T wireless device help center thing here that does same day warranty exchanges, so I think I'm probably just going to go there tomorrow and tell them my phone died during the OTA update and now it won't turn on all the way. Does that sound believable at all? haha They're usually pretty lenient anyway, I got a warranty replacement there on my Atrix 1 and they gave me a bad battery, and when I came back in do get a replacement the guy noticed I was running CM7, and said something jokingly about how "yeah the battery was bad, but the ****ty CM7 port probably didn't help much". lol

Joewee3 said:
Yeah, I OTA'ed to the official without thinking, before I checked the forums. Wasn't even thinking about the fact that there might not be an fxz.
I've been reading up and researching for a couple hours, but I still can't find a way to get it to connect via USB in fastboot. :| Have you come across anything that might actually help? Realistically I think it's still under warranty, and we have an AT&T wireless device help center thing here that does same day warranty exchanges, so I think I'm probably just going to go there tomorrow and tell them my phone died during the OTA update and now it won't turn on all the way. Does that sound believable at all? haha They're usually pretty lenient anyway, I got a warranty replacement there on my Atrix 1 and they gave me a bad battery, and when I came back in do get a replacement the guy noticed I was running CM7, and said something jokingly about how "yeah the battery was bad, but the ****ty CM7 port probably didn't help much". lol
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I don't know why it wouldn't be working in fastboot. try reinstalling drivers if you are on windows.
If you can get an exchange do it, just play dumb, and you'll be fine. I hardbricked when the first ICS hell hit (kind of on purpose, I had a problem that they would not replace for) testing some stuff for how to get back, and I brought it in and just acted sad and said I took it off the charger and it wouldn't turn on. I had a new one in a week.
P.S. I have done much stupider things, so don't worry, you are far from alone.

Thats acually the same thing I said when I flashed the razr developer edition of mbmloader. Just say that the OTA failed and trust me in order to get a new phone
Cheers and good luck!!!

Joewee3 said:
So I'm kind of stuck. I was on the ICS OTA update (stupid move, I know) and I attempted to flash to CM10 (probably an equally stupid move), and the flash proceeded for awhile, but ended up failing. So now I can't access bootstrap, and I'm essentially stuck in a soft brick. In Fastboot flash mode I can't get it to connect via USB, so there's no real hope of FXZing to anything as far as I know.
Do I just call it quits, or is there something I can do? :| I need an adult.
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I stupidly did the same thing as the OP :/. I need to get a replacement and my device is under warranty. How do i proceed? When booting up the device says "Cyanogenmod", so I don't really want to get caught with that! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

007bond said:
I stupidly did the same thing as the OP :/. I need to get a replacement and my device is under warranty. How do i proceed? When booting up the device says "Cyanogenmod", so I don't really want to get caught with that! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Attempt at your own risk:
Take out the phone's battery, and find a couple of lead wires with small alligator clips on both ends. Then, attach the negative black lead wire to a 12v lantern battery (you can find these just about anywhere) and to the negative terminal of the phone. Then attach the positive red lead wire to the battery, and then just touch the end of the positive lead wire to your phone's positive terminal - only takes a second. This will fry the motherboard completely, and it will never turn on. Contact Motorola via their website and open a warranty exchange ticket. They'll send you an email with a shipping label to print, affix to your shipping box, and just drop it off to any FedEx pickup location. I got mine back in less than a week.
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Apex_Strider said:
Attempt at your own risk:
Take out the phone's battery, and find a couple of lead wires with small alligator clips on both ends. Then, attach the negative black lead wire to a 12v lantern battery (you can find these just about anywhere) and to the negative terminal of the phone. Then attach the positive red lead wire to the battery, and then just touch the end of the positive lead wire to your phone's positive terminal - only takes a second. This will fry the motherboard completely, and it will never turn on. Contact Motorola via their website and open a warranty exchange ticket. They'll send you an email with a shipping label to print, affix to your shipping box, and just drop it off to any FedEx pickup location. I got mine back in less than a week.
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Also if you have a car battery charger, set it at a 2AMP charge and connect it the same way ^^, for a min or 2 and it will all be over... it does not matter what phone you have that will do the job just fine. If you send a phone that only needs 2 volts to charge, a 14 volt 2 amp signal, it will be dead. Just make sure the battery is not in the phone when you do this, that will be VERY bad.
I am just saying, and do this very carefully, this can hurt you, if not done correctly.

I wasn't daring enough to follow those steps, so I decided to be creative and use this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935485
Essentially, I did everything but flash the OTA. It didn't fix my issue completely, but it did stop my phone from showing the CyanogenMod logo. I then called AT&T and asked for a replacement I told them that the OTA stopped my phone from booting. They gave me free priority shipping and it arrived this morning (ordered yesterday afternoon).

Phone power downs randomly, then...

So i've recently come back again with an issue i had before with my S2 where i had an issue of it randomly shutting off then vibrate. Back then i just restock to ATT and made sure the power button wasn't stuck. It wasn't happening for a while until just yesterday. [ I did go back to Jellybean after the problem stopped happening as well]
Now currently i've restock back to ATT 2.3 /
So now im almost positive it isn't my battery because once that problem started happening [still stocked] again. Also it would randomly shut off when im and listening to music with headphones and emit a high freq. pitch and the LED camera was flashing when it vibrated as well. Its also very hard to get it back to recovery/download mode but i can and also just starting it up again with the power button and i have to also take out the battery as well .
So so far i've gone back ATT with Odin, and was wondering if someone could help me.

You restored to stock 2.3? Gingerbread? I've only experienced this when uninstalling apps on jellybean, particularly apps with root access. Will do a hot boot. Likely because the system is not mounting or unmounting properly during process. I assume. Never once have I experienced this on any ICS Rom. Try Sky ICS or Embryo 5.x.x Rom. They're both pretty stable.
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aliysared said:
So i've recently come back again with an issue i had before with my S2 where i had an issue of it randomly shutting off then vibrate. Back then i just restock to ATT and made sure the power button wasn't stuck. It wasn't happening for a while until just yesterday. [ I did go back to Jellybean after the problem stopped happening as well]
Now currently i've restock back to ATT 2.3 /
So now im almost positive it isn't my battery because once that problem started happening [still stocked] again. Also it would randomly shut off when im and listening to music with headphones and emit a high freq. pitch and the LED camera was flashing when it vibrated as well. Its also very hard to get it back to recovery/download mode but i can and also just starting it up again with the power button and i have to also take out the battery as well .
So so far i've gone back ATT with Odin, and was wondering if someone could help me.
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Can you get me a copy of the info tag under the battery please? There was a series (which I had 3 of) that had the same hardware issue that you are experiencing. I'm not near my SR of the series, but will look when I get home and post. It is however an issue that AT&T and Samsung are aware of. AT&T gave me a GS III due to the issue.

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Sure:
Model: sgh-i727
fcc id: a3LSGHi727
Rated 3.7 1500ma
IMEI:
S/N : R2CBA64411R
SKU: 65319
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Well that looks like it was from a different batch. Same factory but different batch. Most likely you have the same hardware issue I had. My recommendation is to contact AT&T via PHONE, not the international line. You don't want warranty dept. Tell them that you are on a Sky Rocket, and that this is your "x" one that was under warranty, and that all "x" of them have failed under the same known hardware issue. The options you will have are either get a replacement, file under any extended warranty you purchased, OR you can tell them that it is unacceptable, and you would like a different device. They cannot offer you a note, note 2 or any of the iphones. I opted for the S III, and have been happy ever since.

Just so you know it is not the best idea to post you're IMEI publicly.

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Just so you know it is not the best idea to post you're IMEI publicly.
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man now i cant even remove it from the other users qoute, but i think i found out it is the powerbutton because when i eventual am able to boot up my phone, if i press the powerbutton to wake up it , it then a few seconds later will shut down randomly and start vibrating with either the flash or no flash at all [camera LED] also it seems like my phone was wet and the power button is not stuck because i opened up the entire phone and its still clickable with no problems.

aliysared said:
man now i cant even remove it from the other users qoute, but i think i found out it is the powerbutton because when i eventual am able to boot up my phone, if i press the powerbutton to wake up it , it then a few seconds later will shut down randomly and start vibrating with either the flash or no flash at all [camera LED] also it seems like my phone was wet and the power button is not stuck because i opened up the entire phone and its still clickable with no problems.
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Done did, well get a dental pick (not a tooth pick) and gently clean around the edges of the power button. When you do get it powered back up, make a backup to your sd card, JUST IN CASE you need to send it back to sammy.

I dunno if I'm having something similar happen. My phone was working completely normally (CM 10). Working this AM ok, I pull up an email, and then it shuts off, tries rebooting, the Samsung logo comes up, I get a brief flash on the screen (sometimes just a single line that varies in position on the screen) and then it keeps vibrating. Never had this happen before....and of course it happens as I am at the airport without my laptop to try and put it into download mode...I can't even get it into recovery. Ugh!
Any thoughts?

jslanger said:
I dunno if I'm having something similar happen. My phone was working completely normally (CM 10). Working this AM ok, I pull up an email, and then it shuts off, tries rebooting, the Samsung logo comes up, I get a brief flash on the screen (sometimes just a single line that varies in position on the screen) and then it keeps vibrating. Never had this happen before....and of course it happens as I am at the airport without my laptop to try and put it into download mode...I can't even get it into recovery. Ugh!
Any thoughts?
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sticky power button, 1stop sticky has a few links for that problem

Or take the phone apart and clean it. Its not hard like 6 00 screws and a box cutter then its really easy to clean.
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Thx. I did take it apart. Luckily I had a micro screwdriver for glasses with me, since I am out of town. Took the board off, blew into it, pressed the button a bunch, etc. Seems to be working now.
Sounds like this is not an uncommon problem though. Makes me wonder about the quality of the parts... This phone is just over a year old, and has always had a case on it (though I do keep it in a pocket so there could be some lint working its way in).
I am a novice at taking this phone apart, and I managed to do it with the following:
An old laminated Blockbuster video card
A hotel door key
A glasses flathead screwdriver.
So if you are nervous about taking it apart, don't worry... It's not hard.
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Black screen on a rooted phone. question

I have been running MOAR rom for a few days. this morning i tried to open it and the screen was black. it is working underneith it . i can answer phonecalls, i started s-voice with 2 taps on the home button and it fired up. the only thing is the screen is black.
I talked to verizon and they are sending me a replacement. my question is do i have to odin it back to stock to return it? any input would be great. also how would i get into odin mode? what is the easiest way from the command prompt?
this sucks

+!
I just had the same thing happen overnight. The power comes on and the screen is responsive to touch, it's just completely blank. I can't figure out how to get download mode to start so I can run Odin back to stick.

Normally yes, you should do this. Are you both sure it's not just the rom itself? I know AOSP roms are having some instability issues related to the Linux 3.4 kernel. Does your display turn on after a reboot or removing the battery several times? It's highly unusual this exact same thing issue would happen to two people unless it was a kernel glitch or too much undervolting.
(From a powered off state) Download mode: power button, home and volume down. Idk if you weren't sure how to boot into download mode or if it's just not working.
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Running MROM build:20130423.
I get nothing on the screen at all. I pulled the battery (couldn't see where to touch the screen for shutdown to work), and I've tried both ways so far. I tried just powering it on again, and it seems to power up just fine .. with nothing visible. It vibrates when I tap the screen, the leds are on, etc. Just a completely black screen.
I tried to get into Download mode as well. Pulled the battery (BTW, the battery had a full overnight charge. When the phone is plugged in, the LED is green) and did the Vol-down, Home, Power combo; but I can never see anything on the screen to know when the triangle appears. I've tried guessing several times by pressing the Vol-up button at various intervals after doing the download mode start combo. It vibrates to tell me the power has started, but nothing visual at all.
Still absolutely nothing on the display.
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So the real question is, if I'm reading the OP correctly, is how do we get the phone back to stock without any sort of visual assistance on the phone itself?
kidhudi, correct me if you are looking for something different. If so, I'll start my own thread.

How long are you holding that button combo for download mode? Also, try holding home and volume down then pressing the power button. And what about booting into recovery? Any luck there?
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OK . the screen started working , kinda. the whole right side is solid purple. i was able to boot into odin mode and odined back to stock.
rebooted and the screen is still jacked up but at least it is readable. my replacement will be here monday.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
How long are you holding that button combo for download mode? Also, try holding home and volume down then pressing the power button. And what about booting into recovery? Any luck there?
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I've tried holding down the key combo for just a second or two (before the initial power-up buzz), just after the initial power-up buzz, and several seconds after the initial power buzz, even to the point of it buzzing a second time. I've tried it a bunch of different ways. No luck. It still feels like it's powering on, I just can't see anything.
I've also tried to get into recovery several times, still with no display.
I've got a feeling I'm screwed. If that's the case, what's the likelihood of still being able to do a warranty replacement? Will VZW techs be able to get in and see that I've customized the phone (unlocked bootloader, custom ROM, etc.)?

dude volume down power and home.. after press volume up then you should be in odin mode

kidhudi said:
OK . the screen started working , kinda. the whole right side is solid purple. i was able to boot into odin mode and odined back to stock.
rebooted and the screen is still jacked up but at least it is readable. my replacement will be here monday.
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Great news! I hope to get to that point soon.
Is the rest of your screen looking really grainy? Mine did that last night before I let it just sit overnight. The graininess was to the point where I could barely make out a few things on the screen, but nothing else.
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kidhudi said:
dude volume down power and home.. after press volume up then you should be in odin mode
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Yeah, I've done that hundreds of times with other phones (Yes, I'm a flashoholic), and a bunch of times with the GS3. I'll try it again and see if it shows up in Odin on my PC. I still can't see anything on the phone, regardless of what mode I try to boot to.

tsgeek said:
I've tried holding down the key combo for just a second or two (before the initial power-up buzz), just after the initial power-up buzz, and several seconds after the initial power buzz, even to the point of it buzzing a second time. I've tried it a bunch of different ways. No luck. It still feels like it's powering on, I just can't see anything.
I've also tried to get into recovery several times, still with no display.
I've got a feeling I'm screwed. If that's the case, what's the likelihood of still being able to do a warranty replacement? Will VZW techs be able to get in and see that I've customized the phone (unlocked bootloader, custom ROM, etc.)?
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Hold it for about twenty to thirty seconds. It's finicky and sometimes even takes a few attempts. You very well might be screwed, like I said something like this ordinarily shouldn't happen on the same rom unless it was user caused with voltages. Has anyone else mentioned similar issues on that rom thread?
If Verizon could recover it, sure it's always possible especially since we aren't exactly sure what happened in the first place. Personally, I'm of the mindset that Verizon thinks something is up with returned devices having the same issues lol Will they care? I doubt it.
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yes what you see is what i see. the whole bottom right is still BLACK.. the right is purple. and the rest is a purple haze. i just kept pulling the battery and restarting.. also i pulled the battery for like an hour to let things that hold voltage simmer down. good luck bro we are all with you.

Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!

tsgeek said:
Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!
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Wow. That's absolutely sucks. Maybe you can sell your GSIII for parts and buy a used GS4 in two months?
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Wow. That's absolutely sucks. Maybe you can sell your GSIII for parts and buy a used GS4 in two months?
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Thanks. That's my thought. Of course, I'd have the buy the GS4 retail, since I don't want to lose my unlimited data.
I may just find a replacement on eBay. Maybe a Rezound? Can't spend too much.

tsgeek said:
Thanks. That's my thought. Of course, I'd have the buy the GS4 retail, since I don't want to lose my unlimited data.
I may just find a replacement on eBay. Maybe a Rezound? Can't spend too much.
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Should be a good replacement, either that or see how low the RAZR M or GNex are running for.
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tsgeek said:
Well, I got nothing. VZW says that, since there is a crack on the screen (from 8 months ago), they cannot do a warranty replacement.
At least I had an old Blackberry 8830 to transfer the account, so I can keep my unlimited data plan. I hope the thing still powers up!
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sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.

kidhudi said:
sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.
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The "best" they could do for me was $419 for a refurb. No thanks.
Thanks for the moral support guys!

kidhudi said:
sorry to hear bro they told me if there is damage it would cost me 299 bucks. i do have a little chip in the bezzel around the size of a small ant and the same shape too. i am debating on trying to paint it with nail polish or something but it is probably not the best idea. . i am going to see if they make a stink. if so i will mail the replacement back and close my VZ account for good.
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edit I would try it on both of yalls phones.
It might not work but I would tighten all the screws under the back cover just to see if there is a loose contact or ground. It doesn't cost and only takes a few as seconds.
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bbolton_98 said:
edit I would try it on both of yalls phones.
It might not work but I would tighten all the screws under the back cover just to see if there is a loose contact or ground. It doesn't cost and only takes a few as seconds.
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Thanks for the tip. didn't help though still in the same boat. It probably is a loose connection internally. the screen get worse the longer it has the battery in it.
PS.. i should know this but if I odin back to stock do i still have to worry about the trip (flash) counter?

Same Problem
Last night the screen stopped coming on but all of the lights still work. Does anyone have an idea of how to unroot the phone without the screen coming on? (I have tried putting it in Odin mode)