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after i attemped to upgrade my jf 1.41 rc 30 to jf 1.41 rc 33 my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on is there any way or any buttons i need to push to get this back on again? i'm desperate and dont want to wait for a g1 replacement which is coming next week please give me some advice on how to make my phone work again.
both CAMERA/POWER and HOME/POWER are not working?
yup both i tried nothing works
ariex said:
my phone freeze and then i took out the battery, try to turn it on and it wont turn back on.
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Did you put the battery back in?
what do you think?
I upgraded from JF 1.41 RC30 with no problem, Radio and all, good luck!
ariex said:
what do you think?
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So far you are the only person with this problem so we are running through the basics.
Did you get any errors or messages during the update? Did the phone run out of battery mid update? Did anything odd or unusual happen?
quick question in while in the topic, had he done a FULL nandroid backup and was able to atleast get to boot screen would he be able to restore his phone? just a quick questions because to this day i have no idea how the nandroid thing works i cant do it on my x64 vista either and dont see how it comes in handy lol. Sorry just trying to fig it out.
after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery
@zgjbeta Yes. If you can get to the blinkin android screen, your not really bricked. Nandroid would fix it right up.
If it wont even turn on, like your case. I dono what to tell you.
For starters, try to connect it to a wall outlet to make sure its not the battery.
Also tell us exactly what happened during the update process.
EDIT: I read your most recent post. That's strange because everyone gets the chip thing, you shouldve tried home + back or menu + green + red.
One of those wouldve most likely worked.
Good luck.
Also maybe try to take it out again and put it back in.
I had the chip and arrow after the radio update, I didn't take the battery out, started pressing random keys, lol... and then it went away and booted back to a JF recovery style screen. Pressed home + back and it rebooted to a stuck flashing android. Then did call+menu+end to reboot and it has worked fine ever since.
There is definitely something whacky going on...
yes i tried to do the home key plus end and camera plus end options while in that chip state but didnt do anything so i resolve to take out the battery and it wont turn on again. i also tried all the button reset combo nothing happens
If it wont even turn then there is really nothing that can be done. Another thing I would try is if you know someone else with a G1 try their battery.
ariex said:
after i tried to install the radio update it showed some sort of chip with an arrow and then it froze for over 10 mins so i ended up taking out the battery
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Also try cleaning the battery contacts in the phone and on the battery. This happened to one of my dumbphones once - cleaned out the battery contacts and it worked again. Bizzare situation, simple solutions first.
You might've turned it off while it was writing a vital file. Thus your phone might be bricked.
Here's an idea - sent it back to T-Mobile/HTC - and I don't think they will notice you violated your warranty until it's too late (they have to fix your phone to find out) so you could just refuse to pay and have them send it back to you.
I too saw the chip with the arrow thing, so that makes 3 people in this thread. It happened when I did the radio update. Anyway, in my case, I held down the recovery mode keys for a while and it went to the menu. Then I just rebooted and everything was great. Glad I didn't take out the battery (I considered it).
I had the chip and just waited and it took care of itself. Just be patient people.
plug in the wall charger, wait 10 seconds, then hold the red power button for 3-5 seconds then release, it should turn on
i tried that didnt work anymore advice?
also is there any way to run diagnostics of this phone to pc to make it work?
If the phone won't turn on, go back to the T-Mobile store and ***** em out. Not much else to say if we can't even get power to it.
Alright so I got the tablet yesterday and I've been hacking it ever since.
Here's what happened:
Booted into NvFlash mode, flashed a custom recovery, everything went fine. However, when I tried to turn the tablet off after the flash, it refused to do so.
Now it's just stuck on the "Entering NvFlash recovery mode / Nv3p Server" screen and I can't for the life of me get the damn thing to turn off.
My PC still recognizes it over usb, but when I try to do anything with nvflash, it hangs on "Nvflash started".
Any ideas apart from letting the battery drain and trying again? This is barely using any power so it's gonna take a looooooong time for that to happen.
Never had this issue, but yes you might have to let the battery drain if its stuck in APX mode and cannot get out. It will take about 24 hours - I know this because I had to do this once.
Is it possible that the power button is stuck?
roebeet said:
Never had this issue, but yes you might have to let the battery drain if its stuck in APX mode and cannot get out. It will take about 24 hours - I know this because I had to do this once.
Is it possible that the power button is stuck?
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Nope, I've pressed it a million times already.
If it's not off by the morning I'm taking it back to Office Depot and saying that I tried to install the update for the stock OS and this happened. Just hope nobody there knows anything about custom ROMs.
There is a reset button inside that may help. Because some genius designed this thing the back cover has to come off to get to it though. Only 4 screws, and a couple clips around the cover.
True, but for most people letting the battery drain might be a better solution. It is a bit difficult to get the back off as there are clamps inside the device, kinda like an iPod. And of course you will void your warranty. I actually destroyed a few iPod prying tools getting my back case off.
Someone here actually drilled a hole in the back of their device to get to the reset hole. That's actually not a bad idea, if you don't have any plans on ever returning the device.
Everytime my device hangs I hold down the power button for 10 seconds and it turns off. Did you try that?
roebeet said:
I actually destroyed a few iPod prying tools getting my back case off.
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Haha! I think those things self destruct as soon as they come from the package. I like the thick guitar picks better when I am trying to break... I mean fix... stuff
Anyone have an update? Mine is stuck also. if I rerun nvflash on pc it boots it back up but everytime i turn it off it goes back to apx mode/black screen.
I had this problem, but I had downloaded the wrong version of the NVflash. Try the other one in the Dropbox and reflash.
As for the stuck in the APX mode, I was there too, but I just held the Power button until turned off, re-entered in APX mode, and reflashed.
Okay, so i had Infused 2.3.0 (i think that was the number, it's the latest one anyway). I followed the instructions to the T. I had no issues.
About 3 or 4 days later i woke up and my phone had 1% battery. I sent a text, and then locked the phone. I came back to plug it in, and tried to see if it had any battery. None, it was dead. No biggie. I plug it in, and i get the circle loading thing. Then the battery symbol appears (charging). Then the phone goes black and the circle loading thing appears again. Then it keeps restarting. and going back to the circle loading thing. Over... and Over... Then i tried charging it for a while to see if the battery was just really low. No dice.
I put my girlfriends battery from her infuse 4g and it had 90%. Did the same thing. Circle loading thing, restart, circle loading thing, etc. Then i tried to put it into recovery. No dice, it would just keep restarting. Sometimes the Samsung logo would appear, and then it would just restart samsung, black screen, samsung, black screen, then eventually back to the circle.
I got it in red recovery ONCE, i was able to scroll down twice, and then the phone restarted. I couldn't get it back into red recovery.
I thought i had bricked my phone somehow. So i tried to use GTGs unbrick. I loaded it up fine (i'd done it with my girlfriends phone before to restore it to stock). It took me about 15 tries to get it into download mode. It was in download mode for long enough so that the program recognized it, and it started the download to restore it, then the phone turned off.
Now the phone won't even turn on. I can't put it in download mode, i can't put it into recovery, i can't get it to do ANYTHING.
What the hell did i do? What caused the original issue?
HELP
Does your phone still have warranty?
What the hell didn't you do.
Ok well first of all it is not Infused 2.3 it is 2.2.3. Anyway that is not the point, did you have juice defender installed? I do not think it could have done anything, but maybe. What is the latest app/tweak/anything you installed? Finally, have you tried holding both volume buttons and power button when trying to turn it on? This problem you are having seems extremely odd. Try plugging it in.
eatjello said:
Okay, so i had Infused 2.3.0 (i think that was the number, it's the latest one anyway). I followed the instructions to the T. I had no issues.
About 3 or 4 days later i woke up and my phone had 1% battery. I sent a text, and then locked the phone. I came back to plug it in, and tried to see if it had any battery. None, it was dead. No biggie. I plug it in, and i get the circle loading thing. Then the battery symbol appears (charging). Then the phone goes black and the circle loading thing appears again. Then it keeps restarting. and going back to the circle loading thing. Over... and Over... Then i tried charging it for a while to see if the battery was just really low. No dice.
I put my girlfriends battery from her infuse 4g and it had 90%. Did the same thing. Circle loading thing, restart, circle loading thing, etc. Then i tried to put it into recovery. No dice, it would just keep restarting. Sometimes the Samsung logo would appear, and then it would just restart samsung, black screen, samsung, black screen, then eventually back to the circle.
I got it in red recovery ONCE, i was able to scroll down twice, and then the phone restarted. I couldn't get it back into red recovery.
I thought i had bricked my phone somehow. So i tried to use GTGs unbrick. I loaded it up fine (i'd done it with my girlfriends phone before to restore it to stock). It took me about 15 tries to get it into download mode. It was in download mode for long enough so that the program recognized it, and it started the download to restore it, then the phone turned off.
Now the phone won't even turn on. I can't put it in download mode, i can't put it into recovery, i can't get it to do ANYTHING.
What the hell did i do? What caused the original issue?
HELP
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Did you try your girlfriend's charged battery with the charger disconnected?
Sarius24 said:
Does your phone still have warranty?
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Yeah I'm going to try to take it to the ATT store tomorrow to see what they say.
Eddie Bombay said:
What the hell didn't you do.
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Thank you for the valuable contribution.
Ryanscool said:
Ok well first of all it is not Infused 2.3 it is 2.2.3. Anyway that is not the point, did you have juice defender installed? I do not think it could have done anything, but maybe. What is the latest app/tweak/anything you installed? Finally, have you tried holding both volume buttons and power button when trying to turn it on? This problem you are having seems extremely odd. Try plugging it in.
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2.2.3, thanks. I was too lazy to look it up. No, I didn't have juice defender. I used Lookout, that's all.
The latest thing I installed was the 2.2.3 update for Infused. I updated Pandora, and that's all.
Yes, i've done that with the volume buttons.
Entropy512 said:
Did you try your girlfriend's charged battery with the charger disconnected?
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Yes. Won't turn on.
Well, best thing you can do now is see what ATT can do about it. The worst that can happen is they say they can not do anything, which you then can keep trying the ultimate unbrick over again. This helped someone on an earlier thread.
Same thing happened to me. Take the battery out. Make sure USB cable is unplugged. Hold down both up and down volume buttons plug in USB into ur phone and PC and put battery back in. This will put you in download mode and it will stick do u can return to stock. Good luck
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jmatt78 said:
Same thing happened to me. Take the battery out. Make sure USB cable is unplugged. Hold down both up and down volume buttons plug in USB into ur phone and PC and put battery back in. This will put you in download mode and it will stick do u can return to stock. Good luck
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA App
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I'll try this again, but it didn't work last time. No matter what i did.
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Tried again multiple times. It just won't turn on.
I think you have a hardware failure of some sort... Take it back to AT&T for warrany service.
You probably didn't do anything to it - just bad luck and coincidence.
Entropy512 said:
I think you have a hardware failure of some sort... Take it back to AT&T for warrany service.
You probably didn't do anything to it - just bad luck and coincidence.
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this is exactly what i thought. and what i'm hoping. I'll let you guys know what happens tomorrow at ATT.
let me know what ATT says and how your approach was to them.
I just got my phonw into a boot loop ...
Was thinking if nothing works just play dumb with ATT.
Evanescense said:
let me know what ATT says and how your approach was to them.
I just got my phonw into a boot loop ...
Was thinking if nothing works just play dumb with ATT.
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I'm at att right now waiting. Ill let you know what I say and what happens.
What rom were you using?
They're replacing it. No questions asked. The phone wont turn on. So they said its a hardware failure
The guy was really nice. Didn't ask me if I did anything to it
He tried everything I did. Download mode. New battery. Nadda
got my replacement today. all is well. now to root
So, i decided to finally root my Note 5 after figuring out how to do everything without a power button. Well, last night after rooting and flashing TWRP. I reset my phone not knowing about their new authentication thing. Basically, I can't get my phone to boot normally. It says on the Samsung screen with the red lets, but if I plug it in, it turns the screen on, shoes the red let,, shuts off, then repeats/
My problem is, I have no way of getting into download mode. ADB doesnt recognize the phone as it shuts off and off if plugged in, the function to put it in download stopped working for no apparent reason. I would get to the "Warning" messages before downloading through Odin, yet it wouldn't let me use the download or restart option.
So, Now I am stuck with it not working and had to go back to a Galaxy S3 (It's...so...smalll....) Doesn't anyone know of any possible way to get it into download mode or to bypass the authentication? Any help would be awesome, don't want an expensive phone to just die out on me before it's even a year old.
Ok, first and foremost congratulations on the rooting process, glad you could do it without a power button. However it is with sad news that there is nothing you can do without that power button. You're basically at a point of no return from what I can see unless you can get the power button repaired. Essentially you have a paper weight. Unless someone else has any ideas on what to try, I've got nothing.
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Critical Detox said:
Ok, first and foremost congratulations on the rooting process, glad you could do it without a power button. However it is with sad news that there is nothing you can do without that power button. You're basically at a point of no return from what I can see unless you can get the power button repaired. Essentially you have a paper weight. Unless someone else has any ideas on what to try, I've got nothing.
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Yup he needs to get the power button fixed at this point or he has a nice paperweight.
My only question is why not have fixed it in the first place once you knew it was not working?
Makes no sense really to leave it broken when you know you will likely need it.
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zxandrewxz said:
So, i decided to finally root my Note 5 after figuring out how to do everything without a power button. Well, last night after rooting and flashing TWRP. I reset my phone not knowing about their new authentication thing. Basically, I can't get my phone to boot normally. It says on the Samsung screen with the red lets, but if I plug it in, it turns the screen on, shoes the red let,, shuts off, then repeats/
My problem is, I have no way of getting into download mode. ADB doesnt recognize the phone as it shuts off and off if plugged in, the function to put it in download stopped working for no apparent reason. I would get to the "Warning" messages before downloading through Odin, yet it wouldn't let me use the download or restart option.
So, Now I am stuck with it not working and had to go back to a Galaxy S3 (It's...so...smalll....) Doesn't anyone know of any possible way to get it into download mode or to bypass the authentication? Any help would be awesome, don't want an expensive phone to just die out on me before it's even a year old.
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Most likely this idea will not work either but have you tried to plug the phone into the
fast charger for 3-4 hours without touching it or trying anything, then plugging it into
the usb of your computer and see if ADB recognizes it?
Good luck!!!
Before you say "turn it off by holding the power button" I tried, like 6 or 7 times, maybe more. One of the times, I even had it resting on the power button, pushed down by a weight for over 20 minutes. I am thinking of just letting the battery die out, but I was wondering if there was anything else to do. Especially given it's at 50%-ish, and I don't want an image burned on the screen.
Power button alone won't be enough for a total lock up. A hard reset should do it, edit: it's power + vol down for 7+ seconds.
If it freezes again when I turn it back on, then I will try that. It died though, so hopefully that should help. Thank you though.
blazeblades said:
If it freezes again when I turn it back on, then I will try that. It died though, so hopefully that should help. Thank you though.
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Can you get into recovery?
wipe cache? did it help?, if not
If you can backup, factory reset? did it help? , if not
can you get into download mode , if so
Flash stock rom again