I went kayaking yesterday and got some water on the phone. The zip lock bag I had it in opened up somehow. I turned the phone off and it wouldnt turn back on. It vibrated 3 times and then kept blinking a orange LED. I left it in the sun for about an hr and then it worked again. Today I am having the same issue. I rebooted my phone because the touch screen wasn't being responsive and it won't boot up. 3 vibrates and then orange led keep blinking. I tried booting into recovery and no luck. Any tips?
vandeec5 said:
I went kayaking yesterday and got some water on the phone. The zip lock bag I had it in opened up somehow. I turned the phone off and it wouldnt turn back on. It vibrated 3 times and then kept blinking a orange LED. I left it in the sun for about an hr and then it worked again. Today I am having the same issue. I rebooted my phone because the touch screen wasn't being responsive and it won't boot up. 3 vibrates and then orange led keep blinking. I tried booting into recovery and no luck. Any tips?
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try to leave it in a bag of rice overnight? is your battery alright? not shorted or anything? other than that i got nothing. sorry
nhshah7 said:
try to leave it in a bag of rice overnight? is your battery alright? not shorted or anything? other than that i got nothing. sorry
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Do i need to keep all the covers on and leave it in a bag of rice? do I keep keep the battery in? The battery is fine. I just rebooted the phone and was able to get into recovery but I noticed the Volume up key was not functional. I rebooted again and it did the same 3 vibrate and orange led
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Do i need to keep all the covers on and leave it in a bag of rice? do I keep keep the battery in? The battery is fine. I just rebooted the phone and was able to get into recovery but I noticed the Volume up key was not functional. I rebooted again and it did the same 3 vibrate and orange led
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Open everything up and take it all apart. Rice absorbs moisture so you want it to be able to absorb from inside as well. Make sure it's in a ziplock so it absorbs from inside the bag and not outside
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I got the phone up and running, the volume up key does not work. Now I gotta return things back to stock and get a replacement.
Ok here is my situation.
1. Everytime I restart my phone, the phone vibrates 3x with flashing orange. I have to wait like an hour or so then I can turn on my phone and it will boot normally.
2. The Volume up key does not work
3. This is a work phone, I need to get back to stock
4. I can boot into bootloader and recovery
My question is, how do I go back completely to stock through the bootloader?, so that I can send my phone back to ATT for warranty. Having to wait an hr before I my phone will load is a pain...Can I put an image on the SD card and flash it through bootloader to go back to stock?
Before you go through all that trouble, verify that the water indicator isn't red/pink. It's located under teh sim/micro SD cover, look for the FC and Bluetooth symbols then look through the opaque plastic for a white rectangle.
I have personally had my first inspire go down due to water damage. My inspire did the same thing of vibrating 3x and flashing the led. I'm pretty sure that this also indicates water damage. They have ways of identifying water damage, so its just best to be honest about that, because when they find out that it is water damage, they will be charging you full price of the phone because water damage is not covered by warranty....should have bought insurance. My advice to you is, see if you can buy insurance. And then wait a week or two, and then file a claim. You will have to pay the deductible though. When I filed, the deductible was $125, but I've heard that they are bumping it up. Best of luck.
To get back to stock, go here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033353
Scroll down to MISCELLANEOUS: > Returning to Stock:
I checked the back and it's not red so I am in good shape.
This phone was issued from my work so I get it for free, I just want to return it to stock so that my company won't know that I rooted my phone.
I just tried to downgrade and I was unable to, the RUU will try to boot into bootloader but my phone wont boot into it, I have to give it maybe 5 minutes before it will boot into boot loader. It will just keep vibrating. Is there a stock Rom that I can flash through recovery and somehow remove the superuser icon?
As far as I know, the only way to install true unrooted stock roms are either by the RUU or by flashing a zip file in the bootloader. Either way, you will have to get into bootloader. Anything else will be custom roms. You can install a custom stock rom and try uninstalling superuser, but it will reflect custom software in software information. Going about it this way, may apear to be unrooted/purely stock initially, but anyone with general android knowledge will be able to tell that its been fooled with. Especially if they try to perform an OTA software update from AT&T and it won't work because it's been rooted. And then, of course, you can't forget about your phone being s-off.
I went into recovery and restored a backup I did right before I installed a custom rom which I remember I always do in case stuff like this happens. I then installed root explorer and removed super user and rom manager then removed root explorer itself. I went and try to do an OTA update and it did allow me to but I didn't do it. Right now S is off but my phone is looking as stock as it can be for now. At least I tried...
Your water indicator is on the side of the battery, pink indicates water damage which can only be replaced through insurance. What I did when I took a spill into a pond while fishing with my phone in my pocket was remove the battery, both covers, sim card & memory card. Took the phone & submerged it in a bowl of rice overnight. Put the battery, sim card & memory card in it's own bowl of rice over night. Next day I was able to use the hack kit to get s-on then plugged it into the pc & run the stock ruu before I sent it back to the insurance company. If you send it & they discover that it's still s-off they will charge you full price for the phone.
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stryfe2010 said:
Your water indicator is on the side of the battery, pink indicates water damage which can only be replaced through insurance. What I did when I took a spill into a pond while fishing with my phone in my pocket was remove the battery, both covers, sim card & memory card. Took the phone & submerged it in a bowl of rice overnight. Put the battery, sim card & memory card in it's own bowl of rice over night. Next day I was able to use the hack kit to get s-on then plugged it into the pc & run the stock ruu before I sent it back to the insurance company. If you send it & they discover that it's still s-off they will charge you full price for the phone.
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Yea i'm pretty much screwed because I can't run the RUU or the hack kit, if it's anything dealing with the phone having to reboot, I can't do it. If i restart my phone, I have to take the battery out for about 30 minutes before It will boot again. If I can get S-On somehow either through boot loader or anything that doesn't require reboot then I will be fine....
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Hello All!
Three days ago I updated my GS3 to JB 4.1.1. I also ODIN'd TWRP onto my phone as a recovery and loaded SuperSU with an unlocked bootloader onto my phone along with BusyBox. I fell in love with my phone again as JB ran smoothly and I was even able to use Wallet Installer to get Google Wallet onto my phone. However, tonight, my phone seemed to experience a case of Sudden Death Syndrome. A common issue found by googling why my phone's failure to respond to boot commands and power commands.
It will not respond to attempts to boot into ODIN mode, my TWRP recovery and the only sign of life on my phone is a solid red LCD that lights up only if I remove the battery and leave the device plugged into a wall charger. Once I try to reinsert the battery, however, the LCD goes away and the phone once again turns into a coffee coaster. It's taking a lot of strength not to throw it against the wall. (I picked the worst week to quit smoking.)
I don't believe I hardbricked the device because three hours ago at the time of this post, I went to sleep and the phone was working and I was able to send and receive messages. I believe that rooting my phone actually made it even more stable than normal. I just can't believe my phone could just suddenly die. Could it be another case of Sudden Death Syndrome? (Corrupted NAND?) I bought this phone in August and many cases of SDS for the GSIII seem to occur within 150-200 days of activation, which would put me in that window. If I answered my own questions, please feel free to tell me. I'm just trying to explore all options as an exasperated user dealing with what seems frustration after frustration and the one release I have from that stress just **** a brick.
I am covered by Asurion Insurance (and if the crack on my screen will not be enough I plan on running it over with my car for good measure to get my money's worth) but I really do not want to have to file an insurance claim unless it is absolutely necessary.
Phone died just last night 12/29/12. The battery was running down, then beeped once like a warning to charge it. Plugged into the charger and no light whatsoever! The battery icon would come on for a second and then nothing. Left it on the charger over night. Nothing. No red charging light, no boot. Pulled the battery and re-plugged into charger. Same charging icon on screen but nothing else. Tried every combination of removing battery, sim card, memory card, and plugging it in to the charger and still won't boot. Tried a different charger and also my laptop. Nothing. The S3 is a USA Verizon variant. 16gb. Black. I guess it's off to Verizon this morning to get a new phone. Phone is only 45 days old!!!
You could try leaving it on the charger for a couple hours then booting into recovery and reflashing your rom. I've seen a couple instances reported on xda where the battery simply just gave up below 23% and refused to turn back on.
Edit: example, not even a couple weeks old...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2056539
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If it is a case of "sds" Samsung will replace the board for free.
Ryno77 said:
If it is a case of "sds" Samsung will replace the board for free.
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Only reports of SDS in the 150-200 day time frame that I saw was with the International Version and it is completely different motherboard.
What do you kids do to your phone? How old are you? I'm going to start a survey. Age please?
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Update: Brought the S3 into Verizon. They pulled the battery (Like I did a few times!) and somehow got it working again!! FM ! Phone reboots and turns off and then back on. BUT..... if you turn it completely OFF and plug it in to charge then the same as I mentioned happens again. STRANGE. The only way to get it to reboot is to pull the battery and keep it out for about 30 seconds. Put the battery back in and it'll reboot again!!!! Is it me or is this a strange quirk???? The previous times I pulled the battery it was out then back in. This time I took it out, waited 30 seconds and VOILA! It works. Thought you might like an update. Verizon S3 bought on 11/17/12. Rooted and not oc/uc'd. Using Clean Rom 5.5.1
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Only reports of SDS in the 150-200 day time frame that I saw was with the International Version and it is completely different motherboard.
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That's good news..thanks for the correction.
Hi I need help with trying to repair my sensation z710e.
I had to replace the digitizer today. I followed a couple of guides i found online. I was very careful and gentle throughout the procedure. Unfortunately I did break a cable which lights up the bottom row of buttons. It was glued solidly to the digitizer but even as i scraped at it as gently as I could it snapped. Okay , not the end of the world. I was warned about it in the guide but it was just glued to solidly.
Anyway put everything back together and got a boot loop when i turned on. I rebotted into the bootloader to see what would happen, that worked fine but when I selected recovery the thing just froze and rebooted and continued to boot loop.
I then tried to re-flash the radio file PG58IMG.img but wasn't allowed to as the phone reported that the batter was too low.
So i plugged it in and left it there for an hour or two switched off.
But the current situation now is that the phone won't turn on at all. When the charger is plugged in the orange LED is on but flashes to Off for a second every 10 seconds. Does anyone know if this is a code for something.
It looks to me that the battery died and didn't charge at all when I plugged it in earlier. Could that be due to bricked firmware? I have no way of telling if the battery is actually dead as I don't have the equipment to test. I have a feeling I can save this phone somehow. Any ideas anyone? Thanks.
ezzony said:
Hi I need help with trying to repair my sensation z710e.
I had to replace the digitizer today. I followed a couple of guides i found online. I was very careful and gentle throughout the procedure. Unfortunately I did break a cable which lights up the bottom row of buttons. It was glued solidly to the digitizer but even as i scraped at it as gently as I could it snapped. Okay , not the end of the world. I was warned about it in the guide but it was just glued to solidly.
Anyway put everything back together and got a boot loop when i turned on. I rebotted into the bootloader to see what would happen, that worked fine but when I selected recovery the thing just froze and rebooted and continued to boot loop.
I then tried to re-flash the radio file PG58IMG.img but wasn't allowed to as the phone reported that the batter was too low.
So i plugged it in and left it there for an hour or two switched off.
But the current situation now is that the phone won't turn on at all. When the charger is plugged in the orange LED is on but flashes to Off for a second every 10 seconds. Does anyone know if this is a code for something.
It looks to me that the battery died and didn't charge at all when I plugged it in earlier. Could that be due to bricked firmware? I have no way of telling if the battery is actually dead as I don't have the equipment to test. I have a feeling I can save this phone somehow. Any ideas anyone? Thanks.
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The orange blinks mean that your battery is drained to the fullest. So you need to recharge it. Plug the phone in a 'wall charger' not computer or ps3 whatever just straight from the wall charger keep im mind it could take an hour to recover but when it happened to me it took 30 mins to get enough juice to power on
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Alternative if the charging doesnt work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1198585
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Hi all,
I went to take my break at work, phone in hand, working, put it in my pocket. Signed out, proceeded to the elevators to go downstairs, take it back out and no response. Okay. Fine. Hold power...nothing. Pop the battery out for 30ish seconds, back in, case on...power...still nothing. Get to my car thinking maybe it died even though it had 50% left to the battery. Plug it into my car mount and the LED doesn't light up. I work minutes away from a Verizon store so I decide to stop by. I explain to the rep what was going on, he plugs it in and nothing. He tries a different battery and nothing. We both tried vol up + power + home and nothing.
I have not rooted my phone, and the only thing I did recently was factory reset it over the weekend just to give it a "fresh start."
After I got home not too long ago, plugged the phone in using the cable I usually take with me (just happened to leave it home today of course) and no response from the phone. However, if I remove the back cover and take the battery out the LED light DOES come on if I plug the phone in again for several minutes and then it goes out.
From what I've read here and elsewhere there was something about a bad EMMC chip that caused phones to just suddenly die, could this possibly be it?
Thanks.
Sounds like a hard brick to me. Try this
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM&desktop_uri=/watch%=dU5H8NJ7vTM
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If ur not rooted wat so ever then jst get a warranty replacement
If you don't have the ability to software flash it or if you honestly think its a hardware issue you could try getting a warranty replacement through your carrier as suggested or if you'd like to keep your phone and not get a refurb and are willing to wait a couple weeks, you could always send it to Samsung for warranty repair.
Feel free to pm me if you wanna troubleshoot
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I was pushed into a pool with my Nexus 5 on me. I took my phone out of my pocket right away but it was submerged in water of course. I was not able to put it in rice or silica until the next day. I took apart the phone, removed the battery, cleaned lightly with 99% alcohol and put the phone in silica gel packs for 4 days. I am able to turn on the phone and boot into Android KitKat, but it shuts down immediately.
I am able to boot into recovery and flash and it stays on indefinitely. I tried wiping the phone, do a restore from backup, etc. While all the tasks of the recovery work, the phone will boot up and immediately shut down. I don't understand why the phone will work in recovery and is able to perform heavy tasks like backup and restore, but will not stay powered on in Android.
Is it possible my battery is at fault here? I noticed that even though I have it plugged into the charger, it doesn't seem to be replenishing. Or at least the is what the indicator tells me.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
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I was pushed into a pool with my Nexus 5 on me. I took my phone out of my pocket right away but it was submerged in water of course. I was not able to put it in rice or silica until the next day. I took apart the phone, removed the battery, cleaned lightly with 99% alcohol and put the phone in silica gel packs for 4 days. I am able to turn on the phone and boot into Android KitKat, but it shuts down immediately.
I am able to boot into recovery and flash and it stays on indefinitely. I tried wiping the phone, do a restore from backup, etc. While all the tasks of the recovery work, the phone will boot up and immediately shut down. I don't understand why the phone will work in recovery and is able to perform heavy tasks like backup and restore, but will not stay powered on in Android.
Is it possible my battery is at fault here? I noticed that even though I have it plugged into the charger, it doesn't seem to be replenishing. Or at least the is what the indicator tells me.
Any thoughts? Thanks.
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Did you try to flash 4.4.4 stock via fastboot?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Do you have the warranty?
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Did you try to flash 4.4.4 stock via fastboot?
https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images
Do you have the warranty?
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No I didn't. Don't know why that would make a difference, but I will try it since I can do it. I have no warranty that covers water damage.
OK so my mother dropped her phone in the toilet and it died basically. I left it to dry then tried it again. It came on but the battery said 0% and it powered back off. When I plugged it in the icon came up and said 99% but it wouldn't come on without being plugged in so I assume it fried the battery when it got wet with power in it. I tried to reset it by holding the buttons but then it got stuck in download mode and wouldn't start up anymore for some reason, so I tried installing TWRP which failed. I assume with no battery power the device is just losing power and causing it to fail. So basically now I'm stuck on a screen when I plug it in that just says it needs to be recovered.
I took it apart but managed to damage the screen (like an idiot) so I bought a new screen. Basically she didn't want to lose the pictures from the phone so I have a new battery ordered to try power the board and at least get the data from it if it has a charging problem before replacing the board. I'm hoping it's only the battery that's damaged but I doubt she'd be that lucky. If it does need a new board then I'll get her one but I was just hoping to at least get the data back if possible.
Anyway my whole point is since it's not starting up, if I flash TWRP the data is encrypted and inaccessible right? Is there even a way to use a HOME_CSC or something or is the data just done for?
EDIT: As far as I'm aware it was just on the latest stock ROM before doing anything.