All credits to zeppelinrox
Original post is
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11803458&postcount=10
I have NOT tried it myself and so if it works do let people know.
I'm putting it in DEV section since it is recommended to be done before every new ROM installation. If the MODS think otherwise please move it to General section.
Here are the steps:
zeppelinrox said:
1. While in Android, charge up to 100% and leave the phone plugged in.
2. Delete /data/system/batterystats.bin
3. Remove back cover
4. Press Power and choose to reboot normally.
5. When the screen goes black and the lights go out, pull out the battery before you get the M logo. It will probably still work after the M logo shows up but that's how I do it.
6. Surprise: The phone will boot up without the battery! - Mine does - every time
Note: Batterystats.bin is recreated when you see the M logo - even though the battery isn't in the phone.
Go to Step 8 if the phone booted up as described.
7. If it doesn't boot up and you see the battery with the ?
..........a) Put the battery back in (you will see 60%),
..........b) Power off the phone (press power until LED light goes out)
..........c) Power on the phone (press power until you see the M logo)
..........d) Remove battery... and watch bootanimation...
8. a) After the surprise of seeing the boot animation without a battery, you will then see the lock screen along with a "No SIM card error" and no signal.
...... Put the battery back in - the SIM card error will disappear, you will get a signal, it will show 60% full and the icon will show the battery charging.
...... Go to Step 9 if this works as planned. If it doesn't, reboot (again without the battery) and use step 8b instead of step 8a.
... b) Put the battery back in during the bootanimation, but after the haptic feedback/vibration (and the buttons along the bottom light up).
....... On a normal reboot, you can actually slide and unlock the phone when you get the vibration during the boot animation. You knew that, right?
9. Use your phone normally while you calibrate the battery
10. Let it fill it up to 100% + 15 minutes or so. When it is truly finished charging, the battery should be cool.
11. If the phone is running hot, weird things can happen. For example, you may get no signal when you put the battery back in or the battery doesn't begin charging (the status bar battery icon doesn't change). Just let the phone cool off and it should work next time.
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My ds won't turn on, when I press power button it just vibrate 3 times and orange led. When I put it on charger it shows that is charging (orange led, and after a while green). When I press vol - + power it vibrate 5 times and show green led. Nothing on the screen.
I left it over night without battery, and than put battery in and left it like that for few hours, and after that it starts and work normal, but I need to put SIM card and restart it, and again same thing, it wont start.
Does anyone knows how to solve this issue, because I don't want to wait whole day when I restart my phone in future?
hboot 2.00.0002,
stock kernel
rom shadow hawk v2.1
Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04
tash985 said:
My ds won't turn on, when I press power button it just vibrate 3 times and orange led. When I put it on charger it shows that is charging (orange led, and after a while green). When I press vol - + power it vibrate 5 times and show green led. Nothing on the screen.
I left it over night without battery, and than put battery in and left it like that for few hours, and after that it starts and work normal, but I need to put SIM card and restart it, and again same thing, it wont start.
Does anyone knows how to solve this issue, because I don't want to wait whole day when I restart my phone in future?
hboot 2.00.0002,
stock kernel
rom shadow hawk v2.1
Radio_20.4801.30.0822U_3822.10.08.04
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To check to see if it's the dreaded eMMC failure, follow the guide in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
wnp_79 said:
To check to see if it's the dreaded eMMC failure, follow the guide in this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
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Thank you for answering, but it's not that (I already check that), it works just fine when it power up, but when I turn it off, I need to wait 8 - 10 hours to start it again.
I honesty don't know how to describe my problem so I guess I will just tell you whats happening and what I know about my phone.
My phone:
Unlocked Verizon Galaxy S3 running CM for recovery, and CyanogenMod 10 for the ROM (Updated with Odin from Jelly Bean).
The issue:
1) Whenever I press the power button the phone completely shuts off. It doesn't just go to the lock screen, it turns off.
2) The phone will not always turn back on.
3) 85% of the time when it doesn't turn on, it boots into the first splash screen and turns off.
4) When I try to put the phone into download or recovery mode the first screen will pop up for about two seconds and then the phone will turn off again. The phone will either shut down on the cancel/download screen for download mode or the first splash screen with the blue text at the top for recovery mode.
5) The other 15% of the time it will reach the CyanogenMod screen, freeze, then shut off.
6) When I put it on the charger, the stock charging icon pops up but then the phone stops charging and shuts off. (It will charge correctly some times)
These things don't just happen if I press the power button. I used a custom app to turn the phone off without the power button and the problems still occurred.
Things I've tried:
1) Replacing the battery.
2) Switching chargers.
3) Leaving the phone on the charger for a while.
4) Taking the battery out for extended amounts of time.
5) Just leaving the phone alone for a while.
No, the power button isn't stuck... I don't think it is
I am aware that the motherboard might need replaced. However, most of the cases I read about involved the phone not turning on/charging at all. If I could get the phone into recovery mode I would clear the cache and see if that worked, if not I would just factory reset the phone. If I could get into download mode, I would flash a stock firmware and be done with it.
This is my second android phone and I've never had this problem before. I did my experimenting with my old Motorola Droid so I could make sure I knew what was safe with my S3 but apparently there is something wrong.
I greatly appreciate any and all help and please do help me
[EDIT #1]
I began hitting the power button against a hard surface and 1 out of 7 times it works. Perhaps the button is stuck.
[EDIT #2]
I am now able to press the power button without the phone turning off. I will still make a back up and sync all of my important media and prepare to have to factory reset and flash a new ROM.
Hi,
First I hope I'm posting this in the right place - to get assistance/direction that will help my situation. If not my apologies - please send me to the right place.
I have a Nexus 5, Android 5.0.1, Rooted.
- My device was charging then suddenly went into boot cycle - showing the Google logo then powering off and repeating the same. Trying to get into recovery mode was impossible - would power cycle out of there too.
- I have tried doing the multiple fast press, and sticky button clean solution (actually taking the back plate off etc.) posted out on the net but that has not resolved my issue.
- Left my phone to charge overnight. The problem still persists. More accurately. Turning it on without it plugged in to the charger does nothing.
All the following is the behavior when its plugged into the charger:
- Without pressing any button just shows a full battery charge icon for about 8 sec then the screen turns black for two seconds and that keeps on repeating. If I press the power button it shows the Google logo for a 1.5 seconds and shuts of, going back to the battery charge icon flashing cycle.
- Now if I press the power and volume down button It takes me to the fast boot mode screen where can cycle through the menu's <Start, Restart Bootloader, Recovery mode, power off>. None of the options work. No matter which I chose the phone shuts of and goes back to the full battery icon cycle.
- I was thinking a battery issue but, when in recovery mode the phone will not turn off. I can use the volume buttons to go through the menu as pointed above but using the power button just takes me back to the battery icon cycle. Now I'm not sure, battery, power button or software. What could it be?
I am thinking, try a new battery or, damn buy a new phone (my phone has outlived its warranty). If there are any ideas on fixing this I'll appreciate your opinions. If i have to get a new phone is there any hope of salvaging data. I have a 4 month backup on my computer, but my latest is stored on my phone.
Thanks.
If you run into this issue and none of the solutions in my original post apply, read on in case my final solution helps you out (you might not even have to get paid help if you know how to work on the fault I was experiencing). If not - nothing more for you to gain if you read on.
As it stands:
I took my device to a reputable cell repair shop. After describing to them the symptoms of my device the out ruled the stuck power button issue and tentatively diagnosed it as a firmware bug or nand memory corruption issue which would require a nand mem flash which they had the tools to do. I went for it.
When I went to pickup the device. They reported that the device was functional and they did not even have to do the flush. My data is safe. Issue was a loose battery contact which they detected and fixed. It's been 8 hours and all looks good. These guys were going to charge me a $80 bill to do the flash if the recovery was successful, but I had to leave a $56 deposit after tax for them to begin the work and pay the balance if the procedure was successful. When closing the deal they just gave me the device and said since they did not have to do what they anticipated, the deposit I left them was satisfactory.
I have my device back and working (at least for now) and have the chance to make external backups incase the issue reoccurs. I'm happy. Cheers.
Plz sugeest me how to go about this.
I recently looking into one app and the phone restarted with white screen with bright keys. Screen is not displaying anything.
Plz help me.
I pressed power key for more than 2 mins, it is not even restarting ...
try to reboot with ADB
sscsps said:
try to reboot with ADB
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How could i do that if they phone is not getting restarted properly ? ?
Plz point me to the correct links
nag9s said:
How could i do that if they phone is not getting restarted properly ? ?
Plz point me to the correct links
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explain the current condition of your device, is it charged? how much battery do you think it have?
Here are some simple steps you can try:
1. leave the device as is(if it is ON) or use it as much as you can till it's battery drains properly and shuts down on its own.
2. try to turn it ON by holding the power button.
3. if it turns ON, use it till it is not able to turn on(0% battery).
4. plug the charger in and see how it behaves.
5. if its charging, then let it charge to 20-30 percent and then reboot to recovery,
6. Reset your device(wipe data).
7. if it is not charging, then its a hardware issue, can be on charger's part, or in phone itself, try a new charger that is known to work.
8. if its not the charger, I'm afraid you'd need to get it checked by some repair person.
sscsps said:
explain the current condition of your device, is it charged? how much battery do you think it have?
Here are some simple steps you can try:
1. leave the device as is(if it is ON) or use it as much as you can till it's battery drains properly and shuts down on its own.
2. try to turn it ON by holding the power button.
3. if it turns ON, use it till it is not able to turn on(0% battery).
4. plug the charger in and see how it behaves.
5. if its charging, then let it charge to 20-30 percent and then reboot to recovery,
6. Reset your device(wipe data).
7. if it is not charging, then its a hardware issue, can be on charger's part, or in phone itself, try a new charger that is known to work.
8. if its not the charger, I'm afraid you'd need to get it checked by some repair person.
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Thanks Bro, I kept it long to have the batter drained. What is happening when i siwtched on next time ( after powering on ), I see white screen. Thereafter I couldnt be able either to boot to recovery or restart or shutdown
Hello I am having trouble with my Oneplus One. It won't turn on. Here are the details:
After 4 years of using, my battery could not support my phone. If I was using my battery's power, the phone would constantly reboot. So I plugged it into a power bank 24/7 in order to use the phone. It worked fine. Then, one day it would constantly reboot after the "cyanogen mod ready" screen.
Now, if I try to turn it on without it plugged in, it shows the oneplus logo and "poewred by android" screen, and reboots every 3 seconds with a vibrate. If I turn it on while plugged in, it passes the oneplus logo screen, and shows the cyanogen mod ready screen for ~10 seconds before powering off to show the battery charge percentage screen (at 100%).
I'm not sure how to fix this, but a possible solution is that I may need to replace the battery. I want to know if replacing the battery will wipe the data? I am trying to recover my photos and get my account from the LINE app. So I must be able to use the phone after. Where can I buy a working battery to replace it?
If the battery is not the issue, is there a solution to this?
Thanks so much