Recently my wifes phone was the victim of our kids knocking over a glass of soda on top of it. I cleaned it up the best i could and did the rice bowl trick and let it sit for about 2 days. Good news is that it seems to be working again(the screen that is lol) but now it is stuck on the green downloading Do not turn off target !!!! screen. I am guessing this is her s/w updater screen for updates. It will not boot into android. She told me she didn't want me to root her phone so it's completely stock. Any ideas on how i can get past this screen to boot up android?
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Looks like i'm gonna try this Method Might be the only way to save her phone and hope it boots into android.
I would ODIN the stock firmware, I am certain it has to be in the Bible (dev section).
Something like this, granted it has root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1045671
Thanks, weird thing is when i try plugging phone into pc from that green downloading screen the screen turns off. Don't think i can use odin without the phone staying on that screen correct. If i just hold the power button i can hear the phone starting up but no display. But the display showed up fine for the downloading screen... i'm stumped.
d12unk13astard said:
Thanks, weird thing is when i try plugging phone into pc from that green downloading screen the screen turns off. Don't think i can use odin without the phone staying on that screen correct. If i just hold the power button i can hear the phone starting up but no display. But the display showed up fine for the downloading screen... i'm stumped.
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If the com lights up yellow in Odin, you're good to go. That yellow com box assures you that Odin and your phone has made a connection.
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ok thanks for that info, hopefully i can get her phone back up and running if the phone lets me lol
i just left it alone for a little bit longer tried powering on the device and now it's booting android, the display is very washed out but i'm happy enough it's just working decent enough for now. I'm gonna go ahead and root it for her just becuase i can say rooting it helped return it back to life lol
she'll be thankful either way!
Ha, brave man...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
OK, so I haven't used my TF for a couple of weeks...it was in a sleeve and I assume the battery died. I went to boot it tonight, and it wouldn't (no real surprise)...so I plugged it in and let it charge for some time...still, nothing.
The screen does turn on, but it remains black - but you can tell the screen still works. Occasionally, when I hold the power button it the whole screen flashes blue and it quickly displays a bit of the Android Alien...never, ever, seen a blue screen with the Android logo on the tablet.
Anyway, I can't get it to boot. I've tried holding the power button, tried booting while holding the Vol+ and Vol- button...still, nothing.
Any ideas? Searching yields nothing like this...it's similar to the deep sleep, but clearly the screen still wakes (but remains black), and then I get a little flash of blue, too.
Thanks fellas.
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OK, so I haven't used my TF for a couple of weeks...it was in a sleeve and I assume the battery died. I went to boot it tonight, and it wouldn't (no real surprise)...so I plugged it in and let it charge for some time...still, nothing.
The screen does turn on, but it remains black - but you can tell the screen still works. Occasionally, when I hold the power button it the whole screen flashes blue and it quickly displays a bit of the Android Alien...never, ever, seen a blue screen with the Android logo on the tablet.
Anyway, I can't get it to boot. I've tried holding the power button, tried booting while holding the Vol+ and Vol- button...still, nothing.
Any ideas? Searching yields nothing like this...it's similar to the deep sleep, but clearly the screen still wakes (but remains black), and then I get a little flash of blue, too.
Thanks fellas.
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I've Googled again and again...nothing...all it does when I try and boot is flash to an old school Windows style blue screen...It flickers so I can't make out what it all says, it's doing some kind of memory check (?)...and something else, I think...but that's it. I tried this too: http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/how-to-unbrick-asus-eee-pad-transformer-honeycomb-tablet/
Is this thing FUBAR???
Nobody has any clues about what to do hear? Seriously?
I can't even get it to boot...the screen turns on, but remains black, unless it flashes that blue screen...what do?
nvflash a flashable rom...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1123429
"bricked" is such an overused phrase on xda.
EDIT: sorry, didn't click the link on the second post
what does 'it doesn't work' mean in the context of nvflash? does it refuse to connect? does it successfully flash it but not start? more info would be appreciated
Yea, it connects. My computer recognizes it, I can get in ADX (?) mode, it flashes. From my computer side of things it works, but the entire time the NVFlash process is going I don't see anything on my screen. So it appears to work on the computer side of things, but not on the tablet side. I still have the booting problems and the blue screen.
Thanks so much
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Probably something hardware on the inside then.
^Agree with the above post
although while you are flashing something, you aren't supposed to have screen activity on it. I hope you didn't pull the plug because of that.
I hope that you can find a solution to your problem, but it might actually be a ram problem or something
Damn...I was afraid it would be hardware related. So, I was (am?) rooted and was running a custom ROM...can I still send this to Asus? Will they replace it, or am I just effed? Thanks guys, I appreciate the insights.
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They will replace it, but they might charge you for it. Most of the time you can get away with "custom rom? what does that mean? I just used the installer thingy with the cord in the computer and tablet" Just ask them for an RMA #, they're pretty good at that kind of stuff.
Unless, of course, you overclocked it to something insane and fried the circut board, you should be good to go.
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They will replace it, but they might charge you for it. Most of the time you can get away with "custom rom? what does that mean? I just used the installer thingy with the cord in the computer and tablet" Just ask them for an RMA #, they're pretty good at that kind of stuff.
Unless, of course, you overclocked it to something insane and fried the circut board, you should be good to go.
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I was running Revolver. Then I followed the unbricking instructions on that link...no change.he in how my TF acted before or after. I filed for an RMA online, and will go that route. No crazy overclocking. Thanks.
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Asus told me the screen on mine is dead. i have to send it to them
mine boot but after 2 sec the screen goes black. even when i press the power button it only turns on for 2 sec. good thing i went back to stock before all that madness went down
kinda sucks i wanted to try all the new roms now i gotta wait at least a week still the RMA send it back
same problem black screen flashes blue
same problem as polkadots
screen lights up (i.e. not backlight problem) stay lit and then flashes blue. You have to press power to shut off the black screen (i.e. not backlight problem). I have not tried to do any roms it was a refurbished product that worked fine for a month and then had this problem. have tried hard and soft resets and the black screen comes on and acts like it is working. then it flashes blue upon the touch and goes back to black screen. any ideas? anyone with same problem? do i have to send back to Asus?
Ok, stop me if you've heard this one before (I've searched and searched to find a solution to this issue, so I appreciate any help I can get)
I recently rooted my TF101 and have been flashing different ROM's to see which one I like the best. I'm not a complete NOOB, but I've never done flashing on a tablet before. I flashed Megatron 1.6.1 and when I went to reboot I couldn't get out of recovery and it kept looping back to recovery despite my doing a complete re-wipe/flash. When I finally powered down I wasn't able to power back on.
Now the unit will not turn on, either regularly or in recovery. It's completely dead. I've been letting it sit plugged in for a while to see if that helped and still nothing. I've held the power button down in every conceivable way and for different lengths of time and still nothing.
I'm at my wits end... any help would be AMAZING!!! Thank you in advance.
Can you get into APX mode? You may want to nvflash back to stock and try again.
Sometimes the tf not really shutdown, it just freeze in black screen when we thought it already shutdown. Undock it and plug in charger to see if it charging as it might be given up totally battery drained.
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I have been unable to get the unit into APX mode... when I plug it into the PC it recognizes it as a generic device but I can't do anything with it other than eject it.
I've heard about the "deep sleep" issue and I was really hoping it was something simple like that. I've left it plugged in over night and it still won't respond to anything.
Is this thing bricked? I'm used to troubleshooting issues with devices but typically if it can't even turn on there's not much that can be done. I'm fearing the WORST!!!
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I have been unable to get the unit into APX mode... when I plug it into the PC it recognizes it as a generic device but I can't do anything with it other than eject it.
I've heard about the "deep sleep" issue and I was really hoping it was something simple like that. I've left it plugged in over night and it still won't respond to anything.
Is this thing bricked? I'm used to troubleshooting issues with devices but typically if it can't even turn on there's not much that can be done. I'm fearing the WORST!!!
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it happened to my wife's tf101 too we went out of town for a 2 day vacation then we forgot to shut it down..when we got back we noticed that it connected to our wireless tether...when we tried to open it the device simply wont open...but the thing is you could hear it starting up and plays music when hitting the play button on the dock..but the screen is all dead...i dont know what to do
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it happened to my wife's tf101 too we went out of town for a 2 day vacation then we forgot to shut it down..when we got back we noticed that it connected to our wireless tether...when we tried to open it the device simply wont open...but the thing is you could hear it starting up and plays music when hitting the play button on the dock..but the screen is all dead...i dont know what to do
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The battery might be drained after 2 days away. Try charge it individually first.
As the OP issue.. I fear it might be the display problem but you must be certain before judging it to hardware issue. Still best way is flashing it to stock via NVflash method when all the screen give is black. You can do it by just listening the connection sound on your PC and install the right driver for the APX to work.
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farsight73 said:
The battery might be drained after 2 days away. Try charge it individually first.
As the OP issue.. I fear it might be the display problem but you must be certain before judging it to hardware issue. Still best way is flashing it to stock via NVflash method when all the screen give is black. You can do it by just listening the connection sound on your PC and install the right driver for the APX to work.
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i already tried nvflashing back to stock it went back to stock but the screen still wont turn on...i charged it for 12 hours still nothing.but it plays music still ...after getting pissed off,,,my wife hits the tf101 screen and then it turns on finally but the screen was orange and red... then she hit it again then i think she damaged it once more hahhaha....im pissed off too but when thinkin bout her face while hitting the tf101 EPIC hahahha...any help wanted i wanna buy new screen... attatched is the picture she sent me hahaha
Hello, I am trying to fix my friends phone and I cannot seem to get anything to work. Anytime I put in a battery the phone turns on to a white screen, nothing else. Sometimes the screen is pure white and sometimes it is kind of a slight pixelated colored look. Tried to use a jig and it is not working. The computer will detect the phone when plugged in but it will not recognize the device and shows as unknown device. I am not getting any logo screens or anything, nothing but the white screen. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
Well knowing step use qkster one click hemidall n try to put phone in download mode I know blindly n all but try n if hemidall pick up phone u can set back hopefully
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riotstarter said:
Hello, I am trying to fix my friends phone and I cannot seem to get anything to work. Anytime I put in a battery the phone turns on to a white screen, nothing else. Sometimes the screen is pure white and sometimes it is kind of a slight pixelated colored look. Tried to use a jig and it is not working. The computer will detect the phone when plugged in but it will not recognize the device and shows as unknown device. I am not getting any logo screens or anything, nothing but the white screen. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.
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as stated...there is the one click or the odin.
ok install or reinstall drivers...and make sure the battery is charged, let it sit for a few hours to get some power back in it...
see my links for the Infuse Super Thread for all the tools you will need.
I have tried those methods. I cannot get the device to go into download mode, blindly or not. Also I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers many times and the device still always shows as unknown device no matter what. I have heard how hard it is to brick these things but damn, this one seems like it is, atleast beyond my abilities. He said what he was doing was updating the firmware and it froze. At first he said it showed the yellow triangle but he really didn't know what he was doing and once the battery died the screen would just flash white. Well he has since bought a stand alone battery charger and everything I have been trying does not work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584583
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496453
google: xda infuse white screen
qkster said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584583
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1496453
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hey I remember that the first link...the white screen of no where...LOL
Started having display problems earlier last month. When i press any of the keys to turn the screen on, sometimes the screen would stay off and the buttons on the bottom of the screen would light up. If i pressed the power button again the button lights would turn off.
I would have to wait several minutes or often times pull the battery for the screen to turn on again.
I deleted ALL apps I was running and it still happened
I then decided maybe it was my ROM/Kern. so I wiped everything and flashed Pac man.
Still had the same problem so I decided I would go back to stock and attempt to lock the bootloader.
This is where my phone started acting like a 7 year old child.
In download mode the screen would stay black, but when i plugged it into the computer it showed up. even in Odin the ports would show up.
So in all my infinite non wisdom I decided to blind flash. All was going well until the end where instead of "PASS" it said reboot and kept ground hog daying on me.
then the reboots stopped. and the awesome "PASS" words showed up with a green background on odin. SUCCESS...
NOT! what a tease!
I cant get into download nor recovery mode since my screen doesnt turn on. When I boot I hear the stock boot sounds etc but the screen wont turn on nor will the buttons light up.
I've read numerous reports on the S3 just black screening on people (makes me wish I kept my galaxy nexus instead)
Now before I call in for warranty (i dont believe the phone is bricked?) will it matter if my bootloader is unlocked?
in all honesty I believe this issue is from the phone and not me flashing roms etc. but most of the members on here are much brighter and more aware of these issues so I'll let you guys decide.
Anyone else hear of this issue or am I the lone ranger here?
Thanks in advance everyone :good::good::good:
UPDATE: Phone screen turns on but stays forever on the 4G LTE rave party light show boot up animation lol Merry xmas to me i guess!
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Started having display problems earlier last month. When i press any of the keys to turn the screen on, sometimes the screen would stay off and the buttons on the bottom of the screen would light up. If i pressed the power button again the button lights would turn off.
I would have to wait several minutes or often times pull the battery for the screen to turn on again.
I deleted ALL apps I was running and it still happened
I then decided maybe it was my ROM/Kern. so I wiped everything and flashed Pac man.
Still had the same problem so I decided I would go back to stock and attempt to lock the bootloader.
This is where my phone started acting like a 7 year old child.
In download mode the screen would stay black, but when i plugged it into the computer it showed up. even in Odin the ports would show up.
So in all my infinite non wisdom I decided to blind flash. All was going well until the end where instead of "PASS" it said reboot and kept ground hog daying on me.
then the reboots stopped. and the awesome "PASS" words showed up with a green background on odin. SUCCESS...
NOT! what a tease!
I cant get into download nor recovery mode since my screen doesnt turn on. When I boot I hear the stock boot sounds etc but the screen wont turn on nor will the buttons light up.
I've read numerous reports on the S3 just black screening on people (makes me wish I kept my galaxy nexus instead)
Now before I call in for warranty (i dont believe the phone is bricked?) will it matter if my bootloader is unlocked?
in all honesty I believe this issue is from the phone and not me flashing roms etc. but most of the members on here are much brighter and more aware of these issues so I'll let you guys decide.
Anyone else hear of this issue or am I the lone ranger here?
Thanks in advance everyone :good::good::good:
UPDATE: Phone screen turns on but stays forever on the 4G LTE rave party light show boot up animation lol Merry xmas to me i guess!
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im bout to try to take mine into verizon tomorrow before i call samsung for that exact reason. unlocked bootloader/flash counter. ill update tomorrow.