So today, as i was on my way to work I accidentally held down the lockscreen button and the power menu popped up (I was on Glorious Overdoes V2) in the middle of a text and i pressed reboot accidentally... My phone never rebooted... It was stuck on the black Sidekick 4G/T-Mobile screen and then it would go black, then once again that screen would pop up... I removed the battery and put it back in, and without me pressing any buttons the same screen came back up... I let it sit for a while and after 20minutes nothing changed except the phone got really hot. Luckily I had my OLD Nokia in my car and popped my SIM card in it so that i could continue having a phone. I let The Sidekick sit for 4hours and it was extremely hot and then eventually it just turned off completely (Im assuming the battery drained, it was at 90% 4 hours before.) I got home, plugged it in and it wouldn't even turn on the charging screen. Somebody told me that my Motherboard is fried but I don't know. I called T-mobile and they're going to send me a new phone since it's still in the 1-year warranty period.
Anyone know if they're going to be able to inspect my old device and find out if i rooted/flashed it? because i can't get into it or anything to ODIN
I feel like they will try putting a new battery in it, and if it still wont turn on you should be fine.
It got hot because the CPU was churning over something and couldn't enter a low power state. I bet you could coax the phone into download mode and reflash it.
what do you mean coax the phone into download mode? by using the button combo to get it into download mode when turning on? I've tried that and it doesn't work. I tried rebooting into recovery and that wont work either. Also, it wont charge the battery anymore...
I've always had a hard time getting into download mode, and my phone works fine. I just spent 5 minutes trying different combinations until I got it.
I've heard people say trackpad-power button, volume down-home-power button, volume up/down-put battery in-plug in USB, etc etc etc. But the only method that works for me is to put in the battery, plug in the USB, wait for the charging screen, then hold volume down-trackpad-power, releasing power as soon as the screen goes black
You say your phone is turning on as soon as the battery is inserted? What if you have it plugged into USB first?
I had the exact same problem, I sent it into samsung and they just replaced a part(never told me which one) and it was fixed. I did noticed that when the sccreen was poped open to show the keyboard, it would stop. But it's probably a loose cable like I've read before.
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Worst case scenario if you can't figure it out here on XDA, you could always sell it on eBay for parts as defective.
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This morning, I had noticed my G Tablet had been running sluggishly. So I thoight it was just that wakeup bug, but then when I shut it off and tried to restart it, I saw nothing on the screen - at all. I could not even get it into APX mode to see if using nvflash would somehow bring it to life. But I did notoce one thing. When the adapter was plugged in, the charging light would flash red. Is there anything that I can do? I dont want to return it, seeing as theyre in stock virtually nowhere.
My evo does something very similar when it turns off because the battery is 'totally' dead. When I plug it in, the charging light flashes until there is some minimal charge on the battery (maybe enough to turn it on), then the light goes solid and my evo charges normally.
Try plugging it in and just letting it charge, then see what happens.
Have you contact viewsonic support? You have 30. Days replacement warranty
I think it's frozen. I've had the same thing happen to me. If so, then you have two options:
1- Open up the back of the device and hit the reset button on the system board. Yes, there's a button in there for some bizarro reason. I assume this is not really an option for you, but wanted to mention it.
2- Leave the device unplugged and wait for the battery to completely drain (this takes about 24 hours). Once it's drained, plug it back in and hit the power switch and it should start up fine.
When this happens, the long press on the power doesn't seem to fix it. Our device really need a reset button on the outside of the device. Ugh.
Tried the opening thing - It doesn't work. So today I sent it back to Amazon for a refund. You know damn well I'm gonna buy myself another one! I'm mad though, it cost me $399 before, and now it went up to $419.
Sears.com has it for $379.
ETA: A little googling might yield a coupon code.
Hey guys,
So my beloved Nexus S has completely seemed to have kicked the bucket. I'll tell you what happened in as much detail as I can, followed by what I've tried and if any of you guys have any tips, please enlighten me cause as it stands right now, I am at a loss.
I was over at my buddy's place for the game tonight and his place is pretty much a faraday cage where I get absolutely no signal. So upon leaving I noticed that my phone is still displaying zero bars. Nothing unusual. Figured I'll check it again in a minute or two to let it reconnect. 5 minutes pass and still nothing. Rare but I have had this happen before. On the rare occasion that the phone just wasn't able to jump back onto Wind's network, I would either cycle airplane mode on and off or just restart the phone and this would fix it. So I turn airplane mode on but notice that while the signal meter disappears, the plane icon never pops up. At this point I start thinking something is amiss... I try to turn wifi on or off but once again, it doesn't pick up anything.... time to cycle the power. So I hold down the power button, select Power Off on the pop up menu and wait for the phone to shut down. Phone shuts off. Wait a few seconds. Turn phone back on. The Google logo appears for a brief second, then the screen just goes blank and the phone just dies.
The phone is rooted but is running stock Jellybean.
Battery was at least 50% when this happened.
It will not respond to the power button at all.
I've tried pulling the battery as well as using my spare battery.
I've tried holding Vol Up + Power, as well as Vol Up + Vol Down + Power.
I've tried plugging it into the charger. (No response. Doesn't even show as charging).
I've tried plugging it into my laptop. Same thing. Tried pulling the battery while it's plugged in and booting/holding reset. Nothing
Phone is completely bricked.
Edit: Just noticed this but I've had the phone plugged into my laptop while typing this up and the area just above the battery around the SIM card has heated up a bit.
Any suggestions? I seriously don't have the cash for a new phone right now so any help is much appreciated =/.
Most likely the motherboard is toast. Happened to a lot of us after upgraded to JB/CM10.
Bring it back to Wind service centre for repair. Not sure how much you will be paying if out of warranty.
I plugged my phone in last night and when I woke up today it was off. I pulled out the charging cord and held the power button with no effect. Thinking the cord may have slipped partly out and let the phone die, I plugged it back in and was greeted by the battery charging screen, showing full charge. I pressed the power button and the phone went black. On further investigation, it seems my press of the power button didn't have to do with it turning off, as whenever I plug it in it shows the full battery screen for a couple of seconds before turning off again. If I unplug it and plug it back in it just repeats this. I've reseated the battery, I've tried holding volume down and the power button, and nothing's changed the phone's behavior. The phone is completely stock, and never opened beyond the battery and card doors.
It's pretty old and I'm pretty sure I do have an upgrade available, so I'm not too upset if I have to buy a new phone, but I'd like to confirm that it is FUBAR before I go that far, and I'd like to be able to extract my data if possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I plugged my phone in last night and when I woke up today it was off. I pulled out the charging cord and held the power button with no effect. Thinking the cord may have slipped partly out and let the phone die, I plugged it back in and was greeted by the battery charging screen, showing full charge. I pressed the power button and the phone went black. On further investigation, it seems my press of the power button didn't have to do with it turning off, as whenever I plug it in it shows the full battery screen for a couple of seconds before turning off again. If I unplug it and plug it back in it just repeats this. I've reseated the battery, I've tried holding volume down and the power button, and nothing's changed the phone's behavior. The phone is completely stock, and never opened beyond the battery and card doors.
It's pretty old and I'm pretty sure I do have an upgrade available, so I'm not too upset if I have to buy a new phone, but I'd like to confirm that it is FUBAR before I go that far, and I'd like to be able to extract my data if possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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If you have access to another battery, you could try that, but since you're seeing the full battery symbol I'm guessing that that's not the issue. You can always recover your sdcard data by putting it in a card reader, but the phone's apps, app data, and settings may be more difficult.
Well, turns out the problem was much less serious than I thought: my charging cord has bitten the dust. I'm not sure why I've been seeing the full battery, but when I took it to the AT&T store, the person who helped me plugged it in and it started right up. I just need to get a cable that's not my years-old piece of crap that came with the phone.
I took a nap today, and my phone had 60 percent. No background processes going or anything but the phone shut itself off anyways. Refused to turn back on or register that it was being charged when I plugged it in. I had to hold both volumes and the power button to hard reset it in to recovery (which is stock) to get it to power back on. Is there a fix for this or should I take the phone back and try something else? I haven't even had it a full 24 hours yet.
Something almost exactly like this happened with my HTC One X, after restarting it got stuck on boot... Eventually it would just show a charging light sometimes. Had to get the motherboard replaced.
On the other hand I have heard a bad battery can cause similar problems.
Just get it replaced, better safe than sorry.
Yea I just left the verizon. They pronounced my phone DOA. So they're giving me a brand new in box replacement but I have to drive to the only location in Colorado that has any white ones in Stock lol.
was running a solid PA 5.0 Rom then My screen broke about a month ago so I broke out one of my cheap $30 Wal-Mart phones until I decided what to do with it. Finally decided to get a screen + digitizer kit, replaced it all no problem went to turn it on and had a red light blink for a few seconds and then nothing. . Tried all volume & power button combos but no dice. Been trying and googling for days now. I can plug my phone into a pc and get it into adb fastboot mode by holding vol- and power button sometimes it gets recognized a mtp usb device but wont install any drivers and if I hold all three buttons it shows up as qhusb_bulk but it still won't boot up normally tho and nothing displaying in the screen. bought it from swappa over a year ago so the warranty is probably up. any suggestions?
qhusb is a brick. Try and follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/fix-unbrick-nexus-5-stucked-qualcomm-hs-t3043301
I had the same thing. Phone in a drawer and red light fluttered then that was that. I put a new battery in.
As you probably know when the battery dies there its in fact 10% left for boot up. In my case it had gone to zero so there was nothing to power the charging circuits etc. Worked for me. I found a way to charge the other later and it's a spare
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qhusb is a brick. Try and follow this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/fix-unbrick-nexus-5-stucked-qualcomm-hs-t3043301
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alright did that now it gets recognized on my computer as normal and phone vibrates when i turn it on, guessing the screen i got was bad cuz that still doesn't work, I'll just send it back and get a new one. many Thanks!