Got the phone last night. Worked fine except for the wifi issues that people have been discussing.
This morning, try to use GPS nav. As soon as the navigation starts, Maps would force close. Did this about 3 times before giving up and deciding to reboot. When I rebooted, it seems to boot, but nothing ever loads on the screen. I just have the status bar and the background wallpaper. That is literally it. No icons. No unlock screen. So basically the phone just sits there with the status bar and the wallpaper.
If I hold the power button for about 6 seconds, it reboots again, but it just goes back to the same screen: status bar and background wallpaper; no icons, no way to unlock, etc.
Any thoughts? I'm thinking I'm going to have to boot into recovery and just do a factory reset of the phone. Anybody know how to boot into recovery? Is it power + volume down?
EDIT: Also, FWIW, I haven't done anything unusual to the phone. No unusual apps. No custom launcher. The only thing I can think of is that I might have disabled some app that has somehow caused this, but I was pretty careful about what I disabled. So I'm really not sure.
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I was using an app on Sunday, when the app froze completely and the screen of the s3 went black. The only thing I could see was the status bar up top, but even that was unresponsive. So I pulled the battery and turned it back on, and it was acting extremely slow so I got impatient and started trying to get into settings, when it went unresponsive again.
This time I held down the power button to see if I could get it to respond and the lock screen came up, without my wallpaper and instead of Verizon Wireless at the top, it said "No Service". After a couple of seconds my wallpaper showed up and then it said Verizon Wireless. After I get through the lock screen, I would go through the same whole routine - e.g. try and get into settings, freeze, hold power, have it come back up, etc. So I battery pulled again.
Finally, I got it to boot OK, by just letting it be for 10 minutes and completely ignoring it.
However, today my battery drain was pretty fast, it was on for 12 hours and was down to 40% after only 30 minutes of screen time. The culprit was "Android System" at 61%, i've never seen this that high before. Because of the high "Android System" power usage, I thought it might be good to power it down. Upon boot up, I assumed I'd be able to use it immediately, so I started going into Settings, and yet again it went unresponsive.
Are the two issues unrelated? What should I do?
As a warning, I'm extremely new to anything smarter than a Nokia brick, so be patient - Thanks!
As inconvenient as it is, I would recommend a full system wipe and go back to out of the box. That seems to fix everything and unfortunately it is rather difficult to diagnose issues on phones, especially unrooted.
In order to do a wipe you can do one of two things, goto settings then backup and reset, then hit factory data reset.
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Turn off the phone. When you start it again hold volume-up, power, and home to get into recovery. Then do the factory reset.
Ok, I thought that's what my option was. Thanks dwibbles.
I honestly need help.
I'm not sure what to categorize my issue under.
I am stuck in a screen with the green android and the spinning thing in the middle, with a progress bar, but the bar just has a moving animation, looks like it is moving to the left, not getting longer or filling up like usual progress bars.
I am unable to get to the boot loader or recovery.
The issue started after I flashed Cyanogen Mod 10.2 Stable.
it booted fine then, but when I went to use it, it would have a never ending cycle of app not responding at the part where it asks to sign in to cyanogenmod account. I got to settings without signing in by quickly sliding the status bar and clicked on factory reset.
From there it proceded to reboot and now I am stuck in the screen described.
I have tried all the button combinations, reset with pin, nothing will get to bootloader or recovery.
ADB does not find the device, also no devices found when try fastboot devices line.
I have also tried putting the firmware zip on a microsd, but nothing new happens either.
any suggestions appreciated.
** edited ** Issue is resolved. Turns out I just needed to wait longer (about 2 hrs) ... I did turn it off using combo of power and Vol -, left it off overnight, turned it on in the morning and left it alone. I finished whatever it was trying to do, and now CyanogenMod 10.2 stable is working great.
TL: DR: Screen sometimes is totally black, but otherwise the screen seems to work fine. Sometimes the phone acts completely normal. Sometimes the phone acts completely normal, but the screen is tinted green, but only after it's booted up. I can access download screen with no issue, most of the time I can get into recovery with out a problem, but not always.
I'm brand new to the GS3, but I purchased it last week on ebay (described as fully functional) since my other phone has been giving me troubles. I received it last Thursday (5/15/14), and it seemed to work fine. I have not been able to activate it yet since I did not have 4G sim card, so I've just been playing with it around the house to make sure it works until I get my 4G card from Verizon in the mail.
So Saturday comes along, and I notice that the screen is all black, but makes the usual sounds when you touch the screen. I pull the battery, and boot it back up. The Samsung logo would come up, but none of the boot animation. Nothing after the Samsung logo. It seems that if I push the power button, the phone seems to be functional, but nothing comes up on the screen. Sometimes if I push the power button a bunch of times, I can get the screen to come on. The screen looked normal, and everything worked fine, until I hit the power button. Back to the black screen. I booted into recovery, cleared the cache and did a factory wipe, and it seemed to be completely normal for a while.
I've noticed that sometimes phone acts completely normal (proper colors, screen turns off and on as it should), sometimes it works normally but the screen is tinted green (power button turns off and on the screen as it should), and sometimes, the screen is totally black, but the touch functions work normally.
Since the screen always works at boot (I can see the Samsung logo clearly and with no color distortion, but sometimes the rest of the boot animation is gone, even though I hear the boot music), and there is also no color distortion in recovery or download mode, am I likely looking at a software issue?
It is not rooted, and completely stock on 4.1.2. EDIT:Baseband is VRBMF1.
I have tried to make my problem as clear as possible, but I will clarify anything if necessary.
Thanks.
I downgraded to VRBMB1 with ODIN, and I still seem to be having the same issue (screen goes black, won't come back on), although the green tint problem hasn't happened yet. As long as I leave the screen on, it works fine. I'm thinking that this might be a problem with the power button, although I don't understand why it would allow me into download mode with no issues, but trouble doing much of anything else. I'm probably going to be sending it back for a refund, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm more than willing to listen. Thanks.
Hi - I have tried multiple Lollipop based ROMs on my OPO. All the Lollipop ROMs have exhibited the same failure on my OPO: When the phone wakes up, I will randomly see a totally black - and basically unusable - desktop, but have a fully working Status Bar and working pull-down Navigation Bar. Holding the power button also brings up the shut-down options. so, I know that my phone isn't dead or frozen, I just can't see anything on my desktop. If I press the power button momentarily to lock the phone, I will see the unlock 3x3 pattern grid when I power on, and I can unlock the phone - but, I see a black desktop.
I recently loaded the official CM12 nightlies, and I am seeing the exact same thing. One thing I have finally determined (which I suspected previously), is that there was some sort of App crash during the phone sleep that had a pop-up message on the screen when the phone woke up. After a lot of random finger mashing and loud screaming at the phone, I saw my desktop again, and saw that "Google App" had crashed. After clearing the error pop-up, my phone has worked fine without rebooting ... for now.
The problem with this is that the black desktops become more frequent as time progressed, eventually reaching the point where I would reboot my OPO and it would power up to a black desktop. In the past, I occasionally saw a flash that looked like a pop-up message before the black desktop, and now I have confirmed that is what is happening.
Does anybody know what is going on?
The problem can be the gapps package you're flashing. Try another one.
MickyMax said:
The problem can be the gapps package you're flashing. Try another one.
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Thanks! Do you have a suggested gapps I should try? I loaded pa_gapps-modular-mini-5.0.1-BETA7-20150111a-signed with this build.
Hi all
Just wondered if anyone else has had a BSOD?
Brand new out the box, my Z5 connected and Google instantly downloaded my apps and contacts associated with my account from previous phone (Sammy Galaxy S4). This was OK, but it took a while and was about 70 apps. I rebooted after it was all done, of course, but occasionally I get this damn Black screen where everything is unresponsive (can't upload screenshot yet)
The only way to wake the phone up from this dark coma is to either reboot or switch user to guest then switch back again. Nothing else seems to work. Its probably one little app incompatibility but don't know how I'm going to find it except uninstalling 1 app at a time and testing the phone to see if it reoccurs. Could take ages to figure out.
Anyone suffering from this?
YES
Finally! Someone who seemingly has the same issue as I do!
It seems to happen most often when I hit the home button from snapchat, or some other camera app, but not always. Other details about my issue:
Screen goes black, but is clearly on. Status bar can still be dragged down, notifications can be pressed but do not respond. They can be dismissed.
Home screen, back, and recent apps buttons still respond, but do not do anything EXCEPT once in a while I can get it to go to just my background... no apps, icons, or anything else. At this point, the recent apps button disappears.
Prior to getting the black screen, my phone will not lock. It will turn off the screen when I press the power button, but when I press it again it is already unlocked.
Not sure what's up, or what I can do! Rebooting the phone helps for a little while, but I get it usually once or twice a day. It seems like it happens more on weekends, but that could just be confirmation bias since I used it more.
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Hmmm...
for me it doesn't seem to be triggered by anything - it just happens. (I don't have snapchat installed)
I've uploaded the screenshot as my profile image, so you can see the back triangle is the only thing that is not blacked out, that and the very top (battery/clock,signal, etc). If I tap the screen bottom right where the square is instead of seeing a list of recent apps the screen will flicker as if the list is scrolling up the screen but it all stays dark. I'm thinking of factory reset then reinstall everything. A PIA but as I have unlimited data it's no biggy.
Thanks for replying, Vargasm, and good luck with solving it. If you find anything out post back!
I have the same issue on my Z5 premium. There is no solution except reboot it. T^T
i have the same problem here. Phone is only a week old and totally stock. Have heard it may be due to a screen protector if you use one. I am loathe to remove mine though.