Hi,
I've been running Megatron ROM for the last couple of weeks with no issues. Tonight when I turned on my tablet it offered me a ROM update to 1.1.3, so I downloaded the update, rebooted into recovery and installed the zip.
When the tablet restarted it kept saying "unfortunately system ui has stopped" and I couldn't access the menu buttons at the bottom of the screen. I managed to get the tablet to power off and I was going to boot into recovery, wipe and reinstall the full ROM again but I couldn't get the tablet to power on.
I plugged it into the wall charger and managed to get it to boot (system ui crashed again) so I powered it off again and now it's completely dead.
I've tried to power on with all combinations of the Vol Up/Down and power button, nothing.
I guess I wait for the battery to discharge and try again?
Any other ideas? Am I bricked?
1.1.3 is a update only. Install 1.1.2 from the thread and then 1.1.3
and delete this directory "/data/data/com.android.providers.media"
I can't get the tablet to power up, it's dead!
I'll wait until the battery has discharged and try to power on.
mappy24 said:
I can't get the tablet to power up, it's dead!
I'll wait until the battery has discharged and try to power on.
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connect the charger. if it doesn't power up, hold the power button until it does
I held the power button for 5 minutes, nothing.
Will try again tomorrow, the battery was at 45% when it died.
Still couldn't get it to turn on this morning, i'll keep trying over the weekend.
If I still can't get it to turn on after a few days I'll try charging it overnight to see if I can revive it. It's looking very bricked at the moment though
Let sit for a full day or so
Plug in the charger to the tf but not the wall and ground it somehow (piece of metal etc.)
Hold the power button for 3-5 mins (to discharge)
Shout, PRAISE ODIN!
Plug in tf to wall for a minute.
Unplug
Hold power.
This is how I revived a Sph-d700 that I had in a really bad state, the odin step is crucial. Good luck.
Is it not even possible to boot into the recovery mode when you only plug the tablet to the PC?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
last case scenario, try and boot into APX and use adb to reinstall your system
I had it attached to my pc last night and tried all combinations of vol-up/down and power, the tablet never appeared in device manager. I understand that APX mode the screen stays blank but something should appear in device manager, right?
I'll see if I can get any life out of it tonight and if not, i'll give it a charge and try again tomorrow.
Thanks for the advice everyone.
Guys, after a 1 hour charge i've managed to get the tablet to boot again.
System UI stops on loading.
I've used adb reboot to get into CWM, the up and down buttons work but the power button doesn't respond. I can't choose any options in CWM.
How should I proceed to get the tablet usable again?
mappy24 said:
Guys, after a 1 hour charge i've managed to get the tablet to boot again.
System UI stops on loading.
I've used adb reboot to get into CWM, the up and down buttons work but the power button doesn't respond. I can't choose any options in CWM.
How should I proceed to get the tablet usable again?
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You can use the "touch" recovery. Use the repacked by Roach.
It only read from the internal SD card so put all your files you need to flash there.
Just DON'T use a superwipe script or you'll have nothing to flash.
Right, i've managed to flash Megatron 1.1.2 again, the system ui error is gone.
However, it looks like my power button has failed which would explain why I couldn't turn the tablet on or work with CWM.
I guess I try and flash to stock and contact Asus....
It looks like the power button isn't broken, it just needs to be pressed harder than usual to get the tablet to turn on. I've changed the settings so that the volume rocker wakes the tablet.
Flashed Megatron 1.1.2 then 1.1.3 and we're back in business
Edit: PRAISE ODIN!
Just a quick update, I noticed that my power button was at a slight angle, it looks as though it had slipped and the bit of plastic behind the button was sitting below the actual button on the tablet, meaning that I had to push the button harder to turn it on (if that makes sense).
I got a small bit of blu-tac and pulled the button up, which appears to have reseated it and it's now working as it was before.
Glad to here everything is working again. The question now is why this happened in the first place?
Did you go from 1.0.4 to 1.1.3? I am on 1.1.3 with no issues but as said in the Megatron thread, you have to fully wipe coming from 1.0.4 plus 1.1.2 has to be installed before installing the 1.1.3 update.
I don't know, I was on 1.1.2 and installed the 1.1.3 update then when I rebooted I started to get the UI error. That's really the only problem that I had with Megatron, it would have been easily fixed by just wiping and reinstalling.
It was just at that point that my power button started to play up which confused the issue.
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I was trying to get 2.2 on my captivate. It got hung and after about an hour, I powered down phone (battery out).
I'm now getting [phone... (!).. COMPUTER] picture
Trying to get back to stock ROM 2.1, but I cannot get device in download mode
I had to use adb to get in download mode originally.
Is it possible I got a phone that doesn't go into download mode based on button combinations? If so, what do I do?
Unplug your phone from USB
Pull battery
Close Odin
Open Odin
Put in battery
Hold both volume buttons (NO POWER) and plug in USB
Hopefully this gets you into download mode
Still Fail
I've been trying that, but without open/close of Odin.
Still failed when I added that step.
get to that screen again: hold volume up/down and power at the same time.
When the screen goes black, then release power button but keep holding down volume up/down
Zilch25 said:
Unplug your phone from USB
Pull battery
Close Odin
Open Odin
Put in battery
Hold both volume buttons (NO POWER) and plug in USB
Hopefully this gets you into download mode
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Yes, and remember to keep the volume buttons pressed in while plugging in the USB... I always hold them in until the droid/caution sign comes up.
alabamaroping said:
I was trying to get 2.2 on my captivate. It got hung and after about an hour, I powered down phone (battery out).
I'm now getting [phone... (!).. COMPUTER] picture
Trying to get back to stock ROM 2.1, but I cannot get device in download mode
I had to use adb to get in download mode originally.
Is it possible I got a phone that doesn't go into download mode based on button combinations? If so, what do I do?
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Try the methods prescribed. There are several minor variations but you may have a phone that doesn't do three button recovery. In order to tell, we need some history on your phone. What is the RF Cal date? Were you able to three button into download before? Do you know if it was one of the ones that had the three button problem?
autocorrelation,
I tried that with the usb cable plugged in and without it plugged in.
Still no good.
joeybear23,
I've been trying that all afternoon. Probably about 50 times.
ianwood,
How do I get the RF Cal date? I don't see it under the battery where the S/N is located. I tried to do 3 button recovery to put phone into download mode when trying to install 2.2, but it wouldn't work. I had to use "adb reboot download".
I've never tried it before today. The only issue I've had was that it could NEVER connect to AT&T server to check for an update.
can you get it into recovery mode?
no recovery
No. It won't go into recovery mode either.
The only thing it WILL do is respond to all 3 buttons being pressed by the black screen flash after about 8 seconds.
If you keep holding all 3 buttons will it flash again after the initial black screen? Try releasing the power button and keeping holding vol up/down after the second black screen.
If I keep holding all 3 buttons, it just keeps flashing.
Also tried to let it flash twice (and even more) and releasing power right when it goes to black 2nd (or 3rd) time. Also tried releasing power half way through black screen, and right before black screen re-appears and also just as the screen powers back up. None of them work.
I ran into this yesterday and about freaked out. Don't panic - apparently one of the guys had this happen to them a lot. Take a deep breath, have ODIN open, plug your USB cable in, hold the volume buttons down at the same time, press and hold the power button till you see the phone to computer, and let go. You should get to the download screen again. Good luck; sucks when something like that happens and you don't know what's going on.
I know this wont help much, but I have one of the no 3 button phones, and after 20 minutes of trying all these methods, it did go into d-load mode. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which combo I used since my brain went into overload when I finally saw the triangle appear. There is hope though, and please PLEASE post which one works for you(I'm afraid to mess with mine until I find a foolproof method)
I had a phone that wouldnt respond to ANY 3 button combo I tried. I bricked it (sorta on purpose) to the phone-!-computer screen and went and replaced the phone at AT&T (under the 30 day deal).
It didnt initially work with the 3-button but after the JH7 OTA DL mode and recovery mode work perfectly now. Also, GPS has been completely spot on when testing on my motorcycle with the phone in my backpack running my tracks.
If you are under the 30-day return policy, bring it in and come up with a good reason as to why they should give you a new phone. If not, then you're sorta SOL....
Zilch25 said:
Unplug your phone from USB
Pull battery
Close Odin
Open Odin
Put in battery
Hold both volume buttons (NO POWER) and plug in USB
Hopefully this gets you into download mode
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This method just saved my butt!!!
I have never had trouble getting into recovery or download mode until today when I did a dumb thing. The phone would lock at the ATT screen when trying to power on and if the phone was off and I plugged it in to charge it would freeze and the circle logo that comes up before the green charging battery does.
Every method of getting into download or recovery failed up till now.
Thanks Zilch!!!
Hey guys gonna move this to Q&A.
I had this problem a few days ago after updating to 2.2. I tried every single button/usb/battery combo and nothing worked. FORTUNATELY I was within 30 days of purchasing it (I guess there's a silver lining when diving right into "hacking"), and I brought it to the store with the box and receipt and just told them it gave me an error when turning it on (played dumb) and they swapped it out without even testing. If you're over the 30 days then I think you're pretty much SOL... gotta pay for a replacement.
bricked
I declared it to be bricked and took it back to the store. I have only had it 2 weeks, so I basically pulled the same move of playing dumb and they gave me another one without any problem.
I'm wanting to try to see if I can put it in recovery mode and/or download mode with the buttons without even attaching it to anything, but now I'm paranoid about bricking it.
itsjustaphone said:
I know this wont help much, but I have one of the no 3 button phones, and after 20 minutes of trying all these methods, it did go into d-load mode. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly which combo I used since my brain went into overload when I finally saw the triangle appear. There is hope though, and please PLEASE post which one works for you(I'm afraid to mess with mine until I find a foolproof method)
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Buddy, we need you to remember I'm in the exact position, no combo works and I bricked it after trying to load 2.2
Going into recovery or download will not brick it, its only everything after that point that might get you bricked.
Hello,
Hopefully I'm in the right place for posting something that seems to be this simple. The start of my problem is that the tablet will not stay off. When I try to shut it down, it shuts down normally, but then it starts to display the battery icons like it is plugged in and charging, but it is not connected to power. I can leave it in sleep mode and the charging thing will not happen, but turning it off displays the power charging screen and it further drains the battery. I figured something is screwy with the system so I would try to reset it to factory defaults. Now I have the other problem...
So I am trying to restore to factory defaults and I know to do this I have to start from off and hold down the up volume and the power button for a few seconds and as soon as the tablet starts to turn on release the power button but not the volume up button, and it should get me into the recovery/download screen. Unfortunately that is not working. I hold down the Volume up button and briefly hold the power button (3 or 4 sec or so) and I see the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 startup screen and let go of the power button (still holding the Volume up button). Next I see the spinning blue circle around the Samsung logo and the tablet reboots. I can release the volume up button at any time after that and the results are the same, it just reboots. It's like it isn't seeing the volume button.
I have tried using the volume Down button instead of the volume up button but that too is just like I am not pushing any volume button at all. Once the tablet is on, the volume buttons function normally, so the switches are good.
Since I got this tablet used could someone have loaded something onto it preventing it from being rebooted into recovery/download mode? Maybe some custom firmware or something. I'm at a loss as to where to go next. Since I can't boot into recovery/download mode I can't get into Odin.
Any help is appreciated.
Rick
Hi. The tablet isn't rooted, is it? Can you try to boot it into download or recovery with the "quick boot" app from google play?
I don't think it is rooted, but I can't tell for sure since I can't connect to the Google play store. I tried downloading using the web browser, but my battery dies before if finished. I'll try swapping batteries and see what I can figure out. Thanks for the idea.
Rick
No, the device is not rooted. it also is not charging and I had a heck of a time getting it to connect to the play store. I think I need to try and reload the OS, but without being able to get into ODIN, or reboot into recovery, I'm not sure how to proceed. any suggestions?
When the battery thing appears do the power- volume up thing and hold it until the gtab logo appears.
I've tried that, and it just boots up as if I wasn't holding the volume button at all. Once the tab is booted, the volume buttons work as normal. I've even tried putting a different power/Volume/IR unit in (from a working tab with a broken screen) and that didn't make a difference.
I left the tablet all weekend and it just keeps showing that it is charging when not plugged in. By Monday the battery was 100% dead. It won't even charge. If I replace the battery with a battery from a working unit I'b back in the same place where I can't get it to boot to Recovery/download.
The power button on my phone recently has stopped working. I need to get it warrantied, but I am running CM 10.2. I need to Odin back to stock, but I can not get into Download Mode or the recovery. When I go into Download mode, the initial screen pops up, the one where you choose to hit up to continue, or down to reboot normally. After I hit up, the screen goes black and nothing happens.
I really need to get back to stock, as Bestbuy are being dicks, and demanding I do a factory reset before they send my phone in.
Anything? I still need help on this.
Pompsy said:
Anything? I still need help on this.
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This has been covered at least 10 times in the past few months we need a sticky. Take your battery out hold your phone so the power button is facing a table or floor and slam that side a few times it should work again (Temporary). You might need to hit it on the surface really hard 10-20 times before it works. Just not to hard or else you might crack the screen. I used a mouse pad to soften the impact. This trick no longer works for me so I ripped the button off. After about a month of doing this I needed to use things that would only hit the button to make it work. About a month after that nothing worked so I just took it off the motherboard and now boot from a off state by plugging into the wall and enter odin mode deny the prompt and it kicks me into a workable state.
ThePagel said:
This has been covered at least 10 times in the past few months we need a sticky. Take your battery out hold your phone so the power button is facing a table or floor and slam that side a few times it should work again (Temporary). You might need to hit it on the surface really hard 10-20 times before it works. Just not to hard or else you might crack the screen. I used a mouse pad to soften the impact. This trick no longer works for me so I ripped the button off. After about a month of doing this I needed to use things that would only hit the button to make it work. About a month after that nothing worked so I just took it off the motherboard and now boot from a off state by plugging into the wall and enter odin mode deny the prompt and it kicks me into a workable state.
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I can get into the system just fine. When I go into the recovery or download mode, it doesn't stay in that mode. I tried the banging thing, and it made my power button go from intermittently working, to not working at all.
keep doing it until it works. The button is sticking that is why it reboots/stopped working.
Pompsy said:
I can get into the system just fine. When I go into the recovery or download mode, it doesn't stay in that mode. I tried the banging thing, and it made my power button go from intermittently working, to not working at all.
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It sounds like your power button is physically broken, and it is activating intermittently, which is stopping the phone from entering download mode. My only experience with this problem is my own phone but ultimately mine got so bad that I had to rip the button off the motherboard, as ThePagel did. Your symptoms sound the same as mine.
You can try this procedure to get into recovery, which works for me without a power button. You will probably have the same problem you are having now with the phone rebooting on its own before you actually get into recovery, because the power button is activating.
1. Take the battery out of the phone and unplug it from USB power.
2. Plug in USB power.
3. While holding down the volume-down button and the Home button, insert the battery (this is a little tricky).
4. The phone should start and warn you that you are entering Download mode. If you want to use Odin to return to stock, do that now.
5. If you want to get into Recovery instead, press Volume Down to reboot and then *immediately* push and hold Volume Up and Home simultaneously. The phone should reboot into recovery. Mine does.
If that doesn't work, and you can't get a new phone without returning it to stock, then prying the power button off the phone's motherboard may be your only solution.
Hi everybody!
I checked through all threads here about my problem, but could not find a solution.
One day ago the battery of my tab ASUS TF700 fully drained.
So I connected the tab to the charger and in some time tried to turn on it.
Nothing happened, it just started vibrating constantly.
The only method helped me stop vibration is hard reboot (power + volume).
When I hold only power button it stops vibrating for a second, make short vibration, again pause and then starts vibrating.
Connection to the monitor by HDMI didn't show anything.
I didn't do any updates right before this accident.
No root, no unlocks etc.
Please help me, I am desperately frustrated.
PS. there are some old trends with the similar problems, but without solutions.
goshechka said:
Hi everybody!
I checked through all threads here about my problem, but could not find a solution.
One day ago the battery of my tab ASUS TF700 fully drained.
So I connected the tab to the charger and in some time tried to turn on it.
Nothing happened, it just started vibrating constantly.
The only method helped me stop vibration is hard reboot (power + volume).
When I hold only power button it stops vibrating for a second, make short vibration, again pause and then starts vibrating.
Connection to the monitor by HDMI didn't show anything.
I didn't do any updates right before this accident.
No root, no unlocks etc.
Please help me, I am desperately frustrated.
PS. there are some old trends with the similar problems, but without solutions.
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Can you boot into the bootloader?
Push and hold Volume Down (left side of the rocker) and Power. The tab should vibrate twice, let go when you see tiny script and three icons.
Push Volume Up with the RCK icon flashing. If you get an Android falling over with an exclamamtion mark, you're good: your stock recovery is working.
You probably corrupted your system when you let the tablet crash in the middle of something. If the stock recovery is still working you can re-flash the firmware. Let me know if you can get there and I'll tell you how.
berndblb said:
Can you boot into the bootloader?
Push and hold Volume Down (left side of the rocker) and Power. The tab should vibrate twice, let go when you see tiny script and three icons.
Push Volume Up with the RCK icon flashing. If you get an Android falling over with an exclamamtion mark, you're good: your stock recovery is working.
You probably corrupted your system when you let the tablet crash in the middle of something. If the stock recovery is still working you can re-flash the firmware. Let me know if you can get there and I'll tell you how.
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Hi,berndblb!
Thanks for advise.
Unfortunately my asus doesn't stop vibrating when I push and hold Volume Down (left side of the rocker) and Power.
So there are two options:
1. If I push and hold Volume Down (left side of the rocker) and Power,
then it stops vibrating for a while, makes one short vibration and continues vibrating constantly without any interruptions.
2. If I push and hold Volume Up (right side of the rocker) and Power,
then it stops vibrating for a while, makes one short vibration and finanlly stops vibrating. One trick: I have to push and hold till the moment when the device makes one short vibration, and only after the moment when vibration stops finally I can release the buttons.
That is all I managed to discover pushing and holding buttons.
Sorry friend, I think your tablet is hosed....
Pushing Power and Volume Up (right side of the rocker) should get you into APX mode, which is usually the last thing working if everything else is messed up.
But even if you get to APX - it's useless unless your tablelt is unlocked and you previously created your device specific nvflash blobs.
I'm afraid a new main board is your only option....
berndblb said:
Sorry friend, I think your tablet is hosed....
Pushing Power and Volume Up (right side of the rocker) should get you into APX mode, which is usually the last thing working if everything else is messed up.
But even if you get to APX - it's useless unless your tablelt is unlocked and you previously created your device specific nvflash blobs.
I'm afraid a new main board is your only option....
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I have finally won
The solution was simple:
1. I let the tablet vibrating till the battery totally discharged (it took the whole night).
2. Vibration of course stopped.
3. I charged the battery a little and switched on the tablet.
4. Tablet launched in normal regime, all data and system were saved, even after I tried to make a hard reset (I suspect it didn't work out).
After that it only once rebooted without any reason, but that's all.
So several days passed, the tablet works without any problems.
goshechka said:
I have finally won
The solution was simple:
1. I let the tablet vibrating till the battery totally discharged (it took the whole night).
2. Vibration of course stopped.
3. I charged the battery a little and switched on the tablet.
4. Tablet launched in normal regime, all data and system were saved, even after I tried to make a hard reset (I suspect it didn't work out).
After that it only once rebooted without any reason, but that's all.
So several days passed, the tablet works without any problems.
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It is good to hear that you have your tf700 back....:good: Thanks for the report back...
BTW, are you going to unlock your device and generate the Nvflash blobs? If it occurred once, It could come back again and hope for lucks again...:laugh: Just my two cents..
Hello,
I flashed the latest LRX22C image on my nexus 5 today.Had flashed it clean,wiping data,cache and system etc except the Internal Storage.Then I flashed the SUPERSU 2.37 ZIP .Everything was fine for about 4 hours.Then suddenly when I pressed the power button to turn the screen off,it was not turning off and the "Switch off" mode was popping up instead .Then, when I got a call,it switched off.The phone won't turn on again.It starts,the Google Boot Splash appears and the bootanimation starts for like 2 seconds and it switches off.Same thing for bootloader mode.
Please Help me!
EDIT: Now its turning on by itself and switches off in 2 seconds!
Sounds like a bad power switch to me, but of course that is just my opinion. :good:
sounds like a mech issue.
legit isue
I have the same problem on mine now... Basically my phone powered down around 45%. Battery. At the time i thought it was dead... But it wasnt. When i would plug into external power, either usb or through wireless charging it would power cycle continuously at the android splash screen.... (1 to 2 second intervals - even if i booted into fastboot) Interestingly it would never go to the battery charging mode. But automatically boot on charge... It did this for about 6 hours then i gave up and left it unplugged for a day. I plugged it back in and it started power cycling again, however this time on its third boot it came back to life . thats when i discovered i still had 40% battery... I dont know what exactly made it boot but it did. Oddly also on boot, it started optimising apps and finishing install again. I checked the md5 before I installed the update so no issue there. Since it powered up i have powered the phone off using the power button long push and let the phone power down. After doing this when i plug the phone in to usb charge it goes to the charge screen. No issue. That said, if i try to power up while tethered and charging it will not allow it. It just stays at the charge screen. As soon as i unplug the usb the power button allows the phone to power up and work... When booted up it charges as normal when plugged in. Im convinced there is an issue with the power management drivers or drivers for the button controls. My phone worked fine until the 5.0.1 update was installed. On my nexus 5. Anyone else or just us two? Ive had a hard time finding people posting on this issue.