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I have a rooted stock phone that stopped working for no apparent reason (no new ROM flashed, no configuration change). It starts, shows the Samsung logo, and immediately reboots. I tried to put it in download mode, when i hold the 3 keys I see the download logo showing up, but it reboots after a few seconds anyway. after a while it will start looping through the battery charge screen (which shows the battery as empty). I tried 2 different batteries with no change. Any idea how to get something working again?
That almost sounds like some sort of power issue. Have you left it sit turned off until the battery was full?
Yes, I left it overnight and it just keeps flashing the battery screen and then resets. I also have an external charger and used it to charge the battery, so it's not an issue with the battery actually being empty.
Have you been able to get the phone into download mode previously?
Have you have dealt with a boot loop and performed an Odin recovery previously? If not, remember it can take a few tries to get download mode to pop up.
If you can't get Odin to go, you might try flashing with Kies.
I am wondering if your phone met with some kind of disaster when you weren't around (trauma or liquid).
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I have a rooted stock phone that stopped working for no apparent reason (no new ROM flashed, no configuration change). It starts, shows the Samsung logo, and immediately reboots. I tried to put it in download mode, when i hold the 3 keys I see the download logo showing up, but it reboots after a few seconds anyway. after a while it will start looping through the battery charge screen (which shows the battery as empty). I tried 2 different batteries with no change. Any idea how to get something working again?
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This sounds almost exactly like the problem I had with my Sidekick. In my case, it turned out to be a bad battery and a loose ribbon cable on the motherboard. I'd check those two things.
This happened to me as well, and the three-button method to get into download mode wasn't working. For some odd reason, for me to get into download mode all I have to do is hold down the power button + track pad, and it goes right into download mode... Maybe slightly different model?
Try that - power button + trackpad
Bootloops.
Not a guaranteed fix by any means but for troubleshooting purposes you may want to consider making a USB JIG. It will most definitely help you figure out just how serious the problem is and if it IS software related with a way to get it working again you will need the JIG anyway so its worth a shot. If nothing else you learn a new skill and you're the proud owner of an incredibly useful tool that you can say you made yourself. good luck!
I know this post is kind of old, but it just happened to me last week (same circumstance, a rooted phone, but stock). I ended up just pulling the battery out and pressing the power button a couple times to hopefully drian it and letting it sit for 15 minutes, and then I put the battery back in and it worked again. I now have another rom flashed on it, I hate stock.
I know this forum is ancient, but I'm working on an E-Bay phone with this exact issue. I found the following thread the most useful and informative on the problem:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996709
Hopefully this helps other.
what i did was hold the power volume and button between the menu n back with the left hand YES HOLD IT UNTILL THE PIT IS UPLOADED. then u can let go then slide in the vattery with the right.while checking off the flash bootloarders on the heimdall with it fixing my phone XD
I had this happen, I dissassembled the phone, and used an alcohol pad to clean the power button area, and manipulated the button a lot, let it dry, reassembled...it still bootlooped.
BELOW IS RISKY BUT WORKED FOR ME
So while the back cover was off (exposing the cicuit board but everything still connected) I inserted the battery and watched it boot loop...during this, I used a flathead screw driver to "short" the power button pins...this let it boot fully, and it has been fine since.
i smacked the phones power button a few times and it worked
Im trying to explain everything to prevent unneeded questions
I have viewed several threads about this but absolutely none with an answer. My Samsung Infuse 4g with at&t (nonrooted) is in a bootloop. The cause of this was my every-other-day reboot. Once I turned it back on it goes to the samsung screen for about 5 secs, then goes black, then says samsung again and so on repeatedly. I pull the battery and as soon as it makes contact back with the phone it turns on by itself into the same Samsung screen over and over. When plugged into wall or computer it will show the charge screen where there is no battery life left, then it will flash and start up the charge screen again and so on just like the samsung screen. I cannot go into download mode (the buttons, at this point, do nothing. No response)
I have tried taking the battery out and plugging in usb cable to computer, then holding both volumes and putting battery in=charging loop
↑ with volume up=charging loop
↑↑ with volume down=charging loop
computer doesnt detect it, adb cant find it, cannot go into download mode, odin cant see it, heimdall cant see it, cant actually boot into anything, cant leave battery in or else phone will restart itself the entire time, and this was caused by my (already gbread) infuse 4g doing a regular reboot (aka power button, tap power off, after phone is confirmed off take battery out, battery back in, turn on)
Recommendations at this point? on a scale from 1=noob to 10=expert im a 7 on this type of thing. Ive always heard that as long as you can boot into a picture its only soft bricked but if i was right i wouldnt be here. Any and all help would be much appreciated. If you need me to post a video I would have NO problem doing that showing everything im doing.
oh, and by I have viewed several threads about this i meant that i have only been able to find 1 thread about it and 2 links that didnt work for me but might for you
link that worked- http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1354731.html
links that did not-
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ih1Zf_BvtcIbJXGEw&sig2=jjOcukFWr9sPWJZH1rlhnA
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...ih1Zf_BvtcIbJXGEw&sig2=SZeMzIF2hnjdkk6GPDkovg
You might have already tried this way, but I've always held down both volume buttons first before plugging in the USB cord - not the other way around. You can also try different cords, different USB ports and/or different computers.
Mine was doing this the other day and it turned out to be my SD card being flaky. Maybe try taking it out and booting?
Radiotsar said:
You might have already tried this way, but I've always held down both volume buttons first before plugging in the USB cord - not the other way around. You can also try different cords, different USB ports and/or different computers.
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Ive tried a hp touchpad cord, an atrix cord, and the original cord. I cant really do the button combo because as soon as the battery makes contact the phone turns on. thats why i had the usb cord in first to see if it worked. ive tried every usb port and 2 different laptops, the computer wont recognize it if the phone wont go past the samsung start up screen
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Mine was doing this the other day and it turned out to be my SD card being flaky. Maybe try taking it out and booting?
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I've taken the card out and used a different card, nothing. Tried taking sim card out, nothing.
I should have been clearer. Leave the battery out of the process until after attaching the cord and the screen coming up.
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Radiotsar said:
I should have been clearer. Leave the battery out of the process until after attaching the cord and the screen coming up.
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I do, every time.
1. battery out
2. hold down volume buttons (any combo)
3. attach cord (nothing happens, no screen, nothing)
4. put battery in
Results= Charging loop
lifetaker said:
I do, every time.
1. battery out
2. hold down volume buttons (any combo)
3. attach cord (nothing happens, no screen, nothing)
4. put battery in
Results= Charging loop
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should be the same...wonder if you battery needs to be charged first, it should be fully charged at best...to do any flash/Odin/one click
this how I do it...basicly the same..
>take batt out
>plug in usb cable...to both phone and computer
>hold both volume buttons...NO NOT HOLD THE POWER BUTTON....
>put batt in...
and bam should see the android dude shoveling in yellow triangle...
If you get no response from the usb without the battery, and inserting the battery indicates the battery needs charging - I'd suspect the phone's usb port. Especially after trying different cords & computers.
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Sorry for the sometimes choppy video recording.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWKdGS_5_Ps&feature=youtu.be
Have you tried a jig you can buy them on ebay for 6-12 bucks or you can donate one of you old cables and make it your self..
http://galaxys2root.com/galaxy-s2-hacks/how-to-make-a-usb-jig-for-your-galaxy-s2/
this will/should get you into download mode
Hello.
I have the same problem... tried also everything now i gave it to cellphone shop, i hope you guys can give me answer before i am gonna waist $100
HELP?1
Help me please
I was in this state. There are two options I can think of. A JIG as mentioned previously or the Heimdall One-Click-Unbrick. The one-click unbrick did it for me and got me back to cmw and download mode, then i could flash to stock, root and flash up to ICS. It was really easy and I stopped sweating once it booted to cmw instantly after running it.
Joe
hello.
The problem is when i connect it to my computer its keep disconnecting and doing terreble noise, (windows noise) when you keep connecting and disconnecting USB cable
JIG DIDNT WORK, because the same problem.... maybe the chargging connect is broken? or has a corrosion?
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Sounds/Looks like a hardware issue...
Did it get any water damage in the past?
Hope you got warranty or still under warranty.
I am having exactly the same problem. My Infuse has never been rooted or unlocked (quite ironically, I was about to root it for the first time).
Boot loop when not plugged in, charge loop when plugged in. Absolutely no combination of buttons, inserting/removing the battery, and/or plugging/unplugging the USB has gotten it to do anything.
This has happened several times over the past few days. The first few times it sorted itself out in an hour or two. Today I couldn't get it to do anything at all.
I found several posts by people who have this problem, and it has never been conclusively solved from what I've seen. Finally one person said they fixed it by lightly smacking the phone with their hand. Lo and behold, it came on for about 5 minutes before looping again. So I smacked it again, and before it could re-loop, I factory reset it. A few hours went by and I was convinced that it was fixed.
A few minutes ago I had it plugged in to my computer via USB and was getting ready to SuperOneClick it. Then it went back into loop. I can't get it to come on this time. Again, no combination of buttons will send it into download mode. The computer can't see it. The battery is charged. The USB cable and port are fine. The software was reset earlier today. Does this mean that I have a hardware problem, or is there a software issue that could be fixable?
EDIT: So I decided to try hitting the power button, something that had never worked to this point, and the device came on. A couple minutes later it went back to boot loop. On a whim I tried download mode, which had stubbornly refused to work all day. Of course it immediately worked. Not really knowing what to try, since I'd already wiped user data, I wiped cache data and formatted the internal SD. Then I told it to reboot. Back to boot loop. A few minutes later, it came back on with the power button. Two minutes later, boot loop again. Then it restarted of its own accord. And now back to boot loop. I just don't even know anymore.
EDIT2: Just a thought... Something is weird with the power button. Whenever the phone is on and I hit power (briefly, not holding it down), it goes to the shutdown menu as though I'd held it down. A few seconds later, I'm always back in boot loop.
Infuse loop
I have found the problem. It is, in my case, the power button. I removed the case and crossed terminals with a paperclip. BAM. Booted up, and when I removed the paper clip.... back to boot loop at Samsung logo.
There is a place to send the phone. Ive see great reviews.
mobiletechvideos.mybigcommerce.com/samsung-infuse-4g-power-button-repair/
Seems like there has been a string of power button malfunctions going around lately. There are a few threads going on where people have had this issue. Sometimes its just the terminals needing to be cleaned or dust blown out.
Hello.
I have searched the forums about my issue, and although there are a lot of threads about phones rebooting, there was none about such exact problem as I am experiencing. I apologize if I missed a thread which tackled this problem.
Symptoms:
1. my galaxy S 4G reboots about every 3 seconds: it only gets to the very first "Samsung Galaxy S 4G T-mobile" logo, and reboot
2. it is possible to access boot menu (volume up+down), but only for a split second, and phone reboots again
3. rebooting starts as soon as in put battery in, no need to even press the power button
All that started by itself yesterday. I thought it was a mechanical fault with power switch, I opened the phone, unscrewed covers, cleaned everything, but found no mechanical issue. I switched batteries, tried starting the phone of plugged-in charger, on usb cable, took out sd card, sim card, put a different sim card in... and nothing helped.
Phone runs on Gingerbread 2.3, stock by T-mobile, never had any other roms on it. Device is rooted.
If anyone has an idea how to approach this issue, please let me know. Or reply with a link to somewhere I can read more. I was not able to find much on this...
Thank you!
Malarz
The phone sometimes does a reboot loop if u take the battery out of the phone without turning the power off. Just keep trying to turn it on, and eventually it would reboot properly. Take the battery out of the phone for a few minutes, put it back and try to turn it on again. Do this a few times to see if it boot back properly.
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gizmoscoop said:
The phone sometimes does a reboot loop if u take the battery out of the phone without turning the power off. Just keep trying to turn it on, and eventually it would reboot properly. Take the battery out of the phone for a few minutes, put it back and try to turn it on again. Do this a few times to see if it boot back properly.
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Thank you for a prompt reply!
I did take out battery for a long time, well over one hour, and took out sim card and sd card as well. Unfortunately reboot loop started immediately when I placed battery back in the phone. That's what made me think it was a mechanical issue with power button.
I will try keeping battery out a few times again today.
One other thing: the phone had been in hot and humid environment for about 30 minutes before this happened. Not the first time for this phone to experience high humidity, though. However, I did not find any moisture inside the unit.
Malarz
I had this happened to my phone. Just wait it out and keep trying to reboot, it will come around. Take the battery out and put it back on. Keep on repeating this step.
Also, when the phone is on, try to hold the volume - + and power button at the same time to see if u can get into boot mode.
Also u can use hair blow dryer to blow dry area around the power button.
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Or, batt is dead...
You have a stuck power button. Take apart the phone and clean the power bottom with compressed air. Then rapidly push the button in and out for a while.
Resolution:
I took the phone apart, and checked the power button (which had been my first guess), and was seemingly all right.
The battery was also not the issue, as I tried 3 different batteries.
Having no other choice, I put the battery back in, and let the phone happily reboot at its own leisure. After over 20 reboots, the system came on. Then a few minutes later the device rebooted again, and the loop started all over. After a while it booted up again. This time I did not wait for the device to reboot by itself, and I switched the phone off with power button, and then turned back on, and it booted normally. Repeated this once more - normal boot again. One more power off, and I entered the boot menu and did factory reset. Once the stock reinstalled, everything would work perfectly - no more issues with boot loop.
So it seems to me as a software problem more than anything else.
Side note: for the last several weeks the phone displayed strange behavior, that is the screen would light up for no reason by itself, and quickly go off. Sometimes it happened once every few minutes, sometimes it happened several times a minute. Did it have anything to do with the boot loop? No idea. But it strengthens my hunch about a software issue, as that behavior also went away after factory reset.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but since I have not found a similar case anywhere in the forums, I though someone might find this interesting. I do not deal with phones except as a user, but some of you guys do it maybe professionally, so maybe this will be a curious puzzle for you to solve.
Malarz
It sounds like Gremlins....
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Do you have notifications set up? It could notify that u have incoming messages such as a text or an email.
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Malarz said:
Resolution:
I took the phone apart, and checked the power button (which had been my first guess), and was seemingly all right.
The battery was also not the issue, as I tried 3 different batteries.
Having no other choice, I put the battery back in, and let the phone happily reboot at its own leisure. After over 20 reboots, the system came on. Then a few minutes later the device rebooted again, and the loop started all over. After a while it booted up again. This time I did not wait for the device to reboot by itself, and I switched the phone off with power button, and then turned back on, and it booted normally. Repeated this once more - normal boot again. One more power off, and I entered the boot menu and did factory reset. Once the stock reinstalled, everything would work perfectly - no more issues with boot loop.
So it seems to me as a software problem more than anything else.
Side note: for the last several weeks the phone displayed strange behavior, that is the screen would light up for no reason by itself, and quickly go off. Sometimes it happened once every few minutes, sometimes it happened several times a minute. Did it have anything to do with the boot loop? No idea. But it strengthens my hunch about a software issue, as that behavior also went away after factory reset.
Sorry for the lengthy post, but since I have not found a similar case anywhere in the forums, I though someone might find this interesting. I do not deal with phones except as a user, but some of you guys do it maybe professionally, so maybe this will be a curious puzzle for you to solve.
Malarz
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Hardware not software. You had a stuck power button. By forcing the reboot with the power button you unstuck it. If you don't believe it research Occam's razor. Glad you got it fixed(unstuck) though.:victory:
EDIT: Here are some other people who have had the same issue on samsung phones.
Stuck power button
Stuck power button
Stuck power button
If you need any more let me know. lol
This is going to be a long question/story thanks for your patience!
Whenever i try to reboot my phone, regardless of method, it takes an elaborate set of actions (elaborate as in it requires a power cord, a complex series of button presses, chanting, chicken blood, etc...) for the phone to turn back on.
I'm going to include a lot of details, relevant or not, i cannot decide.
I was using SlimBean Build 7 for weeks. I was able to reboot normally. I had heard about an app, WifiKill, installed it, caused short lived havoc at work, no issues so far. A few hours later, I attempted to tether my laptop using the hotspot function (something I've done many times before with no problem). The wifi turned off immediately and would not come back on. My exact thought was "Huh, that's weird" and attempted to reboot the phone, it seemed to shut off normally but did not come back on. At this point i believe the battery was at 60% or close to it.
No matter how I tried the phone would not power back on.
I charged the phone over night, and it actually came back on. Of course the first thing I tried to do was reboot the phone. Same result.
Now the phone is still not starting when turn off or rebooted with the power button command, it will not reboot when done with adb, it will not reboot when I try within the recovery. Any of these things cause the phone to act as if "hard bricked" with no response from any of the buttons or screen.
My first thought was to flash a stock rom with odin, when i plugged it into my PC (windows 7 ultimate 64bit) it asked for QHSUSB_DLOAD drivers. I tracked those down and installed them of course they did not work for odin.
I ordered but have not received a download mode jig.
I thought maybe it had to do with the act of charging the phone that sparked the brief show of life so i drained my battery using another phone and then charged it in the skyrocket for two days. Battery at 100% at this point.
At this point, I've discovered that if I hold the power button long enough while plugged in the phone will vibrate over and over until the button is released and by accident I learned that if i unplug the phone wile doing it's little vibro-trance it will start normally.
If I try to reboot the phone with any of the methods I listed above, I have to pull the battery, wait 10 minutes, plug in a power cord (not connected to a computer) hold the vol+ and vol- and power buttons, wait till it starts buzzing and insert the battery, if the charging icon appears the phone will power on, if not, I have to start again.
Once I learned that trick I was able to boot the phone into download mode and flashed back to stock JB and twrp.
I have since flashed slimbean build 8 and twrp 2.6.0.0. The phone is working fine but I don't have the guts to attempt WifiKill, tethering or reboot.
If you're still with me, good on you. I think the universe is mad at me for messing with people's wifi connection.
Anybody got any ideas?
THANK YOU!!!
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Anybody got any ideas?
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Yeah, I'm guessing that wifi kill app had something to do with it. I've tethered on slim bean 7 & 8, so I doubt it has anything to do with that or the ROM. Is say it's like you said, karma rearing its ugly head for playing wifi gatekeeper on unsuspecting individuals
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Hi,
I think I have bricked my S7.
Yesterday I installed Superman Rom and everything was working fine until this afternoon.
I played a bit around and somehow my S7 got stuck and it seemed like i messed something up. I was in some kind of bootloop so i flashed everything new -Bootlaoder, Modem and Superman Rom.
Now I have a black screen and the LED is light up in blue.
I can't do anything. Tried to restart with Home Vol- and Power key but it doesn't work.
If I connect it to the Computer it won't be recognized.
Strange thing is, if I press the Power Key the computer recognizes Exynos8890 in the device manager, but only if I keep pressing the power key.
As soon as I release the power key the computer recognizes nothing...
Does anyone have an idea?
Try holding Volume Down & Home & Power until the phone reboots twice, keep the buttons pressed for 2 full reboots, and hopefully the 2nd one will get you back into download mode
Thank you for your help!
I tried that but it doesn't work.
It's strange because I can do what I want and nothing happens.
Black screen and blue light. It doens't even turn off or reboot...
Only thing what happens is that exynos8890 appears in the device manager as long as I keep pressing the power button.
Same problem as me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/help/boot-loop-bricked-t3499109/post69596073#post69596073
Sounds different.
Because you are able to get into recovery and download. I'm not able to do that
alexx3333 said:
Sounds different.
Because you are able to get into recovery and download. I'm not able to do that
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How long are you holding the button combination for?
Try 30 seconds+
I tried for several minutes, but the phone doesn't do anything.
I can only think you'll need to wait until the battery runs out, the phone shuts off, then when you charge it again, try the download mode button combo when you power it back on
Ok thank you.
I thought the same.
Unfortunately the battery was at 90% so I think it will take a few days/weeks until it dies...
alexx3333 said:
Ok thank you.
I thought the same.
Unfortunately the battery was at 90% so I think it will take a few days/weeks until it dies...
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Connect the white Micro > Normal USB adapter that came with the phone to the MicroUSB port, and connect a power hungry USB device to it, I just tried with a USB desk fan and the phone powered it on spinning
That will drain the battery quickly
Great idea but it doesn't seem to work.
Looks like I have no power in the USB connection.
Seems like the phone is totaly frozen.
Ok so how it looks at the moment, my only choiches are wait several days until the battery dies (don't know how long this will take) or sending it to Samsung for a repair.
Thank you for your help!
Good luck, if I think of anything else I'll reply here, hope you get it sorted
EDIT - Did you try holding the power button while you had the USB device connected, to see if it provides USB power then?
Wow, the exact same thing literally happened to me yesterday.
I wasn't doing anything to the phone - it's completely stock and unrooted, and I wasn't messing with anything. At the time it happened, I scrolling through the task switcher when all of the screenshots of running apps suddenly became white squares. I tried pressing the home button but it didn't respond (though I could still scroll fluidly through the white squares). A few seconds later the screen went black and that was it. Dead dead dead. Totally bricked. The only response I can get is "Exynos8890" in the Device Manager when holding the power button, just like you.
This really sucks because I paid full cash and imported an international version, so I have no warranty. I'm off to the Samsung store to plead with them about honoring the warranty anyway, maybe if I offer some cash on top.
I suspect the storage chip failed. Yesterday before it died, I was downloading all of my images off of the SD card to organize them, and I noticed that about 5% of them failed to copy due to an unknown I/O error. Of course I assumed this was a corrupt SD card, not internal storage. I did manage to pull them all off (though some were damaged) through a combination of adb shell, dd, and adb pull. During the process the phone hard-locked a few times, but each time I was able to reboot via the VolDown+Power combo.
When the phone finally died for good, it was several hours after I had finished copying the photos and since hte last reboot. It had been working perfectly since then - I was browsing reddit, watching netflix, etc. However, given that I got the white squares in the task switcher right before it kicked the bucket, I think the internal storage was actually to blame, not the SD card. The white squares indicates that it was trying to fetch the screenshots off the disk and failing.
It's very odd that I cannot find any other instance of this kind of failure on the internet except this one thread, which happened on the exact same day that my phone died. Very strange.
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Good luck, if I think of anything else I'll reply here, hope you get it sorted
EDIT - Did you try holding the power button while you had the USB device connected, to see if it provides USB power then?
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Yes I have tried that but no power at all...
stoanhart said:
Wow, the exact same thing literally happened to me yesterday.
I wasn't doing anything to the phone - it's completely stock and unrooted, and I wasn't messing with anything. At the time it happened, I scrolling through the task switcher when all of the screenshots of running apps suddenly became white squares. I tried pressing the home button but it didn't respond (though I could still scroll fluidly through the white squares). A few seconds later the screen went black and that was it. Dead dead dead. Totally bricked. The only response I can get is "Exynos8890" in the Device Manager when holding the power button, just like you.
This really sucks because I paid full cash and imported an international version, so I have no warranty. I'm off to the Samsung store to plead with them about honoring the warranty anyway, maybe if I offer some cash on top.
I suspect the storage chip failed. Yesterday before it died, I was downloading all of my images off of the SD card to organize them, and I noticed that about 5% of them failed to copy due to an unknown I/O error. Of course I assumed this was a corrupt SD card, not internal storage. I did manage to pull them all off (though some were damaged) through a combination of adb shell, dd, and adb pull. During the process the phone hard-locked a few times, but each time I was able to reboot via the VolDown+Power combo.
When the phone finally died for good, it was several hours after I had finished copying the photos and since hte last reboot. It had been working perfectly since then - I was browsing reddit, watching netflix, etc. However, given that I got the white squares in the task switcher right before it kicked the bucket, I think the internal storage was actually to blame, not the SD card. The white squares indicates that it was trying to fetch the screenshots off the disk and failing.
It's very odd that I cannot find any other instance of this kind of failure on the internet except this one thread, which happened on the exact same day that my phone died. Very strange.
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That sounds exactly like my Problem.
A faulty storage chip would also explain my Problems before the phone died for good.
The day my phone died I had some Problems. The phone was frozen from time to time until it got into the bootloop, but I thought I messed something up in the Rom because I did a lot of testing and the Combo also did work.
After reflashing the Rom everything seemed to be fine first until it died for good.
Yes it's strange, I also didn't find anything similar on the Internet.
I have learned my phone is from Nigeria. This should be a fun RMA process. FML
stoanhart said:
I have learned my phone is from Nigeria. This should be a fun RMA process. FML
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Contact Samsung on twitter, unlikely they'll force you to RMA to Nigeria, they'll have service centres in your region
I managed to get Samsung Canada to refer me to a local service center. I drove 1.5 hours to go there today, the dude plugs it into a charger, and the damn thing just lights up like nothing ever happened. Now it's working fine, but I swear this thing was fully bricked before. The battery still had 73% charge when it came back alive...
I'm happy it's working now, but I'm worried it's just going to crap out again at any time.
Update: after the phone revived itself, it worked pretty well for a week. It locked up a few times, but I was able to reboot each time.
But, after a week, it hard-froze again. This time, it happened to be on charge while it froze so the green LED was on. It's been completely unresponsive for 2.5 weeks now, off charger, with the green LED on. I keep waiting for the LED to drain the battery, but it's taking forever. I'm losing hope that it will recover this time. I guess I'll re-start the process of getting in touch with Samsung, or alternatively, look for a replacement motherboard on eBay.
Does anyone know if the G930F motherboard fits into the G930FD body? I don't actually care about dual sim, but I'm concerned the SIM tray/slot won't work with the G930F motherboard.
Update:
so in the meantime the battery of my s7 died but that didn't change anything. I wasn't able to charge it after that so now it was completely dead.
So I contacted Sasmsung.
They replaced the motherboard and the USB connector on warranty.
Seems like it really was a hardware issue...
alexx3333 said:
Update:
so in the meantime the battery of my s7 died but that didn't change anything. I wasn't able to charge it after that so now it was completely dead.
So I contacted Sasmsung.
They replaced the motherboard and the USB connector on warranty.
Seems like it really was a hardware issue...
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Hi,
Do you need Proof of Purchase for the warranty?
Thanks.