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!S.O.S! Raphael died on me all the sudden! WTF!?*SOLVED*

Today I noticed, while having my phone in a pocket, that it vibrates. Thought it was an sms or something but after I pulled it out, the screen was black. And kept on restarting itself in like 10 second intervals. Then the screen got stuck black with backlight on. Now I cannot power it on. It does it by itself randomly. No way to enter bootloader. After pressing hard buttons I randomly get a vibration feedback. Tried 2 different batteries. If I plug the charger in, no light comes up. After maybe 20 minutes on charger it gets warm (not where the battery is but above where the radio is).
Anyone ever seen this before? Any ideas would be more than greatly appreciated!!!!

bauerpavel said:
Today I noticed, while having my phone in a pocket, that it vibrates. Thought it was an sms or something but after I pulled it out, the screen was black. And kept on restarting itself in like 10 second intervals. Then the screen got stuck black with backlight on. Now I cannot power it on. It does it by itself randomly. No way to enter bootloader. After pressing hard buttons I randomly get a vibration feedback. Tried 2 different batteries. If I plug the charger in, no light comes up. After maybe 20 minutes on charger it gets warm (not where the battery is but above where the radio is).
Anyone ever seen this before? Any ideas would be more than greatly appreciated!!!!
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Try this,
Turn off phone, push volume down and plug in the usb cable to your computer, don't turn it on, if the hardware is ok, tricolor should appear.

Daniehabazin said:
Try this,
Turn off phone, push volume down and plug in the usb cable to your computer, don't turn it on, if the hardware is ok, tricolor should appear.
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Thanx for the tip. My phone, however, resurrected by itself in the middle of night after it did hard reset by itself. So I used raphdiag and reloaded new rom. Hope to never see this again!

Hmm. Major Issue Need expert help!

Hi all. I have years of rooting under my belt but this is the first Samsung phone i've owned and I've got quite an issue. I was playing a game and the phone just shut off on me. I went to restart it and nothing. Did a battery pull, i felt it vibrate like it was trying to turn on and still nothing. So I tried to boot into cwm using volume up/down and power and the Samsung splash screen flashes for a split second and then shuts off and the phone just vibrates like it's going to turn on but won't do it.
So I tried battery pulls, holding power down, and now when I plug it into the computer it vibrates every two seconds but won't turn on. What's the deal this seems like a major hardware malfunction and Odin/CWM none of that stuff is usable because it just won't boot into anything.
So last resort do you guys have any suggestions i'm all ears :-(

I've had this a few times before... I forget which one exactly but either vol up + power button...or vol down + power button gets you to download mode and then you can flash the softbrick fix.
or if you do manage to get to CWM, you'll need some quick fingers to get to the "install zip" option before it reboots. once in there you're good to flash your ROM.
or, get a USB jig to get to download mode and flash soft brick fix.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using XDA App

NO dload mode either? if not make sure you have charged battery and than try to get into dload mode.
2leaponover1 said:
Hi all. I have years of rooting under my belt but this is the first Samsung phone i've owned and I've got quite an issue. I was playing a game and the phone just shut off on me. I went to restart it and nothing. Did a battery pull, i felt it vibrate like it was trying to turn on and still nothing. So I tried to boot into cwm using volume up/down and power and the Samsung splash screen flashes for a split second and then shuts off and the phone just vibrates like it's going to turn on but won't do it.
So I tried battery pulls, holding power down, and now when I plug it into the computer it vibrates every two seconds but won't turn on. What's the deal this seems like a major hardware malfunction and Odin/CWM none of that stuff is usable because it just won't boot into anything.
So last resort do you guys have any suggestions i'm all ears :-(
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False alarm, apparently there is a battery bug reported on other forums. My phone had read 100% for quite awhile and I was digging the battery life but apparently i was over zealous. The meter was reading 100% but the battery was draining and the phone died. It wouldn't fire up until i left it on the charger for awhile. Very odd, guess I will delete this post and research this battery issue... unless someone else knows more about it

I have the same battery issue, but only when I use my car charger. When I take it off the car charger, it will read 100% till I reboot. Only after reboot will it start reading the battery state correctly. I DO NOT have this issue with the house charger...... Strange.

you guys after charging for 100% go to cwm and format battery status this will probably resolve ur issue.

[FIX][SOLVED][URGENT] I fell asleep while doing a nandroid, now it is dead.

I fell asleep while making a backup in TWERP. now it won't start AT ALL. It doesn't even go to any sort of screen at all. Black screen. Completely. It will bibrate if I hold the power, but it just keeps doing that. As long as I hold the power, it vibrates after a few seconds like it normally does, but over and over and over. Plugging in a charge cable does the same thing. I cannot load into anything. Am I screwed?

Did you try battery pulling and then going to download mode?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

The phone can be very retarded when the battery goes completely dead. Did you try pluggin it in and leaving it for like a hour? Then try and boot into recovery and reboot from there.

x714x said:
The phone can be very retarded when the battery goes completely dead. Did you try pluggin it in and leaving it for like a hour? Then try and boot into recovery and reboot from there.
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All it does is vibrate constantly when I plug it in... But I will try this. Interesting note: If I pull the battery THEN plug it in, it vibrates after having a red light notification, which disappears. Furthermore, if I put the battery in after it disappears, it turns red and stays that way.

It is fixed, here is how for any future visitors to this thread!
Alright! I fixed it! It's back into Paranoid Android . Anyway, here is how. I plugged it in for a few minutes (about 5) then, I read a thing on how I may be able to get it into ODIN. So, here's how. Unplug it, take out the sim and microSD, and take out the battery. Leave it alone for 2 minutes, then pick it up and BEFORE YOU INSERT THE BATTERY hold down power, home, and volume down. Then, insert the battery, keep holding those down until it vibrates. When it vibrates, let go of power, keep the other two held. When it goes into the warning screen, choose to reboot the phone and let it reboot. Now charge that sucker!
x714x: The phone can be very retarded when the battery goes completely dead. Did you try pluggin it in and leaving it for like a hour? Then try and boot into recovery and reboot from there.
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That cannot be said better, and I think it should be more visible on the internet for anyone who wants to know, that this phone DOES IN FACT become very stupid when it goes completely dead. If it weren't for that simple statement, I probably would have taken it to Verizon and been made a fool. Thank you x714x!

You are welcome sir.

Moto G turning off itself

It's a long history.
One day, my Moto G stop charging. He charge until 1%, then turn itself on, and when it was on, it wasn't charging. I thought that was a OS/software problem, but nothing was sloving. I send to warranty and there they send me back saying that a piece was oxidated and was my fault, so they can't help me. When the cellphone arrive back, it was charging normaly. I really doesn't understand. But my PC wasn't showing the smartphone when plugged in the USB port. I started to use AirDroid.
I have a little struggle to update to Android 4.4.2 but I did it. The smartphone was really weird, but I let it go. Now I have the most annoying problem. It keep turning off by itself. I don't know if is software/OS, hardware, some app, something I'm doing wrong, but it's driving me crazy.
Please guys, help =[
P.S.: Sorry my bad english.

I had same issue where it turned off on its own and wouldn't charge. I plug cable to wall charger and held power button for 1 minute nothing happened so I kept pressing power button repeatedly until it vibrated and started charging.
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So, it's charging normally now, but it keeps turning off itself. Another annoying problems is that it turn itself on when I connect it in the USB port on my PC, but not when I plug on wall charger.

Sorry for the double post, but I'm don't know what to do anymore! Please, someone help me! Any ideas!

Try this
Plug it in
Hold power button for 2-3 mins
Leave it charging for an hour then unplug
Hold power button for 30 seconds it should vibrate and boot
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I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.

imagenerator said:
I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.
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Hi are you able to connect the phone to a PC? If so I would transfer important data and then do a factory reset to see if that solves your issue sounds more like a software problem to me.

Already did a Factory Reset (the one in Configuration, the one the Fastboot just normally boot the device) and the problem persist.

So no one can help me? =[

imagenerator said:
So no one can help me? =[
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does the phone fades purple then goes crazy then shuts down for a while then turns back on?

It did it when I did something different, trying to turning on or recovery, I don't really remember. I remember that I freaked out, because the screen was black, without changing, than I did a reset (Power + Volume Up) and then it reseted.

You already try charging with wall charger? Maybe your PC don't have enough power to recharge this phone

I was able to charge the phone, Anyway, the device stopped to turning off alone. By itself. I didn't do anything different.
I'm so confused.

Something is shorting out inside, probably due to the said oxidation, which will most likely result in such behavior.
If you know how to do it, just open the phone, take the pcb out and clean it well with a dry contract cleaner and a hard toothbrush to remove any oxidation and possible residue.

Later I was thinking that could be it. So if anything goes wrong, I'll do it or ask to someone with a little more experience to do for me.
Thanks.

imagenerator said:
Later I was thinking that could be it. So if anything goes wrong, I'll do it or ask to someone with a little more experience to do for me.
Thanks.
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Some Moto G's do turn themselves ON when you plug in a charger, I have 2 and both do it - you connect the phone when it is turned OFF and then it turns itself on! Sometimes if I plug in the charger and turn OFF the phone quickly it stays off.
It's a bug / feature / quirk but it's unfortunately normal so you can discount that as being a problem related to your other problem.

imagenerator said:
I guess you missing the point: I CAN charge and I CAN turn it on. The problem is that the cellphone keeps turning itself off at random. Random time, in random activites.
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I'm having this exact problem too. The phone is less than a month old. Twice this week its happened. Phone was close to fully charged on going to bed, I still checked some emails while it was plugged in.. the charging symbol was also on, so I know it was charging ok when I put it down... then in the morning, wake up, phone is off, but the battery display is showing 100% (The big one shown on screen when it is turned off)
Potentially if I was only using my phone as an alarm, I'd have not woken up. I always use a backup, but now this Moto G worries me!
Seems a few people are having this issue!

My phone won't boot.

Okay this is my story. First i installed Purekat ROM wich didn't work so i had to combine it together with Katik for missing apps. Then it worked great for a week. When i was out i left my phone on a table, it was on 35% battery. 10 minutes later i checked my phone and it was dead, i tried to turn it on and it did, but it showed that battery was low on 0% it shut down. When i got home i tried to turn it on but it didn't work, when i plug it in a charger nothing happens, i try to turn it on while it's on a charger and it just vibrates, sometimes when i turn it on a charger it just flashes white. Can anyone help me here?

Frnjadood said:
Okay this is my story. First i installed Purekat ROM wich didn't work so i had to combine it together with Katik for missing apps. Then it worked great for a week. When i was out i left my phone on a table, it was on 35% battery. 10 minutes later i checked my phone and it was dead, i tried to turn it on and it did, but it showed that battery was low on 0% it shut down. When i got home i tried to turn it on but it didn't work, when i plug it in a charger nothing happens, i try to turn it on while it's on a charger and it just vibrates, sometimes when i turn it on a charger it just flashes white. Can anyone help me here?
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Can your phone boot to recovery/download mode by pressing power button+volume up/down button?