I had purchased a new battery for my phone which didn't fit 100% so when I turned on my phone with it in the contacts became loose while it was booting up and it shut down.
Ever since this my Nexus S i9020 has become a total brick... I can't get it to boot at all even when I plug it in to the AC Charger, plug it in to the computer, tried the old battery, tried leaving the battery out for several hours and plugging back in, tried leaving it plugged in to make sure it wasn't randomly dead, I've tried booting using all the combination of buttons and maybe to see if I could even just factory reset... The phone won't respond to anything (even unbrickable resurrector won't recognize the phone when plugged in.)
I bought this phone used off eBay a couple months ago and it was working great but as far as I know I have no warranty...
What can I do to get my phone back? I don't care if I have to send it away at this point but I've heard horror stories of Samsung taking forever and I just need to get my phone working again. Is there a repair depot in Canada that I can send my phone to get unbricked?
I don't have a jig and I haven't tried and JTAG stuff simply because I don't have it but my phone is as dead as a doornail and I really need to get it back to life.
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Okay well last night I was having trouble charging my phone while at my uncles an thought it was just the charger I was using cause the cord was messed up but when I was driving home my phone died and when I got home I found that my phone would no longer charge I tried 5 different chargers switching between normal wall chargers, USB Power Cord with my computer (USB Debugging will not recognize either) an then I tried 1 last one an it charged long enough so that it would stay alive and I got it up to about 50% then unplugged it cause I thought it was fixed but then it got down to 15% and I plugged it back in an it would no longer charge so I waited for it to die and waited an let it charge fully now here I am again and it will not charge again does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it? I have tried all the normal stuff to try an fix it such as battery out reset holding every combination of keys letting it fully die an charge.
TLR I have a Nexus S 4G Model SPH-D720 with JB 4.1.1 and it will not charge unless it fully dies then only picks up the charge for the first charger plugged in then if it gets unplugged will not work again.
I've spent a while searching and would like to know if there are any fixes as I will not be able to visit Sprint tomorrow or Monday so it's not the greatest situation for me.
If still under warranty try to get a replacement. You can see if its your battery being the issue as well.
You won the price for world longest sentence.
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eksasol said:
If still under warranty try to get a replacement. You can see if its your battery being the issue as well.
You won the price for world longest sentence.
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Will Sprint still take back a rooted phone? If so yes my phone is still under warranty.
Also now all it'll do is boot as soon as I plug it in an as it finishes booting up it just instantly says connect to charger (While still connected) and sometimes the touchscreen will work but most of the time it will not
It's a Nexus, and even if its not, I dont see why root means you lose warranty. It's clearly a hardware issue.
You can use fastboot to flash original firmware, but that won't work in this case since you can't keep it turned on.
Hi all,
I went to take my break at work, phone in hand, working, put it in my pocket. Signed out, proceeded to the elevators to go downstairs, take it back out and no response. Okay. Fine. Hold power...nothing. Pop the battery out for 30ish seconds, back in, case on...power...still nothing. Get to my car thinking maybe it died even though it had 50% left to the battery. Plug it into my car mount and the LED doesn't light up. I work minutes away from a Verizon store so I decide to stop by. I explain to the rep what was going on, he plugs it in and nothing. He tries a different battery and nothing. We both tried vol up + power + home and nothing.
I have not rooted my phone, and the only thing I did recently was factory reset it over the weekend just to give it a "fresh start."
After I got home not too long ago, plugged the phone in using the cable I usually take with me (just happened to leave it home today of course) and no response from the phone. However, if I remove the back cover and take the battery out the LED light DOES come on if I plug the phone in again for several minutes and then it goes out.
From what I've read here and elsewhere there was something about a bad EMMC chip that caused phones to just suddenly die, could this possibly be it?
Thanks.
Sounds like a hard brick to me. Try this
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dU5H8NJ7vTM&desktop_uri=/watch%=dU5H8NJ7vTM
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If ur not rooted wat so ever then jst get a warranty replacement
If you don't have the ability to software flash it or if you honestly think its a hardware issue you could try getting a warranty replacement through your carrier as suggested or if you'd like to keep your phone and not get a refurb and are willing to wait a couple weeks, you could always send it to Samsung for warranty repair.
Feel free to pm me if you wanna troubleshoot
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So basically, I fell asleep and left my phone charging and when I woke up, the green full charge light was on but nothing made the phone turn on. I tried holding the power button for 30 secs, holding the power and volume down button for awhile, and basically all sorts of button configurations but nothing seems to work. The light stayed on for a couple hours until I'm assuming the phone died. I spoke to a samsung employee and after I told him about the root, he said that the samsung had some kind of ota update that kinda bricks a rooted phone and that I'm basically screwed. Im not sure if that was just him being a samsung employee or not, but either way I'm sure it has something to do with it. Is there any way I can completely reset the firmware in it so I can at least use it again? I plugged it into my wall charger and computer with absolutely no sign of life. This seems like a very hard brick that most likely is the end for the phone, but before i go spend 200 dollars on a phone upgrade, is there anyway for me to get the phone working? Or on? Any help or advice is appreciated, thank you.
my mother has given me her galaxy S6 that may be possibly hard bricked. she already got an upgrade done for an s*, so she isnt in dire need of getting it working, except to get her pictures and files off it.
it started off when it was turned off and charging over night, and had the battery logo showing fully charged in the morning. unplugged the phone, and it just would not turn on at all. plugged it back in, and no lights or anything on screen would show.
She works at a local best buy, and spoken with one of the samsung experts there, and they informed that it could be a bad battery.
she ordered a replacement battery off amazon, fast forward a couple days, it comes in, and i replace the battery.
it still does not power on at all, even with attempting to boot to recovery, download mode, or anything.
the only thing different since replacing the battery is that now the led at the top of the phone just lights up white, and thats it. the only way to turn it off is it open it up and unplug the battery.
is there anything i could do or try to see if i can get any life out of it before declaring it dead?
Last year I picked up a Huawei Mate 9 (MHA-L29), but never really was able to use it as I couldn't activate it with my carrier at the time. So the phone sat in the box for more or less a full calendar year. It was fully functioning, I never rooted or flashed any kind of ROM/recovery on it, 100% stock.
After changing carriers, I decided a few days ago to try and activate it. Initially, it wouldn't power on at all. It wouldn't charge either, even with the original cable (or any other cable I tried). Then I remembered reading something about batteries in a Reddit thread (ELI5: "Why do 'dead' batteries work when you take them out of the remote and switch slots," or something like that) and somebody mentioned a chemical reaction triggered by the body heat transferred while handling them. So I decided to put the phone in my pocket and warm it up between my legs for about 10 minutes, and bam, suddenly it would power on with the charger connected, but it was stuck in a bootloop, wouldn't bring up the charging animation, and just repeated the process of showing the "Powered by Android" screen.
So now I'm stuck on this bootloop, can't access recovery/fastboot menus, nothing. It just powers off and powers on, over and over. Also, it won't power on without being connected to the charger. I've let it sit for as long as an hour or so charging, but it doesn't seem to do anything, as once it is unplugged, it immediately turns off. My computer doesn't seem to recognize it either, when plugged in and going through it's bootloop cycle.
Any ideas? Is this thing hardbricked? Is the battery a goner? What route might I take to go about fixing it, or getting it repaired? Is it even worth trying to get it repaired?
Any feedback would be appreciated!