So I have a Stock Non-Rooted year old Galaxy s 4g that just turned off on me one day. I have tried everything to get it turned on. It does not bring up the battery charging screen when plugged in, and it refuses to boot into download mode. I suspect a hard brick, but I don't know what would cause it. Not only did it just turn off, it was at exactly 60% battery life and it shut down when I was trying to email my friend.
Take the battery out of the phone and put it on a flat surface like a kitchen counter. See if you can rock the battery back and forth and see if there is a bulge in the center, it shouldn't rock. Mine did this to me a year after I bought it and replacing the battery solved it.
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I would jump on amazon.com and buy a battery....you can find them for $5-7.00 all day long there.
You can even buy the battery for the vibrant at that price or lower and they work just fine.
I have 4 vibrant batteries i use with an external charger.
I know that the battery works, because i tried it in my friends galaxy, and his worked fine.
Tried his in yours?
How's your cable? Try a different one. I've got a handful that won't charge my phone, but, will work on my wife's Samsung (and some that will/will not charge my company phone)...
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Yeah, I did try his in mine, and it still wouldn't charge. I did try with another cable, still no results
Power it up and root the darn thing. Then install an ics rom. Hopefully your problem will resolve.
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Yeah, I did try his in mine, and it still wouldn't charge. I did try with another cable, still no results
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And it won't boot up correct?
Yes, and it wont go into recovery or download mode
Man that sucks. Best advice I can give you is to call Samsung. If it's under a year they will warranty it. If it's over a year they may charge you. There a pretty good company when it comes to honoring their warranty so it's worth a shot. Sounds like critical hardware failure to me.
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Hello,
My tablet seems to be dead.
One day I just put it into the charger after its battery was completely empty. The next morning, the tablet was not responding at all, the charging animation logo was not moving, and when I tried to turn it on, it showed the Samsung Galaxy Tab logo and that's it, and if I turned it off, it opens again by itself and stops at Samsung logo. After some tries, I did not know what to do.
No, it had the original firmware.
It does not open the recovery menu, however, it does open the menu for updating the software - I tried to install the original firmware, but that solution does not work as well.
I'd appreciate any advice.
Thanks.
I have similar experience but I am not sure if the cause was the same. First thing first, you said you put your 7.7 into a charger, if I recalled correctly stock 7.7 doesn't come with a charging cradle. Did you actually mean the wall-charger that comes with the package?
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Yes, I meant the wall-charger.
What did you do with your device?..
Can you get into download mode or recovery? If You can get into recovery do a factory reset. If you are on ICS flash honeycomb first before reset just to be safe.
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Yes, I meant the wall-charger.
What did you do with your device?..
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I over-drained the battery like you did. Modern Li-ion batteries have over-charging and under-charging protection. Without them your battery would be damaged (or even exploded on over-charging protection failure)
In my case the undercharging prrotection kicked in thus I need to find a high and constant current to charge it back up. Any source that makes 7.7 display the charging animation could help. I went to a shop and tried many battery packs, eventually I see the charging animation again when I plugged it into a 6000mhA battery pack with 2.1A output.
I could have taken it to service centre but I don't want to wait 2-week, and I kinda need to get a battery pack for my tab so...
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Can you get into download mode or recovery? If You can get into recovery do a factory reset. If you are on ICS flash honeycomb first before reset just to be safe.
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I cannot get into the recovery mode, however, it opens the download mode. I tried in load it with the original firmware, but that did not work. =/
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I over-drained the battery like you did. Modern Li-ion batteries have over-charging and under-charging protection. Without them your battery would be damaged (or even exploded on over-charging protection failure)
In my case the undercharging prrotection kicked in thus I need to find a high and constant current to charge it back up. Any source that makes 7.7 display the charging animation could help. I went to a shop and tried many battery packs, eventually I see the charging animation again when I plugged it into a 6000mhA battery pack with 2.1A output.
I could have taken it to service centre but I don't want to wait 2-week, and I kinda need to get a battery pack for my tab so...
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Amm.. am gonna try this.. if it did not work, then I have no option but to to visit the service center.
Thanks a lot!
YAY .. IT WORKED.. THANKS A MILLION!!
I took it to a shop and tried to charge it as you said, I do not remember the exact power charge, but I think it was 2.1A.
Did I mention that I already sent it to the service center and they couldn't repair it! neither a local repair shop! =//
wow.. thanks!
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YAY .. IT WORKED.. THANKS A MILLION!!
I took it to a shop and tried to charge it as you said, I do not remember the exact power charge, but I think it was 2.1A.
Did I mention that I already sent it to the service center and they couldn't repair it! neither a local repair shop! =//
wow.. thanks!
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I am surprise that your local service center couldn't help, given that undercharging is such a common problem of this power-hunger tablet (happened to me twice).
Glad to help.
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I over-drained the battery like you did. Modern Li-ion batteries have over-charging and under-charging protection. Without them your battery would be damaged (or even exploded on over-charging protection failure)
In my case the undercharging prrotection kicked in thus I need to find a high and constant current to charge it back up. Any source that makes 7.7 display the charging animation could help. I went to a shop and tried many battery packs, eventually I see the charging animation again when I plugged it into a 6000mhA battery pack with 2.1A output.
I could have taken it to service centre but I don't want to wait 2-week, and I kinda need to get a battery pack for my tab so...
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Hi,
I'm experiencing exactly the same problem.
To resolver the issue; can you pl confirm if I need to get a battery pack or one can just charge with the charger supplied with the device?
Ive posted this before but i think these devices when get too low in battery power wont charge even with the wall charger.the charging circuits need a certain amount of power to trigger it to start charging.
anyway good to see you got it sorted..
So lately I've been running into a rather annoying and inconvenient problem with my beloved S3. The thing doesn't charge well, at all. Plugged into the wall, via USB, via fast charge USB...I just can't get it to charge. I went to bed last night with the phone at around 30%, plugged it into the wall, and when I woke up 7 hours later it was at 55%....not ideal. Same result when I left it plugged into my computer overnight. At first I thought it was the wall charger, but that was ruled out when I found that I couldn't charge over usb either. My current suspect is a faulty usb cable, and unfortunately I don't have another one to test. What are the odds its damaged contacts on the inside of the phone? is there a way to test/look for that? FYI I'm running beans jellybean build 2, but this problem started when I was still on ICS. Any ideas as to what could be causing it? I've noticed high android system usage (over 50%), but I doubt that accounts for the drain I'm seeing. Any help figuring this our would be appreciated.
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I had this exact same issue, eventually it stopped charging at all.
Turned out to be a fault of the phone. Called Verizon, they sent me another battery to try, didn't fix anything, they then did a warranty exchange. Got a refurb phone and it works great.
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Thanks for the intel. Im actually on a refurb right now due to some issues with my launch device. Was your replacement covered under warranty at no cost? Unfortunately for me I'm abroad so I can't exactly go in to a Verizon store or call them to ship a replacement.
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Do wipe the battery stats and see - wouldn't probably solve the issue but worth trying !
I too have USB problems. A normal car charger will work but when I use my USB wall/laptop/car it won't charge much. When i sleep it stops charging and I wake up to 70% battery or so. I don't know if its my cable (which it probably is) or if its my phone. Where do I go about replacing my USB?
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Try Amazon dude, cheap quality cables are easy to come by
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I too have USB problems. A normal car charger will work but when I use my USB wall/laptop/car it won't charge much. When i sleep it stops charging and I wake up to 70% battery or so. I don't know if its my cable (which it probably is) or if its my phone. Where do I go about replacing my USB?
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For me I think it is my AC adapter. My phone charges faster plugged into my macbook than my wall charger.
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I'll try to find a new cable and see if it works. Other than that I'm at a loss. I think I've had this problem before and fixed it with a complete drain, followed by a full charge from the wall (with phone off). I can't remember if it was this exact same situation though, and also have no idea why said solution would work.
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thats crazy...my device charges in 2.5hrs plugged into the wall.
Does Samsung sell the USB on their site? I don't like things that aren't exactly made for my phone.
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Does Samsung sell the USB on their site? I don't like things that aren't exactly made for my phone.
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Amazon: OEM Cable
Although I don't think you'll have any issues with any generic cables, I've used many different cables from other phones, monoprice, amazon, etc and haven't had any issues with charging any phone I have.
Alright I just had my phone plugged in for over 7 hours to get it to 100%. I'll give a progress report when I try to charge it again. Fyi it just dropped 2% in less than a minute.
UPDATE: battery still horrible. Went back to tw nandroid to rule out the possibility of a JB leak bug
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Doubtful that anyone will see this, but there's a new development. My phone's LED indicator turned green to signal a full charge while the phone was still at 91%.... whatever that means
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Do wipe the battery stats and see - wouldn't probably solve the issue but worth trying !
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This was debunked by a lead Google engineer. It's Snake Oil ----- does nothing.
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Amazon: OEM Cable
Although I don't think you'll have any issues with any generic cables, I've used many different cables from other phones, monoprice, amazon, etc and haven't had any issues with charging any phone I have.
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I want the one that came with my phone. I'm currently using that cable, until I find the EXACT USB that came with a Galaxy S3.
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Mine was doing that same **** before it broke when it stopped suddenly just after impact with concrete.
I was about to reflash the synergy rom I was on hoping that would fix it.
Did a reinstall fix the charging issue no now you've just got a wrong indicator or is the charging issue still there.
I totally attribute this to a degrading OS... Now I'm not so sure...
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Still persists after multiple ROM flashes. I'm gonna get a new cable and see if that works.
Update: yup it was the cable. At least it's not the phone
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Glad you sorted your issue.
Last night, out of the blue, my new to me refurb from asurion decided to not charge either.
Unplug, reboot, plug back in.. charging as normal. Wtf?
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Well, its back at it.
At 16% earlier today the phone was plugged in, charged fine, fell on its face. Unplugged, battery pull, charging again then slows. 6 hours later it was up to 75% where its slowly been losing charge while plugged in.
Any idears?
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On Amazon you can buy a battery with a standalone charger you could charge and swap batteries till you can get a new phone if it is now warranty replaced
I'm stumped on this one... Nexus S 4g that's been retired from active duty for a few months since I upgraded to my Galaxy S3. I've been using it as a fancy MP3 player for a couple of months because I work in an environment where it takes a lickin' and I'm not concerned if it gets destroyed.
Sometime between Monday and today, the battery must have died. I figured, No Problem! I'll just plug her in! So I did, hit the power button, and it flashed the Google screen, then nothing. I figured maybe it was flat dead, so I let it charge for a couple hours, and the phone itself got warm, so presumably it charged some during that time. However now, I get no response from it whatsoever. Plugging it in doesn't show the battery charging screen like it used to with the power off. I tried pulling the battery and leaving it out for an hour, still to no avail. The charging cord is good as verified by my Galaxy S3. Is it just plain DOA? Is it time to write this one off?
Charge for awhile and attempt to go into recovery.
If that works then ur good. From there go to a backup, new ROM or the ROM u where already on(if its still working)
Good luck
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vidaljs said:
Charge for awhile and attempt to go into recovery.
If that works then ur good. From there go to a backup, new ROM or the ROM u where already on(if its still working)
Good luck
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No can do... I get no response in any way, shape, or form. No charging icon, no boot screen into recovery or not. It's a brick. Anybody need some spare parts?
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No can do... I get no response in any way, shape, or form. No charging icon, no boot screen into recovery or not. It's a brick. Anybody need some spare parts?
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nexus s die without warning it happend for second time to me only chance samsng service...im sorry for you :crying:
Hi Guys,
I need thought my own Sky would give me problems since i take care of it so well :crying:
So last night i put the phone on my night table to charge, it had 9% battery left and the phone beeped since i plugged the charger and it was charging, now in the morning when i realize i'm late for work, i went to check my phone and it was dead(no alarm this morning). It was all plugged in still the charger and battery. Now i got to work and a work partner has a Sky too, i tested his battery on my Sky and nothing, tested my battery on his Sky and worked so my battery is fine(it was 100%), i tested my charger on his Sky and charged, i tested his charger on mine and nothing.
Tried plugging the phone with only usb cable to the pc without battery to reach download mode or recovery but nothing.
Now since our batteries are fine and chargers, im assuming my motherboard died which i was thinking if the battery would work it was going to be the charging port.
Is there a way to test each part of the phone o be more accurate about this issue?
Thanks in advance.
Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
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Can you get into download, recovery? Any vibration on long press power button? What rom was it on.. How long? Etc. Need a bit more info.
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The phone won't do anything at all, i have fixed Sky's power button before and this is really weird. Stock Rom/Kernel, it was Android 4.1.2 and i have it for like 1year and 6 months.
If you need anything else let me know.
One more thing that could help, lately i noticed that the phone wasn't charging as fast as usual.I installed the Skyrocket charging app and when i plugged the charger to the phone it would say Fast Charge A/C 900~ mA and after like 30 seconds it would go down to 800, 700, 600 and then say Charger Wakelock 500~ mA.
Im really starting to think my board died.
Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol
it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo
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Dead board. It happened to me on another Samsung phone a few weeks go. Came home from a day of fun. Put phone on table and plugged it in. Went to bed. Woke up to a completely non responsive phone. Got a new battery just in case. Still nothing. It was a great phone too. Oh well at least it died in it's sleep. lol
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it happened to my sons s2 i9100, went to charge it and when he went back to it and it was dead, got it repaired under ext. warranty but cant find invoice on what they fixed if they even stated what they fixed, my guess mobo
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OH Jesus Christ, i'll try to get a new mobo then and update this.
And i'll lose all my data and will have to restore a Kies Backup from May-2013. Great!:highfive::victory: :crying:
Had this happen once or twice. It turned out that the usb port on the bottom of the phone had some junk that accumulated in there as well as some signs of minor corrosion, and was not making a good connection anymore. It just needed to be cleaned out. First, I think I just (very carefully) used a needle or safety pin or something like that to gently extract the lint/dust/crap out of the port, and then cleaned up the metal connectors in the port, and one of the back inside corners where I saw a little bit of green/white build up, with a little bit of isopropyl alcohol. I let it sit for a little bit to make sure it was dry and when I plugged it in, it started charging again. I happened to have an Optivisor lying around which made it a bit easier to see what I was doing, but it isn't necessary. The most annoying part was getting a small, focused beam of light from a flashlight into the port at just the right angle, and then figuring out how to keep it there while I worked. Shouldn't take long, and as long as you don't do something really dumb, it can't hurt to give it a try.
Except that he ruled that out by swapping batteries with his friends phone.
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Hello, my niece brought me an faulty s6 and asked if i could fix it. Since i used to repair peoples phones a few years ago.
When i got it, it was completely dead, except a white light of doom on the led bulb when i tried to boot in DLmode/recovery. That later stopped lighting too. I then tried to change the battery for a new one. It didn't change a thing, so i thought it might be the charging port. So i got a qi charger...
So here we are, the qi charger tries to charge it (i can see the light animation for it). The phone gets warm but no sign of any juice to the battery..
Can't see any next steps that are worthwhile..
I would really like to get the data off the phone tho..
Any ideas?
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Hello, my niece brought me an faulty s6 and asked if i could fix it. Since i used to repair peoples phones a few years ago.
When i got it, it was completely dead, except a white light of doom on the led bulb when i tried to boot in DLmode/recovery. That later stopped lighting too. I then tried to change the battery for a new one. It didn't change a thing, so i thought it might be the charging port. So i got a qi charger...
So here we are, the qi charger tries to charge it (i can see the light animation for it). The phone gets warm but no sign of any juice to the battery..
Can't see any next steps that are worthwhile..
I would really like to get the data off the phone tho..
Any ideas?
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Do you get any sign of life plugging into a pc? Adb is your best bet to get data but you need to be careful using it.
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Do you get any sign of life plugging into a pc? Adb is your best bet to get data but you need to be careful using it.
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Nope, no life at all. Don't think I'll be able to salvage this one