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So the past couple of days ive been going into these auto reboot phases. Right as the battery makes contact with the phone it boots on. I can not get out of this auto reboot. It will not connect to the computer, just two windows beeps. If any one can help that would be great! Thank you
Check ur power button.
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Check ur power button.
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Alright check what now?
Lol......looks like the power button issue as u said phones switch on when u put the battery in so that means the power button is stuck in side. Press the power button rapidly (worked for someone i know)if this does not works show it to a repair Guy.
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Okay so your supposed to be able to hold the power button for 10 to 15 seconds for the phone to do a hard reboot but it doesn't work.
On my nexus 7 and kindle fire I can just hold the power button for 10 to 15 seconds if the device locks up or freezes on me and it will do a hard reboot but on the SGS3 it doesn't reboot, I held the power button in for over a minute and nothing happened, sometimes my phone locks up or freezes on me and its a pain to have to pull the battery out in order to reboot as I have a cover on my phone.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there a combination of buttons I am supposed to push for it to work? Any help will be much appreciated.
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Hmmm, I am able to use this regularly when my phone has problems. Had an SOD on CM10, and also a lockup in TWRP and was able to reset the device with the power button. Sorry I cant offer anything other than saying that you dont appear to be doing anything wrong.
Holding the power button doesn't force a reboot for me or my dad either. I didn't see anything in the manual about forcing a reboot either. AFAIK pulling the battery is the only thing that works.
I got the infamous black screen the other day and had no clue what was going on. I'd never gotten it before on any of my Android devices so I was freaked out. I thought I may have killed something. I tried the power button / volume rocker to no avail. Pulling the battery was the only thing that worked.
Thank you Samsung for giving us a removable battery.
My wife has the GS3 too and I have tried holding the power button for 10 to 15 seconds and nothing happens. Weird that some phones it will reboot and others don't while holding the power button.
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I just tried. Nothing happened
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Power button works for me and I've done it, let me see, 10+ times. It doesn't work right away sometimes, but a few iterations of holding down power for 15 seconds, release for 1-2 seconds, holding it down again, and so on works every time for me.
I haven't taken the back off my phone yet. Well once, to see how to do it, but I didn't need to so I promise the power button works.
EDIT: As luck would have it, I had to do a hard reset on my phone shortly after writing this and I actually hold volume down and power (no volume up or home button) and I cycle through holding it down for 10 seconds, letting go, holding it down, etc. I don't know if it's just my phone, but it vibrates after a couple iterations and I know it's good to go. I always keep my phone on vibrate though so I don't know if that will apply to you.
On the topic of needing to hard reset our phones, am I the only one who's phone deals out about once a day? As in locks up and flickers like it's having a stroke...just curious
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Power button works for me and I've done it, let me see, 10+ times. It doesn't work right away sometimes, but a few iterations of holding down power for 15 seconds, release for 1-2 seconds, holding it down again, and so on works every time for me.
I haven't taken the back off my phone yet. Well once, to see how to do it, but I didn't need to so I promise the power button works.
EDIT: As luck would have it, I had to do a hard reset on my phone shortly after writing this and I actually hold volume down and power (no volume up or home button) and I cycle through holding it down for 10 seconds, letting go, holding it down, etc. I don't know if it's just my phone, but it vibrates after a couple iterations and I know it's good to go. I always keep my phone on vibrate though so I don't know if that will apply to you.
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sometimes a locked up phone will reboot on its own and it always vibrates first. you may just wasting your time with all the button pushing
Hi there,
Sorry but I think I finally found the right forum for this and I wanted to take one more stab before kissing this phone goodbye.
I have a Rogers Galaxy SGH-i727R. About three weeks ago, the phone started re-starting on it's own. I though maybe it was a sticky power key and had that replaced. The problem persisted. I then noticed that it was primarily upon receiving text messages that the phone would reboot. So it seemed it was a software issue. I am running the stable build of CM9.
Yesterday the phone rebooted and never got off the angry alien screen. I pulled the battery, charged it etc and still could not get it to fully boot up. I left it for over an hour. I finally decided to call it quits and re-flash the phone. Problem is, it will not boot into recovery at all. When I hold down Vol + - and Power, it jsut goes into a loop of vibrating every three seconds until I let go and then it tries a normal boot again. Once, I briefly got a screen saying I was trying to install custom software and to press volume up to do so, but before I could hit volume up, the phone cycled off.
I should also mention that the four buttons on the bottom of the screen do not work. I accidentally sliced the wires on the side of the phone when opening it up. I use a software button saver widget to access their functions. I wonder if that issue is related....
Thanks for any advice. I would like to get into recovery so I can load a new ROM or a stock ROM.
If you haven't ventured there yet in this forum I'd recommend Vincom's roundup on just about everything http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652398. I don't know if it will help much in your situation but it's worth a look. Also, you may want to research usb jigs, not sure if they will work with our devices though ... research is the key word.
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Hi there,
Sorry but I think I finally found the right forum for this and I wanted to take one more stab before kissing this phone goodbye.
I have a Rogers Galaxy SGH-i727R. About three weeks ago, the phone started re-starting on it's own. I though maybe it was a sticky power key and had that replaced. The problem persisted. I then noticed that it was primarily upon receiving text messages that the phone would reboot. So it seemed it was a software issue. I am running the stable build of CM9.
Yesterday the phone rebooted and never got off the angry alien screen. I pulled the battery, charged it etc and still could not get it to fully boot up. I left it for over an hour. I finally decided to call it quits and re-flash the phone. Problem is, it will not boot into recovery at all. When I hold down Vol + - and Power, it jsut goes into a loop of vibrating every three seconds until I let go and then it tries a normal boot again. Once, I briefly got a screen saying I was trying to install custom software and to press volume up to do so, but before I could hit volume up, the phone cycled off.
I should also mention that the four buttons on the bottom of the screen do not work. I accidentally sliced the wires on the side of the phone when opening it up. I use a software button saver widget to access their functions. I wonder if that issue is related....
Thanks for any advice. I would like to get into recovery so I can load a new ROM or a stock ROM.
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All I can tell you is that your problem sounds exactly like a stuck power button. I know you replaced it but all the symptoms you point out suggest stuck power button. Maybe try cleaning it again?
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rushi.1986 said:
All I can tell you is that your problem sounds exactly like a stuck power button. I know you replaced it but all the symptoms you point out suggest stuck power button. Maybe try cleaning it again?
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yes but i wouldn't rule out
I should also mention that the four buttons on the bottom of the screen do not work. I accidentally sliced the wires on the side of the phone when opening it up. I use a software button saver widget to access their functions. I wonder if that issue is related....
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rushi.1986 said:
All I can tell you is that your problem sounds exactly like a stuck power button. I know you replaced it but all the symptoms you point out suggest stuck power button. Maybe try cleaning it again?
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But if it were a stuck power button it would not stay on the loading screen indefinitely, no? If I hold down the power button while booting, it will turn the phone off.
Hold vol +- and pwr until it vibrates let go of pwr continue to hold vol +-. You were letting go of all of them at once going by your described method.
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Hold vol +- and pwr until it vibrates let go of pwr continue to hold vol +-. You were letting go of all of them at once going by your described method.
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****. I am a total moron. The phone still reboots after receiving a text but I was able to boot into recovery. Thanks.
Hi all!
This morning I turned off the alarm, at that moment I think I had around 30% battery.
One or two hours later I found the phone turned off, so I supposed the battery went away.
So I connected the wall charger and after a while then I tried to turn it on.
When I did that, Back, Home and the other key started to blink. I remembered that already happened once, so I tried to press volume down + turn on button (or I tried to press the turn on button alone). And I did it for 30 seconds.
The keys stopped blinking and the red light turned off. Nothing else happened, no screen, no lights...
I left the phone connected to the charger, without light. Then I tried to press the turn on button again for 30 seconds, and the red light appeared.
The thing is, if I disconnect the charger, the red light keeps on, unless I press the switch button for 30 seconds and it gets off.
I don't know what to do, I supposed that maybe it's a qhsusb_dload case, but I have no idea.
I appreciate any assistance on this!
Regards,
Dani
Leave it plugged in overnight (or many hours) and try again.
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Will do
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Leave it plugged in overnight (or many hours) and try again.
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Thank you for this quick response!
Even if the red light keeps turned on without being connected to the charger? It never happened to me.
Should I try with volume-down + switch key?
Yeah just make sure you leave it on charge for a long time before trying to turn it on.
If that doesn't work, plug it into your pc and see what comes up in device manager.
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Yeah just make sure you leave it on charge for a long time before trying to turn it on.
If that doesn't work, plug it into your pc and see what comes up in device manager.
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I have tried connecting it to the computer but was not recognized, no new device, nothing.
Stop messing with it, and just leave it alone to charge for several hours.
Hi guys, thanks for the replies.
I left it charging all night, and tried a moment ago and still not working.
i find weird the thing that it has like "2 modes"
- red light turned on all time, even if it's not charging (I left it charging in this mode)
- red light off (now I'm charging it in this mode)
I can switch the light by pressing the volume down + power button for around 20 seconds.
I'm going to try charging it connected to the computer.
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I can switch the light by pressing the volume down + power button for around 20 seconds.
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If you are trying to get into bootloader, you actually have to release the power button (after pressing it for a few seconds) while still holding volume down. Don't release volume down until you see the white bootloader screen (or you get tired of doing it, and decide its not working).
Also try to get into bootloader while the wall charger is plugged in. There was at least one guy that had a similar issue, and the phone would not power on no matter what he tried, until he tried bootloader with the charger connected. Weird, I know. But worth a try.
I left the phone charging all night long, and it's the same... nothing.
I would analyze if it's a QHSUSB_DLOAD case. I'm downloading ubuntu.
If it's not, I think I'm gonna dissasembly the phone and see if there's something disconnected.
Any ideas are welcome, later I'm going to upload a video.
What method did you use to try to power it on?
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I have tried just pressing power button for 10 seconds, then I've tried pressing it for 30 seconds.
Then I've tried pressing volume down + power for a few seconds, then release the power while keeping volume down, for a couple of seconds. Nothing,
Then I've tried with 30 seconds and what I see is that the red light is switched off when I do this.
What worry me most is that the red light keeps on even with the charger disconnected.
Short video:
Short video showing that is not entering to fastboot
Long video:
Long video showing that is not entering to fastboot and the red light gets off
Hi guys,
I left the phone 10hs connected to the computer instead of the wall charger and today the red light is blinking.
I've read that is due a very low battery charge, but I've left it charging for 10hs or more, how could it be??
Is your pc recognising the device at all now?
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I have the same problem but except my red light isn't on at all. I just connected to my PC again and it read it but still doesn't turn on.
That's a brick. You can try the unbrick evita thread or jtagg
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exad said:
That's a brick. You can try the unbrick evita thread or jtagg
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Hi all, thanks for all the responses.
Which unbrick do you recommend???
Not you. Yours appears to be a battery or charging issue. Hardware.
The other guys is a brick.
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Is there any other cause? Or it's sure that is a hardware issue?
I just want try to avoid sending the phone service, because it was unlocked.
Regards,
Daniel
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Is your pc recognising the device at all now?
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I have tried connecting the phone to ubuntu and executed lsusb from terminal.
Listed a couple of usb devices but not the phone.
It's difficult to be certain that its hardware but typically the phone would return to its normal state after a long charge. I recall another person who was also not able to return his to a normal state in the sane situation as you and he had to send it out. Yours does not display the same qualities of a phone stuck in qdl mode.
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Today, my family was going to celebrate Canada Day. I was running Root-Box *with Halo!* and everything was well. I charged up my phone to 80%. Cleared the necessary caches, resets, and then proceeded to restore to my now 20 day old ViperXL Backup. I restored and booted , everything was working well, but the phone was hot as it always is when i restore a ROM. So i went to go get ready, when i came back i turned the phone on from standby and it didn't respond. I unplugged it and did all button combinations ( volume up and down and power, volume down and power,just power). I did lots of research and I all I could find was that leave it to cool down then charge. So I left it and came back after 3 hours and it was still the same. Another finding from my research was to charge it. Now, when i do it flashes the red led. and thats all. Its supposed to go to solid red after a while but its been 3 hours and still blinking red. I tried to adb things (adb reboot, addb flash recovery <file link here>). But nothing. So now Im here hopefully you guys can help me out. Thanks for reading.
Also, when i plug it into the computer, it detects installs a driver thens stops. It keeps on making connect and disconnect sounds on the computer. Not detected by adb or htc sync manager. I tried all the power cables, stock HTC, apple power block, samsung and even blackberry!
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Also, when i plug it into the computer, it detects installs a driver thens stops. It keeps on making connect and disconnect sounds on the computer. Not detected by adb or htc sync manager. I tried all the power cables, stock HTC, apple power block, samsung and even blackberry!
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hope it doesn't detect QHSUSB_LOAD when you connect it to your PC...
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hope it doesn't detect QHSUSB_LOAD when you connect it to your PC...
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thanks for the reply it connect but disconnects. If you go to device manager it keeps refreshing as it connects and disconnects and then reconnects. When you do however go to human interface devices you see HID interface, and USB input devices. Thanks for replying. I cant get into the bootloader either. Charged it all night and its still the same thing.
mr.5106411 said:
thanks for the reply it connect but disconnects. If you go to device manager it keeps refreshing as it connects and disconnects and then reconnects. When you do however go to human interface devices you see HID interface, and USB input devices. Thanks for replying. I cant get into the bootloader either. Charged it all night and its still the same thing.
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Have you tried the simulated battery pull?? Just hold down power until captive lights start flashing.. let it keep flashing for I think 10-12 times and release power button.
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Have you tried the simulated battery pull?? Just hold down power until captive lights start flashing.. let it keep flashing for I think 10-12 times and release power button.
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I tried all combinations, it wont go to boot loader, it wont do a simulated battery pull it wont re calibrate the chagring mechanism. (vol up + vol down + power).
mr.5106411 said:
I tried all combinations, it wont go to boot loader, it wont do a simulated battery pull it wont re calibrate the chagring mechanism. (vol up + vol down + power).
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lights wont flash. The only thing that flashes is the red LED. it flashes quickly, not slowly like it does when you put it for charging after its dead (no battery).
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lights wont flash. The only thing that flashes is the red LED. it flashes quickly, not slowly like it does when you put it for charging after its dead (no battery).
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you got warranty?
mr.5106411 said:
I tried all combinations, it wont go to boot loader, it wont do a simulated battery pull it wont re calibrate the chagring mechanism. (vol up + vol down + power).
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Stay away from vol up + power. It will put the phone in QHSUSB_LOAD, which nothing good will come from.
You should not be trying "all combinations" just the right one for bootloader. Make sure you are holding vol down, the press power for 5 seconds or so (do the capacitive buttons flash at all if you do that?) release the power button, but do not release the vol down button until the hboot screen comes up. Or of course, you are convinced the phone is still not responsive.
Try this with the charger plugged in and unplugged.
Make sure you charge for several hours on the wall charger, not connected to your computer.
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you got warranty?
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There have been some cases of the phone becoming suddenly unresponsive like this, apparently due to hardware failure. These reports seem to be getting a bit more common as the phone is getting a bit "older" (over a year).
However, since the OP was just futzing with it (restored a nandroid), I tend to believe its not a hardware failure. And that he can still possibly recover.
But that is just a gut feeling (and maybe being too optimistic).
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Stay away from vol up + power. It will put the phone in QHSUSB_LOAD, which nothing good will come from.
You should not be trying "all combinations" just the right one for bootloader. Make sure you are holding vol down, the press power for 5 seconds or so (do the capacitive buttons flash at all if you do that?) release the power button, but do not release the vol down button until the hboot screen comes up. Or of course, you are convinced the phone is still not responsive.
Try this with the charger plugged in and unplugged.
Make sure you charge for several hours on the wall charger, not connected to your computer.
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There have been some cases of the phone becoming suddenly unresponsive like this, apparently due to hardware failure. These reports seem to be getting a bit more common as the phone is getting a bit "older" (over a year).
However, since the OP was just futzing with it (restored a nandroid), I tend to believe its not a hardware failure. And that he can still possibly recover.
But that is just a gut feeling (and maybe being too optimistic).
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I tired both of your suggestion but no hboot menu. and my warranty just ended last month. ( any other ideas?
Here is a video showing what happens. I appreciate the help BTW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lzm5PKlp-E&feature=youtu.be