I'm having a bit of an issue with my S3. It started yesterday when my power button became more or less permanently pressed in. It can't be used to wake up or lock the phone, and the power menu would continually pop up. While this was annoying, I figured it wouldn't be a major deal, and I would reflash stock and take my phone to verizon. I went to boot into recovery in order to make a back up...and now I'm stuck. Since the power button is permanently pressed in, the phone can't boot into recovery (I'm pretty sure if you just keep holding down the power button when trying to boot into recovery it will just turn off the phone again since this is what seems like is happening). So now I'm just stuck in a loop where my phone can't do anything except attempt to boot into recovery and then turn off. No matter what way I try to turn the phone on, it will only try and boot into recovery (and fail) now.
So what are my solutions? Can I try and open up the phone and fix the power button? Is that extremely difficult? Is there a way I can flash my phone back to stock in its current state and take it back to verizon? Should I just take it as is and hope they help me? I'm at a loss here.
So, yesterday my phone kept turning itself off for no apparent reason and then it would start vibrating constantly. I would take the battery out and restart the phone as normal and it would work. Later on, it shut off completely and did the same thing it had done for most of the day so I tried restarting it again like I had been doing. However, this time it would load the loading screen and get no further than it saying the model number before it turned off again and started vibrating. Before this time the phone would at least stay on for 10-15 minutes. I kept trying what I had been doing all day with no luck of it getting any further than the loading screen. If I put the battery in, it would immediately start up and then turn itself off and start vibrating again which it shouldn't do because I'd need to turn the phone on for it to load up. I looked up what the problem might be and people were saying to reboot the phone. I managed to get the recovery screen up for about 3 seconds before it turned off and started vibrating with a black screen again. Now the phone doesn't boot up/turn on at all if the battery is in. However if the battery is out and the phone is plugged into charge, then it would start up with the same problem as earlier. I would like to get to recovery to be able to either hard reset or flash a new rom, however, the phone will not boot into recovery, instead it will just turn it'self off again. The phone is not in usb debugging mode so I am unable to flash the phone via a third party software. Any help would be much appreciated as the phone is currently completely unusable.
Thank you.
check your power button ,it might be damaged...!!
No it's definitely not that because I could use it for get into recovery (even though it was for just a second, not long enough to be able to do anything). I have no idea what the problem could be.
Xperia_Play said:
No it's definitely not that because I could use it for get into recovery (even though it was for just a second, not long enough to be able to do anything). I have no idea what the problem could be.
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that is the idea, if the power button is blocked you can enter recovery just for a sex then it reboots,
when you put the battery on it turns on?
Yes, it used to turn on straight away when the battery was inserted but this isn't happening now. Probably time for a new phone.
Xperia_Play said:
Yes, it used to turn on straight away when the battery was inserted but this isn't happening now. Probably time for a new phone.
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if it isnt happening now its because you have no more battery left
you can fix it to a service, its not so expensive
ShadowsDie said:
if it isnt happening now its because you have no more battery left
you can fix it to a service, its not so expensive
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I have the same problem right now after a failed flash. So I would suppose it is not a stuck power button... I can't even get to recovery by the way....
Sepsis12 said:
I have the same problem right now after a failed flash. So I would suppose it is not a stuck power button... I can't even get to recovery by the way....
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can you get to download mode?
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can you get to download mode?
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I could get to download mode (for about 6 seconds)
After a lot of trying I suppose it must be the power button, as you suggested. I even succeded in installing a stock rom (by pressing the power button in the download mode every seconds or two)...
Seems strange though. I suppose pressing the power button to get into the download and recovery mode gets it stuck....
Thanks for your suggestion though. I will bring the smartphone to a store tomorrow and see if they can get it fixed.
I honesty don't know how to describe my problem so I guess I will just tell you whats happening and what I know about my phone.
My phone:
Unlocked Verizon Galaxy S3 running CM for recovery, and CyanogenMod 10 for the ROM (Updated with Odin from Jelly Bean).
The issue:
1) Whenever I press the power button the phone completely shuts off. It doesn't just go to the lock screen, it turns off.
2) The phone will not always turn back on.
3) 85% of the time when it doesn't turn on, it boots into the first splash screen and turns off.
4) When I try to put the phone into download or recovery mode the first screen will pop up for about two seconds and then the phone will turn off again. The phone will either shut down on the cancel/download screen for download mode or the first splash screen with the blue text at the top for recovery mode.
5) The other 15% of the time it will reach the CyanogenMod screen, freeze, then shut off.
6) When I put it on the charger, the stock charging icon pops up but then the phone stops charging and shuts off. (It will charge correctly some times)
These things don't just happen if I press the power button. I used a custom app to turn the phone off without the power button and the problems still occurred.
Things I've tried:
1) Replacing the battery.
2) Switching chargers.
3) Leaving the phone on the charger for a while.
4) Taking the battery out for extended amounts of time.
5) Just leaving the phone alone for a while.
No, the power button isn't stuck... I don't think it is
I am aware that the motherboard might need replaced. However, most of the cases I read about involved the phone not turning on/charging at all. If I could get the phone into recovery mode I would clear the cache and see if that worked, if not I would just factory reset the phone. If I could get into download mode, I would flash a stock firmware and be done with it.
This is my second android phone and I've never had this problem before. I did my experimenting with my old Motorola Droid so I could make sure I knew what was safe with my S3 but apparently there is something wrong.
I greatly appreciate any and all help and please do help me
[EDIT #1]
I began hitting the power button against a hard surface and 1 out of 7 times it works. Perhaps the button is stuck.
[EDIT #2]
I am now able to press the power button without the phone turning off. I will still make a back up and sync all of my important media and prepare to have to factory reset and flash a new ROM.
OK so 15min ago my phone was working fine.
I plugged it into my computer via USB to I could copy some videos and my PC didn't detect it so I rebooted the phone to see if that would help....
From that point on, it doesn't go past the initial "Samsung" screen. Well, it sort of does... regardless of any button combinations I press while booting up it always goes into a bright write and green screen that isn't normal. It is some sort of ghosted or washed out image.
From there the only thing it responds to is a forced reboot and it loops back to this again.
I've tried every button combo available and they don't respond. I cannot get to the download menu or the recovery menu so I can't reload the ROM or the TWRP recovery.
I've never seen anything like this in over 10 years of rooting phones... and the worst part is that I wasn't making any changes, just doing a reboot.
Any ideas of the problem?
I have an S6 that's not rooted. It is model SM-G920R4 from US cellular. It just downloaded and installed a new android version on it's own. I don't know what the new version was going to be. When I checked to see if it was done the screen was off and unresponsive. I tried doing a reset but it didn't work so I plugged it into an outlet and the grey battery with a bolt comes on but no green like its not charging. It still would not turn on so I left it for an hour but still no change. I booted into download mode but not having a file to run I just chose the restart option which took me right back to battery screen. I cannot get into recovery mode at all as it just stays on the battery screen. These are all the options I know to try. Not being able to get into recovery mode makes me think I'm out of options. If anybody could let me know if there's anything else I can do I would appreciate it.
I just tried to get into download mode again and it will not go into that screen. After a couple secs the battery disappears like its going to go into the download screen but it never does. If I let go of the buttons it goes back to the battery.
Not certain but try to let your phone discharge. Even on the battery screen it is bound to run out.
Other things you can try is to plug it into wall outlet and hold ~30 seconds the power button and see if it power offs and then start the device again without charger on it.
I dunno how it's done in the US but if you still have warranty bring it back and check if they can fix it.
If their is a TWRP for your version I suggest you download it and attempt to get into download mode to flash it and then try to get into recovery mode. Otherwise download official firmware and flash that through odin and download mode.