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.
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I am on jelly bean's build and want to get back to stock because I fear my phone may be on its last legs and I can't send it to verizon in this state. When I try to go into recovery mode so I can restore it, it just hangs and stops. I have to then take out the battery and when I put it back in it turns on(and usually tries to go back into recovery mode). When it is in download mode so I can just odin back to stock it turns off when I plug in the cable. I have a feeling something is wrong with the power button, because sometimes it doesnt do anything when I press it but acts like i long pressed it after a few seconds of not touching it. And when i turn the screen off with the power button, it turns back on after about a second. every time. I don't know what to do! can anybody help me?! Thank you in advance!
So my phone was acting up a bit (Synergy) so I decided to boot into recovery to wipe Cache. Well, phone failed to do so and now it will not boot bck up. I tried holding the volume down, home, andpower buttons and it looks like it wants to go into download mode (I see the warning with the android guy) but then the screen goes black and the phone is off. Even if I try to boot it regularly, the screen/phone shuts off after just a few seconds- It sows the Galaxy S3 logo for a second and then shuts off. I am at a loss because I can't get the phone to stay on long enough to boot up or even go into recovery/download mode. A few side notes: the phone starts automatically every time I put the battery back in, the battery was at around 75% when this started, I use TWRP for recovery. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I just hope I do't have to send it out for Jtag. Thanks in advance!!
Matt
Update: The phone will turn on only with the SD card removed. I guess I need to start looking into that issue.
Just some minutes ago my S7 froze because of Focus Gallery App. I don't exactly know what it did but the phone did not respond any more.
So pressing the power button did not bring back the phone either. After searching for a bit I found a way to simulate a bettery disconnect by pressing Volume Down + Power Button.
The Phone came back up and displayed the initial boot logo. Also the blue LED is on. But nothing happens from here on. I do not come to the "Samsung" boot animation and the phone simply
does nothing. Retriying Volume Down + Power Button doesn't seem to help too. I tryed all button combinations but nothing brings the phone back.
I also cannot enter the recovery menu. So no chance to reset to default settings.
I am running a stock Android on the phone. Nothing was done by me. No custom ROM, no root, just plain Samsung Android.
Is there sill something I can do?
Edit: I just got into whats seems to be ODIN Mode??? Can I do something from here?
Oddly this happened to me last night although I may have inadvertently done it. But the only way I was able to get my phone functioning again was reflashing the OS to the phone.
How did you manage to get the phone into Odin mode? I'm having the same issue with the phone being totally unresponsive but the blue LED on.
if you can reboot your phone with the VOL Down/Power, when the screen goes black, quickly press and hold VOL Up, Home and Power. it should enter recovery. or hold Vol down, Home and Power to enter the download screen.
I have the S7 Edge (rooted, custom ROM) and it's running fine. My girlfriend's regular S7 is having the same issue though.
When she plugged it in to charge last night, she checked it a few minutes later at which point the phone had (started to) reboot. The blue notification LED was on and the screen had frozen at the 'SA' from the 'SAMSUNG' startup logo. Forced a reboot with down+power, resulting in just the blue LED (no logo this time). Phone was unresponsive (couldn't force a reboot again) so left the battery to drain overnight. The phone is completely dead today even after charging - no LED, no boot, no anything.
I'm not sure if she had the phone scheduled to perform an update overnight and it froze halfway through, but that would be my first guess. So far, no fix.
I rebooted my phone just now and instead of booting back up it only boots to recovery. I did a fresh rom install but it won't boot.
I had noticed that the volume down button had been acting up recently. So, I think the volume down is pressed down constantly forcing the phone to recovery. I think this may have been caused by the really humid environment I'm currently in, however, before rebooting the phone was working relatively fine apart from the unresponsive volume down.
Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot to the rom in this situation?
please check this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBv_95ZCDvc
and see if it helps.
dud3me said:
I rebooted my phone just now and instead of booting back up it only boots to recovery. I did a fresh rom install but it won't boot.
I had noticed that the volume down button had been acting up recently. So, I think the volume down is pressed down constantly forcing the phone to recovery. I think this may have been caused by the really humid environment I'm currently in, however, before rebooting the phone was working relatively fine apart from the unresponsive volume down.
Is there anyway I can force the phone to boot to the rom in this situation?
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That's a good idea--disabling the vol down button, and there may be a way.
I'm thinking you could pop the cover and clean out around the button--maybe unjam it if it's jammed. Maybe it could be lubed with a very light lubricant? Never heard of anyone lubing their phone buttons, I don't see why not.
Greetings, I'll try to keep it short. My device is a Zenfone 7 Pro (ZS671KS)
I was using the phone normally and then for some reason it got stuck and I had to perform a "holding the power button" force shutdown to get out of it. The same thing has happened a few times before and it always boots back to normal. This time however, happened after I just downloaded and installed the latest firmware update when the phone was in its "waiting for reboot" state.
It has been bricked ever since and holding the power button will just send it into a boot loop (a brief vibration every once in a while). Whatever I do nothing will show, no logo no LED indicator light or anything like that. All black. Holding volume up or down + power also don't do anything. Vibration is the only response I am getting.
The phone itself was not modified in any way, it was never rooted, didn't have a custom firmware and stuff. Is there anything I can try to save it and all the data inside (data being my priority) before I give up and admit defeat?
Don't think I've see anything quite like it before, so any idea is appreciated.