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What the hell did i do?

Okay, so i had Infused 2.3.0 (i think that was the number, it's the latest one anyway). I followed the instructions to the T. I had no issues.
About 3 or 4 days later i woke up and my phone had 1% battery. I sent a text, and then locked the phone. I came back to plug it in, and tried to see if it had any battery. None, it was dead. No biggie. I plug it in, and i get the circle loading thing. Then the battery symbol appears (charging). Then the phone goes black and the circle loading thing appears again. Then it keeps restarting. and going back to the circle loading thing. Over... and Over... Then i tried charging it for a while to see if the battery was just really low. No dice.
I put my girlfriends battery from her infuse 4g and it had 90%. Did the same thing. Circle loading thing, restart, circle loading thing, etc. Then i tried to put it into recovery. No dice, it would just keep restarting. Sometimes the Samsung logo would appear, and then it would just restart samsung, black screen, samsung, black screen, then eventually back to the circle.
I got it in red recovery ONCE, i was able to scroll down twice, and then the phone restarted. I couldn't get it back into red recovery.
I thought i had bricked my phone somehow. So i tried to use GTGs unbrick. I loaded it up fine (i'd done it with my girlfriends phone before to restore it to stock). It took me about 15 tries to get it into download mode. It was in download mode for long enough so that the program recognized it, and it started the download to restore it, then the phone turned off.
Now the phone won't even turn on. I can't put it in download mode, i can't put it into recovery, i can't get it to do ANYTHING.
What the hell did i do? What caused the original issue?
HELP

Does your phone still have warranty?

What the hell didn't you do.

Ok well first of all it is not Infused 2.3 it is 2.2.3. Anyway that is not the point, did you have juice defender installed? I do not think it could have done anything, but maybe. What is the latest app/tweak/anything you installed? Finally, have you tried holding both volume buttons and power button when trying to turn it on? This problem you are having seems extremely odd. Try plugging it in.

eatjello said:
Okay, so i had Infused 2.3.0 (i think that was the number, it's the latest one anyway). I followed the instructions to the T. I had no issues.
About 3 or 4 days later i woke up and my phone had 1% battery. I sent a text, and then locked the phone. I came back to plug it in, and tried to see if it had any battery. None, it was dead. No biggie. I plug it in, and i get the circle loading thing. Then the battery symbol appears (charging). Then the phone goes black and the circle loading thing appears again. Then it keeps restarting. and going back to the circle loading thing. Over... and Over... Then i tried charging it for a while to see if the battery was just really low. No dice.
I put my girlfriends battery from her infuse 4g and it had 90%. Did the same thing. Circle loading thing, restart, circle loading thing, etc. Then i tried to put it into recovery. No dice, it would just keep restarting. Sometimes the Samsung logo would appear, and then it would just restart samsung, black screen, samsung, black screen, then eventually back to the circle.
I got it in red recovery ONCE, i was able to scroll down twice, and then the phone restarted. I couldn't get it back into red recovery.
I thought i had bricked my phone somehow. So i tried to use GTGs unbrick. I loaded it up fine (i'd done it with my girlfriends phone before to restore it to stock). It took me about 15 tries to get it into download mode. It was in download mode for long enough so that the program recognized it, and it started the download to restore it, then the phone turned off.
Now the phone won't even turn on. I can't put it in download mode, i can't put it into recovery, i can't get it to do ANYTHING.
What the hell did i do? What caused the original issue?
HELP
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Did you try your girlfriend's charged battery with the charger disconnected?

Sarius24 said:
Does your phone still have warranty?
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Yeah I'm going to try to take it to the ATT store tomorrow to see what they say.
Eddie Bombay said:
What the hell didn't you do.
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Thank you for the valuable contribution.
Ryanscool said:
Ok well first of all it is not Infused 2.3 it is 2.2.3. Anyway that is not the point, did you have juice defender installed? I do not think it could have done anything, but maybe. What is the latest app/tweak/anything you installed? Finally, have you tried holding both volume buttons and power button when trying to turn it on? This problem you are having seems extremely odd. Try plugging it in.
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2.2.3, thanks. I was too lazy to look it up. No, I didn't have juice defender. I used Lookout, that's all.
The latest thing I installed was the 2.2.3 update for Infused. I updated Pandora, and that's all.
Yes, i've done that with the volume buttons.
Entropy512 said:
Did you try your girlfriend's charged battery with the charger disconnected?
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Yes. Won't turn on.

Well, best thing you can do now is see what ATT can do about it. The worst that can happen is they say they can not do anything, which you then can keep trying the ultimate unbrick over again. This helped someone on an earlier thread.

Same thing happened to me. Take the battery out. Make sure USB cable is unplugged. Hold down both up and down volume buttons plug in USB into ur phone and PC and put battery back in. This will put you in download mode and it will stick do u can return to stock. Good luck
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jmatt78 said:
Same thing happened to me. Take the battery out. Make sure USB cable is unplugged. Hold down both up and down volume buttons plug in USB into ur phone and PC and put battery back in. This will put you in download mode and it will stick do u can return to stock. Good luck
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I'll try this again, but it didn't work last time. No matter what i did.
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Tried again multiple times. It just won't turn on.

I think you have a hardware failure of some sort... Take it back to AT&T for warrany service.
You probably didn't do anything to it - just bad luck and coincidence.

Entropy512 said:
I think you have a hardware failure of some sort... Take it back to AT&T for warrany service.
You probably didn't do anything to it - just bad luck and coincidence.
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this is exactly what i thought. and what i'm hoping. I'll let you guys know what happens tomorrow at ATT.

let me know what ATT says and how your approach was to them.
I just got my phonw into a boot loop ...
Was thinking if nothing works just play dumb with ATT.

Evanescense said:
let me know what ATT says and how your approach was to them.
I just got my phonw into a boot loop ...
Was thinking if nothing works just play dumb with ATT.
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I'm at att right now waiting. Ill let you know what I say and what happens.
What rom were you using?

They're replacing it. No questions asked. The phone wont turn on. So they said its a hardware failure
The guy was really nice. Didn't ask me if I did anything to it
He tried everything I did. Download mode. New battery. Nadda

got my replacement today. all is well. now to root

[Q] Symptoms of a bricked phone? (related to all skyrocket users)

background info:
I am (or was) running MHX superlite 3.0 rom with romracers stockish 0.3 kernel.
UCLA3 modem and radio.
So today my phone decides to restart itself and never will load past the "first two"
samsung screens.
Once these "two" samsung logos pass by, the screen turns blank (not on)
and starts to vibrate with 1 second intervals.
The only way for it to stop is if I pull the battery.
Heres the weird part.
I tried to ODIN back to stock...once I put my phone into DOWNLOAD MODE.
The little android guy that says DOWNLOADING "dont turn off" will show for a millisecond and then the screen will shut off and start the vibrations. ODIN will not recognize the device either
So what I have is a phone that wont load past the samsung logos if the power button is pressed
AND
Download mode works, but the screen will turn blank and vibrations start buzzing.
My phone is having seizures. The only way to stop the vibrations is by pulling the battery.
I have accepted the fact that the phone may be done for.
It was a great 4 months together. tear*

Well, if you can't get it sorted out there's always this! Unless the hardware is busted, but maybe he can fix that too??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkJQAbwZjRk

Did you try booting into recovery mode instead of odin?

Is that an overclock kernel? If so sounds like may be set to high. And did u choose set on boot.

silver03wrx said:
Is that an overclock kernel? If so sounds like may be set to high. And did u choose set on boot.
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No, its not. Can't OC or UV. It can only UC.
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NexusMod 4.0
Romracer 0.3

if u can boot into cwm flash darkside

OP... what rom/kernel/modem were you running before MHX-SuperLite? and what wipe process did you use prior to MHX flash?

Can you get into recovery and restore a backup?
If you don't have a backup and can get into recovery, try wiping data/cache, then go into mounts/storage and format system, data, and cache, then go to advanced and wipe Dalvic cache. Then power down and try to Odin back to stock again.
If this doesn't work, try another data cable or usb port on your machine (or another pc if this doesn't work). Maybe communication is getting lost due to bad usb connection...
EDIT: Are you saying you tried to Odin even though Odin wasn't recognizing your phone? That could be part of the problem. Try re-installing the Samsung drivers and see if Odin sees it then.
If you can get into download mode you aren't hard bricked yet...

I think he is saying that Odin recognizes his phone but his phone goes black before he can't start the reflash right?
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727

Did we lose the OP'r? I was just getting ready to flash this ROM (MHX) but Jooosty has thrown up a curveball. Hope you get it resolved.

Okay sorry for late response.
But i was running skyice speed before hand.
Ive only used CWM to wipe data.
No OC or UV on this kernel.
Cant get into cwm or recovery. The screen turns blank before i can do anything at all.
Ive concluded its most likely a internal hardware failure maybe...
Going to try to sell for parts

DoctorQMM said:
Did we lose the OP'r? I was just getting ready to flash this ROM (MHX) but Jooosty has thrown up a curveball. Hope you get it resolved.
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MHX is great. The rom has nothing to do with it i believe

Jooosty said:
Okay sorry for late response.
But i was running skyice speed before hand.
Ive only used CWM to wipe data.
No OC or UV on this kernel.
Cant get into cwm or recovery. The screen turns blank before i can do anything at all.
Ive concluded its most likely a internal hardware failure maybe...
Going to try to sell for parts
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I wouldn't give up just yet. I have never seen an instance of a hard brick where you could get into download mode. Try using Odin from another machine (preferably not a laptop).
If it's internal hardware failure then you have a defective product that is covered under warranty. Call support and get them to replace it (as a last resort of course--I honestly think you'll be able to get Odin to work if the drivers are properly installed and you have a solid usb connection).
EDIT: If you insist on selling it, please pm me so I can make an offer!

skrambled said:
I wouldn't give up just yet. I have never seen an instance of a hard brick where you could get into download mode. Try using Odin from another machine (preferably not a laptop).
If it's internal hardware failure then you have a defective product that is covered under warranty. Call support and get them to replace it (as a last resort of course--I honestly think you'll be able to get Odin to work if the drivers are properly installed and you have a solid usb connection).
EDIT: If you insist on selling it, please pm me so I can make an offer!
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He already said Odin/connection isn't the problem. His phone won't stay on long enough for the communication to be made. According to what he said, it has nothing to do with machine/drivers/cable. He needs a way of keep the phone on long enough to make the connection, or somehow communicate with it another way. Unfortunately, I have no ideas. Although, I really hope someone does. That RussianBear guy seems to be onto something with communicating with the emmc without the phone being on... or something like that.

heres a link to a video update!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/254/oww.mp4/

Jooosty said:
heres a link to a video update!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/254/oww.mp4/
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Man that is so weird. Random, but have you tried leaving it plugged in and charging for a few hours? Haha I just can't think of anything else.

plwalsh88 said:
Man that is so weird. Random, but have you tried leaving it plugged in and charging for a few hours? Haha I just can't think of anything else.
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Or even a external battery charger maybe there is just enough juice to turn on and then dies
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727

The battery is fine. Wouldnt keep rebooting if otherwise. O well.
Just bought a captivate to feed my android in me
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA

DUDE!!!! mine just started doing the EXACT same issue....SOB....
no cwm, no download, just reboots...i acn see cwm lettering for like 0.1ms then it reboots, and reboots every second...download mode, as soon as I choose continue, it goes into reboot loop.....
this is exactly what happened when it happened to my phone......
I went to hit the power button to lock the screen, was listening ot music on power amp. instead of screen locking, the power menu came up...hit back, and tried ot lock screen again? screen went black, 2 vibrates back to back....then saw sgh-i727r boot logo, then black and 1 second vibrate intervals.....
got it sitting in rice right now in case it got wet...battery litmus paper is good...only thing it may have gotten warm today, was working outside and it was 26° celcius....
I did drop it about 1.5 months ago and changed my screen about 3 weeks ago...unfortunately I broke the old lcd when removing the screen, I guess I didn't heat the glue enough...so I can't pop it back in and test to see if related...
I may take apart my phone in a bit and see if any liquid has leaked in...but I didn't get wet....
i think i'm going to order a gt-i9100 again, as I miss that phone.....

xtechx said:
DUDE!!!! mine just started doing the EXACT same issue....SOB....
no cwm, no download, just reboots...i acn see cwm lettering for like 0.1ms then it reboots, and reboots every second...download mode, as soon as I choose continue, it goes into reboot loop.....
this is exactly what happened when it happened to my phone......
I went to hit the power button to lock the screen, was listening ot music on power amp. instead of screen locking, the power menu came up...hit back, and tried ot lock screen again? screen went black, 2 vibrates back to back....then saw sgh-i727r boot logo, then black and 1 second vibrate intervals.....
got it sitting in rice right now in case it got wet...battery litinus paper is good...only thing it may have gotten warm today, was working outside and it was 26° celcius....
I did drop it about 1.5 months ago and changed my screen about 3 weeks ago...unfortunately I broke the old lcd when removing the screen, I guess I didn't heat the glue enough...so I can't pop it back in and test to see if related...
I may take apart my phone in a bit and see if any liquid has leaked in...but I didn't get wet....
i think i'm going to order a gt-i9100 again, as I miss that phone.....
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What ROM were you on man?
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Faux 010m

Emancipation boot loop

Running Emancipation A1 for weeks now. Love it. Runs smooth, support is top notch. All of a sudden, I'm stuck at the Samsung logo boot loop. I can't even get into CWM recovery mode to wipe and reflash. Didn't download or change any settings.
Downloading necessary files to go back to stock. In the meantime, if anybody has any suggestions, I'm all ears. Going to be a long night I guess.

If you used a crt on mod, the last 5-10 pages on the main Eman thread may address this problem.

Thanks. No, I didn't install the CRT on mod that was provided. Very strange, because the rom has been running flawless for quite some time. I'm downloading the Heimdall one click file now.
A little nervous at this point. Yes, I've flashed a few Rom's, and flashed a few modems, but never had any problems.

Holding volume up and down Anne pore won't get you to recovery?
If that's the case, you might need to get into download mode and start from scratch via heimdal or Odin

Yeah, can't get into recovery holding up/down volume buttons. I downloaded heimdall, and went back to stock. Not I'm experiencing same problem. Phone continuously rebooting. Can't connect or even get into download mode. Also tried a different USB cord, just to make sure. No difference.
Yikes.

Well this pretty much sucks. I think I went back to stock. The phone booted up briefly enough for me to go into settings and see that it was running a stock version of the software. What it was I can't remember. Probably 2.3.6 just like the post says it will revert to. However, I cannot do anything when I power on now. The phone is stuck in at the Samsung logo and will just flash and flash and flash. Can't get into recovery or download mode. Nothing.

Lavman72 said:
Well this pretty much sucks. I think I went back to stock. The phone booted up briefly enough for me to go into settings and see that it was running a stock version of the software. What it was I can't remember. Probably 2.3.6 just like the post says it will revert to. However, I cannot do anything when I power on now. The phone is stuck in at the Samsung logo and will just flash and flash and flash. Can't get into recovery or download mode. Nothing.
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is the battery charged?
do you have a jig to force a download mode?
may have to go back thru th q/a thread for similar problems...there's quite a few

If its doing that, it could be a hardware issue. Might need to take it in if you are still under warrantee.

qkster said:
is the battery charged?
do you have a jig to force a download mode?
may have to go back thru th q/a thread for similar problems...there's quite a few
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battery charged. in fact I have a couple batteries charged, just in case.
not sure what you mean by whether I have a jig to force a download mode.
I'll search through the threads. I'm pretty fed up at this point. Also tired, which isn't helping.

NunHugger said:
If its doing that, it could be a hardware issue. Might need to take it in if you are still under warrantee.
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I got the Infuse the first weekend it came out, which I think was last May. So I think I'm technically under the 1 year warranty. I also have the Insurance on it. Not sure if that will help.

Well, this didn't have a very happy ending. After playing around with the phone last night trying to revert back to Stock, the phone suddenly stopped working. Wouldn't turn on at all. Tried different batteries, different USB cords, nothing. Replacement on it's way from AT&T free of charge (since I was still under warranty). Refurbished no doubt.

Lavman72 said:
Well, this didn't have a very happy ending. After playing around with the phone last night trying to revert back to Stock, the phone suddenly stopped working. Wouldn't turn on at all. Tried different batteries, different USB cords, nothing. Replacement on it's way from AT&T free of charge (since I was still under warranty). Refurbished no doubt.
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The ending sounds happy to me. This issue could have happened out of your warrantee...that would have been sad. Hope your are back up and running soon.

Yes, it's bittersweet. Because I really had the phone functioning well and looking the way I wanted. But like you said, it was under warranty, so I can't be all that upset. Just trying to make it through the 4-5 days without having a phone.

Bricked My GS3

I used this method to root, flash CWM Recovery, and unlocked the bootloader.
http://youtu.be/6-tQ05Zo_9U
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1974114
Everything went well. I then flashed "The Executioner 2" Rom. Again, everything was fine I was running the Rom for about 2/3 hours. All of a sudden, I was texting and boom, my phone turns to a black screen. Keep in mind at this time my phone is at about 18% battery when it happened. I managed to boot into CWM. I was wiping everything like I would if I was gonna flash a rom + go to restore back up. I factory/data wipe, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, BOOM black screen again. Couldn't boot up normally. Tried to get into CWM, no go, just vibrating and black screen. Tried getting into download mode, no go just vibrating with black screen. Now my phone ain't even charging if I have the USB in. It seems completely dead. Any ideas or do I have to tell Verizon I lost my phone?

It is out of battery. Let the thing charge.

con247 said:
It is out of battery. Let the thing charge.
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I have my phone sitting and the charger in. There's no red LED or any battery icon to show that it's charging. You know how normally when you turn your phone off, there's still something that indicates you that the phone is charging when you have it plugged in. In my case, it's just a black screen. It's like the phone is dead?

this happened to me once, it was the battery dead and no led when plugged in or anything. Let it sit on the charger for like 30 mins then unplug it and try to boot it.

x714x said:
this happened to me once, it was the battery dead and no led when plugged in or anything. Let it sit on the charger for like 30 mins then unplug it and try to boot it.
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Should I try to boot up into custom recovery or download/odin mode? If it's possible I want to fix the brick and just flash my phone back to stock for now. The last thing I want is to have a bricked device. I saved up, sold my Razr Maxx, and paid full price off contract for this phone. Yep, all that down the drain if my phone is bricked. I really appreciate the replies guys, it makes me feel better whether my phone can be saved or not.

I can't remember if it's that rom or not, I look at so many threads but there have been a few reports of major battery drops. Search the thread.
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see if you can borrow somebody else battery

Thank Me Later said:
Should I try to boot up into custom recovery or download/odin mode? If it's possible I want to fix the brick and just flash my phone back to stock for now. The last thing I want is to have a bricked device. I saved up, sold my Razr Maxx, and paid full price off contract for this phone. Yep, all that down the drain if my phone is bricked. I really appreciate the replies guys, it makes me feel better whether my phone can be saved or not.
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This had also happened to me before, buy after charging it still wouldn't boot normally.
I had to boot into recovery and then select reboot device, hasn't happened since.
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!

kintwofan said:
This had also happened to me before, buy after charging it still wouldn't boot normally.
I had to boot into recovery and then select reboot device, hasn't happened since.
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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My phone won't boot up at all!! Can't boot into recovery, can't boot into download/odin mode either. And now there's no vibration. It seems dead. I didn't do anything wrong, the Rom was running fine. All of a sudden black screen and it started being stupid the way I said in the OP.

Thank Me Later said:
My phone won't boot up at all!! Can't boot into recovery, can't boot into download/odin mode either. And now there's no vibration. It seems dead. I didn't do anything wrong, the Rom was running fine. All of a sudden black screen and it started being stupid the way I said in the OP.
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Well I would try to get my hands on another battery and see if it will work then. If not and it really just died take it to Verizon and tell them you were sending a text and it shut off. That sound like hardware failure to me.
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!

You wiping it while it ran out of juice for the 2nd time probably didn't help.

con247 said:
You wiping it while it ran out of juice for the 2nd time probably didn't help.
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I know. At that time I didn't think of the battery, I was just in a panic to get out of the problem.

I think I got somebody to barrow me their GS3 battery tomorrow. IF, the phone lets me boot into anything, what should I do? I don't know which method I should use for fixing the soft brick because there's more than one? I just want to fix it and odin back to complete stock unrooted again.

Reflash your ROM and once it boots up go back to factory rom
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Thank Me Later said:
I think I got somebody to barrow me their GS3 battery tomorrow. IF, the phone lets me boot into anything, what should I do? I don't know which method I should use for fixing the soft brick because there's more than one? I just want to fix it and odin back to complete stock unrooted again.
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Try to go straight to download mode and follow section 5 here using the stock jb image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28530394
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!

Happened to me too..Pretty sure its the battery. When mine shut off, I tried different chargers and nothing.. I tried a combo of things like pulling battery while charging and just leaving the battery out for a couple minutes and then plugging it in till you get a red charging light. When it lights up , let it charge and then restore. Good luck..
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kintwofan said:
Try to go straight to download mode and follow section 5 here using the stock jb image
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28530394
If I helped you in some way.... pass on the favor and help the next person!
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If it does let me boot up with a new battery I WILL do this. Thank you!
elmer1500 said:
Happened to me too..Pretty sure its the battery. When mine shut off, I tried different chargers and nothing.. I tried a combo of things like pulling battery while charging and just leaving the battery out for a couple minutes and then plugging it in till you get a red charging light. When it lights up , let it charge and then restore. Good luck..
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I am hoping that it's just the battery being dead and not a hard brick on my phone. I don't understand what happened that made my device do this in the first place? Everything seemed fine. No hiccups when rooting, flashing, ect. I ran the rom for a good few hours. Out of no where BAM, black screen while I was texting?

Thank Me Later said:
If it does let me boot up with a new battery I WILL do this. Thank you!
I am hoping that it's just the battery being dead and not a hard brick on my phone. I don't understand what happened that made my device do this in the first place? Everything seemed fine. No hiccups when rooting, flashing, ect. I ran the rom for a good few hours. Out of no where BAM, black screen while I was texting?
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It misjudged the battery life (ie the percentage was wrong). Then it realized what was happening then shut off the device to protect the battery.

Thank Me Later said:
Should I try to boot up into custom recovery or download/odin mode? If it's possible I want to fix the brick and just flash my phone back to stock for now. The last thing I want is to have a bricked device. I saved up, sold my Razr Maxx, and paid full price off contract for this phone. Yep, all that down the drain if my phone is bricked. I really appreciate the replies guys, it makes me feel better whether my phone can be saved or not.
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Your phone isn't bricked....your battery is dead.
Let it charge with a WALL charger for at least 30-60 mins. Walk away. Come back, HOLD just the power button until it boots. Let go. Enjoy your "unbricked" device. Why would you want to go into Odin or CWM without even seeing if it boots? A hard brick wouldn't do anything. Just see what happens. If it bootloops or has constant system.ui closes you'll know it. Then go into recovery and either:
1) rewipe/reflash ROM
2) restore functional backup
Please change the title of this thread. You didn't brick. Your battery died. Lol. TW ROMs on this phone have been known to die with 18-23% on the battery gauge. 23 is my number It's happened to a few of us.
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As I let my phone sit with the charger in while I went to sleep, twisting and turning thinking F*****ck lol. A lot of you guys were right. It WAS my battery. I am now able to boot up into recovery

[Q] Cant get to DL or recovery modes but phone bootloops on homescreen

At the gym the other day i looked down at my phone, and it seemed to be turned off for some reason. This is the state its in now:
1. The phone is not responsive on battery, and the battery is fully charged.
2. Upon plugging the phone in to power, it has the charging animation.
3. When trying to go in to either dowbload or recovery modes, the respective preliminary screens show up, then the phone bootloops.
4. When booting normally (under power), everything seems normal and it can get to the lock screen. Then sometimes i can pull down the notification bar and go to settings, but other times it randomly bootloops. If i pull out the power, it turns off.
5. This is a replacement phone from verizon about two weeks ago. The last one had bad screen burn in.
Im rooted and unlocked and i was running jellybeans v19 ROM.
Im in Germany right now on a Vodafone prepaid SIM. When putting the Verizon SIM back in, the same things happen.
UPDATE 12/23/2013:
1. I was able to get into Recovery by quickly pressing reboot and reboot into recovery. From here I could get into Download Mode.
2. I first cleared my Dalvik & Cache and reflashed JellyBeans v19, then cleared Dalvik & Cache again. This did no solve any problems.
3. Next I flashed the Stock VRBMF1 Firmware through Odin, which also did not solve any problems.
4. Now I am downloading Root66 and following Hero's guide to unbricking a soft-bricked device.

usatf1290 said:
At the gym the other day i looked down at my phone, and it seemed to be turned off for some reason. This is the state its in now:
1. The phone is not responsive on battery, and the battery is fully charged.
2. Upon plugging the phone in to power, it has the charging animation.
3. When trying to go in to either dowbload or recovery modes, the respective preliminary screens show up, then the phone bootloops.
4. When booting normally (under power), everything seems normal and it can get to the lock screen. Then sometimes i can pull down the notification bar and go to settings, but other times it randomly bootloops. If i pull out the power, it turns off.
5. This is a replacement phone from verizon about two weeks ago. The last one had bad screen burn in.
Im rooted and unlocked and i was running jellybeans v19 ROM.
Im in Germany right now on a Vodafone prepaid SIM. When putting the Verizon SIM back in, the same things happen.
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Weird...
My first guess is something software related, I'd start by going back to stock mf1 or mb1 in this case and seeing if you can reproduce the problems. Just don't take the 4.3 update or you'll lock your bootloader.
If that doesn't work, then something is wrong with the phone, and it almost sounds like a bad power button but with some weird other symptoms. I'd send it back to Verizon to get another one of its still acting up.
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Weird...
My first guess is something software related, I'd start by going back to stock mf1 or mb1 in this case and seeing if you can reproduce the problems. Just don't take the 4.3 update or you'll lock your bootloader.
If that doesn't work, then something is wrong with the phone, and it almost sounds like a bad power button but with some weird other symptoms. I'd send it back to Verizon to get another one of its still acting up.
Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk 2
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Thanks for the response!
I would try to flash stock packages through Odin, but i cant get to download mode. Usb debugging is enabled.
Ill probably send it Verizon when i get back to the states, but I was wondering if i could do anything in the mean time.