like title says, when I try to enter download mode it just goes black again like it's booting and nothing happens. I thought it might be a bad power button but when I went back to stock with Odin a few months ago it was working fine (power button problem but could still get to download).. so I think it might have been the rom (carbon 4.3)
I've been running Carbonrom 4.3 nightlies and they've been ok but then the power button problem started coming back up, and last night when I went back to stock again it was fine, the power button worked fine until I flashed a nightly I knew would work back from Sept. Now I can boot up the phone, the power button does NOT work, and when I try to reboot to recovery or download mode it just goes black and nothing happens like it's restarting. Taking the battery out and plugging to my PC does nothing, the red notification light comes on and then goes off.. Odin never sees it
Only thing I know to do now is let the batter drain all the way down and see what happens, but for now I can't even Odin back to stock. Any ideas at all?
little bit of an update: I was able to finally get into download mode by removing the plastic power button, booting normally and shutting it down completely, and then using the power-down-home combo.... after going back to stock via Odin, the power button works perfectly.. gonna reroot and try to update to 4.3 gradually
after 4 days of perfectly running Liquidsmooth rom 2.37 (4.3.1) the power button is acting up again so I removed the button completely again and just won't use it, seems to be working at the moment
if anyone knows a way to fix this besides taking it in for repair please post
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I did this update to froyo before this and nothing happen. This time before the update finished, the power supply of my desktop suddenly turn off. everything goes to zero. i tried to restart my phone, but the screen still "downloading". I have to force it to off by pull out the battery.
when i try to turn on my phone, it failed. no screen at all. i pressed everything but still cannot on.
Please help. I'm using Odin Downloader.
Can the phone get into download mode ?
Press vol down and power while it is turned off
You should get a download mode screen
Flash a stock rom with odin
Sry but will provide links when on pc
i've tried everything vol+up+dwn+pwr.. all cannot switch on..
izta94 said:
i've tried everything vol+up+dwn+pwr.. all cannot switch on..
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does vol down + power + home(just the three) work
if yes
flash a stock rom from samfirmware.com(if you remember which one you had you can flash that back)
Even if the key combo i gave doesnt work
Connect your g3 to charger and let it charge for a while
If you get some icon (battery ) there can be some hope for recovering your device
You told it displays no screen so probably its a brick
Best would be to go to a samsung service center(if you have warranty) and make up a story(phone switched off on call and then this happened etc. etc.)
My power button decides to become unresponsive.
So I tried to unroot my phone and bring it back to a stock image and when I go into download mode, 2 seconds later, it turns off. :crying:
I try another method by using mobile odin to see if that helps. Tried to flash the stock image and it tried to reboot to Recovery mode. Nothing. It stays in a black screen after the samsung galaxy s3 logo. After pulling the battery, it tries to reboot to recovery again and still, a black screen. The only way to stop it from booting to recovery is to set it back to download mode. I hold the power button and it restarts. ( The power button seems to work when I try to go to recovery, download, power on.
I am running Cleanrom 6.0 R2.
I am in deep [email protected]#!. I do not want to go to verizon and notice my phone is rooted and I can't fix it without a huge bill.
Please help if possible
ok my blaze was rooted running a 4.3 rom (dirty unicorns) i was playing a game and all of a sudden it booted off, it booted back up and the samsung logo appears it goes black and vibrates. So i decided to revert back to stock and once i go to download mode menu and once i select to enter download mode it randomly reboots to the samsung logo and then it starts to vibrates again, i cant even get into recovery, what do i do, is it hard bricked?
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ok my blaze was rooted running a 4.3 rom (dirty unicorns) i was playing a game and all of a sudden it booted off, it booted back up and the samsung logo appears it goes black and vibrates. So i decided to revert back to stock and once i go to download mode menu and once i select to enter download mode it randomly reboots to the samsung logo and then it starts to vibrates again, i cant even get into recovery, what do i do, is it hard bricked?
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If it just froze and rebooted the recovery should be fine.
Pull the battery for a minute. Insert it, then hold both volumes down together (the whole rocker), then hold the power button until it vibrates then release the power button. Continue to hold the volumes until the recovery is up. Restore a backup or do a clean reflash.
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If it just froze and rebooted the recovery should be fine.
Pull the battery for a minute. Insert it, then hold both volumes down together (the whole rocker), then hold the power button until it vibrates then release the power button. Continue to hold the volumes until the recovery is up. Restore a backup or do a clean reflash.
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Thats the thing, it doesnt even get to recoveryit just vibrates after seeing the samsung boot logo , ive looked around the internet and other people have had this issue as well with the s2, i know that the phone isnt completely dead though, i just dont know what to do, i did nothing and all of a sudden this just happened
Happened to me, I had to it replaced... Does it constantly reboot and vibrate non stop?
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Happened to me, I had to it replaced... Does it constantly reboot and vibrate non stop?
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Exactly, all i need is download mode but when i enter it it vibrate loops after a press volume up.
when i enter download mode i see a blue screen then it boots and vibrates, why is it doing that
When the screen turns blue, does it start off black, and then start becoming pixelated and end up blue? Or does it just turn blue immediately? I had the same issue where I bricked my phone while I was using 4.3, and tried reverting back to stock... Sometimes, you cannot get into download mode if the phone is plugged in or not plugged in... Try both ways to see if you get any different results! Also try removing the battery for 30 seconds and then putting it back in... When you go back to stock, make sure it is ICS and not GB! You only get stuck in a boot loop if you do GB!
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Hard brick won't boot at all. Even though it's not booting properly it still boots which means there is hope. Try going in to download mode plugged into USB with the battery pulled. If it works Odin back to stock. If you get stuck in a boot loop after flashing stock, don't panic. Just boot to recovery and wipe your cache's and reboot. Let us know if you need anything or resolve the issue.
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Hello,
I just want to check on the best way to get my phone back to stock before sending back. The phone is on now but I don't want to risk turning it off and not getting it back on in it's rooted state with a custom ROM. If I do a re-boot and hold down on the volume with the menu down will it go into download mode? Can someone check without using the power button?
I see the another option is the mobile odin. The last option could be to flash stock rom, unroot, lock bootloader. I want to minimize risk here.
Thanks
I think I am SOL now. I tried to boot into download it kept turning off. I pulled the battery and it came back on but every time I get to download mode it turned off. SO then I try the mobile oden and what does that do? Tried to boot into oden and it flashed it's own kernel so it won't boot fully until it finishes it's flash. I try to boot into recovery and it just turns off again the same as download because the power button is stuck on.
I took the phone apart and pulled the outside power button out and put the battery back in and it immediately boots to download mode and turns off again because its stuck on.
Worst part as soon as you put in the battery it boots to download and it says custom right on it. Any other ideas? If I disable the power button being stuck on how will I turn it on? Man, 4 droid phones rooted and I think this might be the one that takes me down
Mine is stuck, so when I put the battery in it will turn on automatically. I flash about once or twice a month so what i do is pull out the battery and as soon as i put it back in I hold the button combo to which i want to go to. Vol up and home for recovery or volume down for download mode. You should check out the unroot method in the Stickies
I got it now.
Edit: PROBLEM SOLVED! However I'll keep this up just in case anyone runs into a similar issue, I'll go ahead and quote the post that brought my tablet to life. As simple as it may be, it helped!
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Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
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Okay, so in case I'm missing something, I'll keep it quick and say my tablet (WiFI version) wont boot to the system, and no button combo will boot it into the bootloader. It goes straight to the nvidia screen no matter what, and won't get past the boot animation.
In case that doesn't cover it, and more info is needed, I'll give the complete rundown of all that happened.
I just got my tablet a few days ago, however I immedietly unlocked the bootloader, and rooted it, and was fine with that for a while. Eventually I got sick of Lollipop due to lack of support for some Xposed modules and other apps that didn't support 5.0. So I decided to boot into recovery and flash THIS CarbonROM. But it didn't boot past the CarbonROM logo, so I forced a shutdown and booted into recovery (vol down + power) and figured I had to flash the KitKat OTA, then the ROM. So I flashed THIS OTA onto my tablet in CWM, then after booting I booted back into CWM and flashed CarbonROM. It booted just fine. I then went into ES File Explorer and deleted the system apps I didn't want (calender, the stock launcher, etc.) and it worked fine. I then booted back into CWM to clear cache and Dalvik Cache, to clean up any app data that might have been left behind. After booting it stayed on the "Android is upgrading" screen for almost 20 minutes. So I decided to hard reboot it. After doing that, I'm where I am now. The tablet won't boot past the CarbonROM logo, and although I can manually power it down, no matter what I do, I can't boot it into bootloader. I have gotten to the bootloader from a powered off state plenty of times before, in fact it's my preferred method of doing so. But now it skips straight to the Nvidia screen, followed by the CarbonROM screen, and never boots.
Also, I had just flashed the ROM, and had never enabled adb debugging.
Any possible solution would be greatly appreciated, as like I said I just bought the tablet days ago.
Try connecting it to your pc, boot it up, and try running "adb reboot revovery" after it's been running for a bit
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Try connecting it to your pc, boot it up, and try running "adb reboot revovery" after it's been running for a bit
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I seem to get a "error: device offline" message when I try that.
I have used adb and fastboot before this issue so I know my drivers and adb files are just fine :/
Edit: When I unplug the usb from the tablet it makes the low battery noise. I think it's booted to the system but stuck at the CarbonROM logo for some reason. I did delete the stock launcher without installing a new one...
Edit: Since I had just flashed the ROM, I had not yet gone into developer options and enabled adb debugging. I had only done it before I flashed the ROM.
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I seem to get a "error: device offline" message when I try that.
I have used adb and fastboot before this issue so I know my drivers and adb files are just fine :/
Edit: When I unplug the usb from the tablet it makes the low battery noise. I think it's booted to the system but stuck at the CarbonROM logo for some reason. I did delete the stock launcher without installing a new one...
Edit: Since I had just flashed the ROM, I had not yet gone into developer options and enabled adb debugging. I had only done it before I flashed the ROM.
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Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
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Hold the power button until it turns off. After it turns off, press and hold volume down, then BRIEFLY press the power button while still holding volume down.
You can't really hold them together sometimes, I don't know why.
Hold volume down, press power and release, while holding volume down. Should go into bootloader then.
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I literally love you right now.:laugh:
Seriously thank you, I thought I was screwed. I just wonder why it works like this. I'll have keep it in mind for the future haha, thanks:good: