My phone was working fine earlier, but today I was driving on the freeway in areas where service wasn't great, I had my data on and I was texting people. After a little bit my phone was warm and the screen went black, I pulled the battery and tried turning it back on, and it turned on went to the home screen then the screen went black again, I pulled the battery then the phone wouldn't turn on. I pulled the battery and let it sit for 20 or so minutes, put the battery back in, it turned on, then I turned off data and it worked for another 4 hours.
When we were done driving I turned on WiFi to check my data and the screen went black again, I pulled the battery again and let it sit, put the battery back in, pressed the button, and nothing. I've been playing with it a bit and the ribbon over the power button wasn't under one side, so I pushed it back in thinking it might fix it, but it's a no go.
My phone was on vipers 5.1.0, don't know the bootloader or radio.
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So I am at work and I charged my phone fully, then I unplugged it and put it in the drawer at my desk. I have pulled it out a couple of times for random things, but put it back in the drawer. I just heard it vibrate and assumed I got a text, but I opened it up and when I pulled out the phone it was warm, like I had been using intensively, but I haven't touched it for probably an hour or more. I tried to turn it on, but the screen is just black. The phone has shut itself off. Tried turning back on, screen stayed completely black, didn't turn on backlight or anything, and just vibrated quickly then stopped. If I hold down the power button it will vibrate about once every four seconds. Battery pulled, tried again. Same result.
Currently running Paranoid Android 1.9.5a Everything has been working fine, so I don't know what could have caused this. Seems like maybe some rogue app started eating all the battery and the phone is just out of juice? Something must have been running though to cause the heat... I tried plugging it in to charge, but the same result, no activity on the screen, but it vibrates once every few seconds. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks.
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Let the phone sit for a few minutes to cool down. Tried turning on again and it booted up into recovery. I selected to reboot. Everything went normally, booted through K-exec, got to the main screen only to be greeted with a battery warning 0% battery left then immediately turned off. The phone was unplugged for MAYBE 4 hours, most of the time just doing nothing (that I knew of) So something must have been eating away at the battery like crazy that I didn't realize for the past couple of hours. Any ideas guys?
Zool4nd3r said:
So I am at work and I charged my phone fully, then I unplugged it and put it in the drawer at my desk. I have pulled it out a couple of times for random things, but put it back in the drawer. I just heard it vibrate and assumed I got a text, but I opened it up and when I pulled out the phone it was warm, like I had been using intensively, but I haven't touched it for probably an hour or more. I tried to turn it on, but the screen is just black. The phone has shut itself off. Tried turning back on, screen stayed completely black, didn't turn on backlight or anything, and just vibrated quickly then stopped. If I hold down the power button it will vibrate about once every four seconds. Battery pulled, tried again. Same result.
Currently running Paranoid Android 1.9.5a Everything has been working fine, so I don't know what could have caused this. Seems like maybe some rogue app started eating all the battery and the phone is just out of juice? Something must have been running though to cause the heat... I tried plugging it in to charge, but the same result, no activity on the screen, but it vibrates once every few seconds. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks.
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Let the phone sit for a few minutes to cool down. Tried turning on again and it booted up into recovery. I selected to reboot. Everything went normally, booted through K-exec, got to the main screen only to be greeted with a battery warning 0% battery left then immediately turned off. The phone was unplugged for MAYBE 4 hours, most of the time just doing nothing (that I knew of) So something must have been eating away at the battery like crazy that I didn't realize for the past couple of hours. Any ideas guys?
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I'm having the same problem
I plugged my phone in last night and when I woke up today it was off. I pulled out the charging cord and held the power button with no effect. Thinking the cord may have slipped partly out and let the phone die, I plugged it back in and was greeted by the battery charging screen, showing full charge. I pressed the power button and the phone went black. On further investigation, it seems my press of the power button didn't have to do with it turning off, as whenever I plug it in it shows the full battery screen for a couple of seconds before turning off again. If I unplug it and plug it back in it just repeats this. I've reseated the battery, I've tried holding volume down and the power button, and nothing's changed the phone's behavior. The phone is completely stock, and never opened beyond the battery and card doors.
It's pretty old and I'm pretty sure I do have an upgrade available, so I'm not too upset if I have to buy a new phone, but I'd like to confirm that it is FUBAR before I go that far, and I'd like to be able to extract my data if possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
unhh said:
I plugged my phone in last night and when I woke up today it was off. I pulled out the charging cord and held the power button with no effect. Thinking the cord may have slipped partly out and let the phone die, I plugged it back in and was greeted by the battery charging screen, showing full charge. I pressed the power button and the phone went black. On further investigation, it seems my press of the power button didn't have to do with it turning off, as whenever I plug it in it shows the full battery screen for a couple of seconds before turning off again. If I unplug it and plug it back in it just repeats this. I've reseated the battery, I've tried holding volume down and the power button, and nothing's changed the phone's behavior. The phone is completely stock, and never opened beyond the battery and card doors.
It's pretty old and I'm pretty sure I do have an upgrade available, so I'm not too upset if I have to buy a new phone, but I'd like to confirm that it is FUBAR before I go that far, and I'd like to be able to extract my data if possible. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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If you have access to another battery, you could try that, but since you're seeing the full battery symbol I'm guessing that that's not the issue. You can always recover your sdcard data by putting it in a card reader, but the phone's apps, app data, and settings may be more difficult.
Well, turns out the problem was much less serious than I thought: my charging cord has bitten the dust. I'm not sure why I've been seeing the full battery, but when I took it to the AT&T store, the person who helped me plugged it in and it started right up. I just need to get a cable that's not my years-old piece of crap that came with the phone.
today i woke up like any other day, turned on my Infuse after having a fully charged battery and after doing my morning routine i went to work. on the car i did a random screen unlock, and lock (just to see the battery level), but when i get to work my phone didnt turn on; so i removed the battery thinking it froze, and when i tried to turn it back on after re-inserting the battery nothing happened. i tried plugging into the charger but nothing happens (no vibration, no bottom lights). when plugged into wall charger, after a couple of minutes, (the right side of the back camera) starts heating up for no apparent reason. plz anyone knows whats wrong or any ideas???????
Hi,
I have TMO Nexus 5, 2.5 yrs old. Suddenly, my phone shuts down with more than have battery charge remaining. I cannot do anything by pressing any buttons. it is dead. If I connect to the charger, phone goes on the loop. The google sign appears on the screen, then it goes dark in a second or 2, then sign appears again, and so on. I can access the bootloader menu but only for a second. Then the phone goes off again. I cannot even properly turn it off, even when press power/volume up/down keys together. It just will not shut off.
Happened a few times before, but I was able to revive it by charging 3-4 hours and eventually it stopped looping. This time, no luck. Between the episodes like this, it worked just fine. Stock, never rooted, latest android 6.01.
Bad battery or something else? I did order the battery and will try to swap it, but would like to know if this could be anything else.
Normally, I would try to simply remove the battery and then put it back, but this battery is a little trickier to remove. I do not want to do this until I decide the battery needs to be changed.
Thanks very much.
So after owning my original S8+ for 3 months, the battery died one night and upon charging the next morning, I had the black screen of death. The phone would respond to my touches, it would charge, etc but the screen would never come on.
I ended up getting a replacement and putting this one in my drawer for a year. I pulled it out a week ago and plugged it in to the charger randomly and still nothing. After 2-3 hours (enough to fully charge it), I started pulling and plugging in the charge cable, along with continuous power button cycles; and BAM, the screen came on like nothing was wrong.
I unlocked it, used it for hours, backed it up just in case; and left it running on wifi. After a couple days of it running down, it was still working fine. Once it got down to ~10% battery, the screen stopped coming on.
I charged it back up to 100% and I"m now getting the always-on screen to show up. I can see the battery %, date/time and the home button on the bottom
As soon as I hit anything though, either the screen to unlock, or the power button, the screen goes off. It is responding to my inputs and I can unlock the phone via intelligent unlock/pin code/fingerprint, but something is causing it to not light up once it kicks off the always-on screen.
I've tried resetting it, as well a pwr down+bixby+power to get in to recovery mode; but even once it restarts the screen still wont turn on until it gets back to the point the always-on screen would come on.
unboostedzc said:
So after owning my original S8+ for 3 months, the battery died one night and upon charging the next morning, I had the black screen of death. The phone would respond to my touches, it would charge, etc but the screen would never come on.
I ended up getting a replacement and putting this one in my drawer for a year. I pulled it out a week ago and plugged it in to the charger randomly and still nothing. After 2-3 hours (enough to fully charge it), I started pulling and plugging in the charge cable, along with continuous power button cycles; and BAM, the screen came on like nothing was wrong.
I unlocked it, used it for hours, backed it up just in case; and left it running on wifi. After a couple days of it running down, it was still working fine. Once it got down to ~10% battery, the screen stopped coming on.
I charged it back up to 100% and I"m now getting the always-on screen to show up. I can see the battery %, date/time and the home button on the bottom
As soon as I hit anything though, either the screen to unlock, or the power button, the screen goes off. It is responding to my inputs and I can unlock the phone via intelligent unlock/pin code/fingerprint, but something is causing it to not light up once it kicks off the always-on screen.
I've tried resetting it, as well a pwr down+bixby+power to get in to recovery mode; but even once it restarts the screen still wont turn on until it gets back to the point the always-on screen would come on.
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Wow you hyped me up at 4 am I woke up and started to unplug and plug the phone while pressing the power butto
Now by chance have you guys tried to order a battery just to see. Samsung's are noted to do really weird stuff if the batteries are failing
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Wow you hyped me up at 4 am I woke up and started to unplug and plug the phone while pressing the power butto
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So not to get you excited again at 4am but... I was able to get it back to life after plugging it in and letting it charge fully then repeating the steps in my original post.
It is definitely an error relating to the waking of the phone from the always on screen. I discovered this after toggling the always on settings then using the plugging/unplugging, home button press on the screen, power button harassment on the phone, causing it to finally spazz out completely and then out of nowhere the AOD blasts on.
i know this, it seems to be perfectly ok again until the battery does start to die. once it gets down to 15-20%, it will eventually go dark again until i get lucky and it gets enough juice aid/or tired of me touching everything at once.