this morning my wife's phone that is 4.0.4 stock/rooted was stuck in bootloop only vibrating and showing the samsung logo again and again. i wiped cache and dalvik to try a quick fix since she was on her way out the door which got the phone to boot up. she called and told me that the phone now is re-starting randomly every few minutes. what is the best way to solve this, CWM flashable stock zip or ODIN stock rom?
also im new to this phone i use the og note on CM11, so if you happen to have a link to a stock/debloated/rooted rom or a custom/stable rom please post it. Thanks all
Sounds like you have a stuck power button. Pull the battery and put out back in. If out truss to boot right up the power button is stuck. It's an easy fix to replace the power button. Do it yourself or take it to a cell phone repair shop. I just did that on my rocket. It was $40 to replace
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This is a well known failure mode on the Skyrocket, and there are a couple of ways to "fix it".
If you are rooted, you can use an app like Button Savior (or something like it) to "press" that button for you. Unfortunately, if the button really is stuck on, this may not help. (Mine would stick for a bit, but eventually open, so as long as I didn't press it the phone did okay)
The other is to just have the switch replaced at a repair shop. I would strongly recommend that, unless you have a hot air workstation and SMD grade soldering iron, you NOT try this one at home. The part is fairly small, and the solder pads are actually slightly recessed, so you really need something like a solder paste to get a good connection without a short. I have actually had some formal training as a solder tech, and even I deferred to a tech at work on this one.
Also, if you get it fixed, check to see if your ROM has an option for using other buttons to wake the phone up. I set mine to use the volume keys to take some of the load off the power button.
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Hello. First and foremost i am noob, but i fee like i've given this site a fair scrub for my situation and i haven't found anyone in a similar situation. I have an htc thunderbolt, I am not sure about any of the software versions, but i am on verizons network. I recently rooted my phone. The rooting process went fine. I then went on to install the latest version of liquid thunderbolt using rom manager. The install seemed to go fine. IT go to the point where a graphic loaded on the screen. I think its the liquid thunderbolt loading graphic. It's like this vortex-like thing with a bunch of lightening in the middle and then a water drop surrounded by lightening. Either way it's been stuck on this screen for the past 4 hours. What should i do? Is my phone what htey call bricked? If so can i recover from it? Should i just yank out the batter?! PLEASE HELP!
What you are describing is happening to me right now as well. Have you found out any new information. btw My tb has been rooted for 4 months with no troubles. last night i put clockwork mod/rom manager on it went through the process step by step then selected a new rom I think it was from liquid thunder. Now no mater what i do the phone boots up to the htc screen and then to rotating screens just like you described. that's it nothing else. it will not power off without to pulling the battery. i have pulled the sd card. it will not boot into hboot. press down vol. then the power.
thanks,
Jarrad
Hi, this is Jarrad's wife and I have fixed his phone. I was asleep last night when he did this to his phone and he has been up all night working on it. He even went as far as to make me breakfast in bed in order to soften the blow I guess with regard to the information he was about to tell me about his brand new very expensive phone, since he knew it would piss me off. So anyway he had the phone off for about an hour and a half on the charger and stopped messing with it. After he told me his story of what he did to the phone I decided to take a look at it. He told me that when you go into recovery you push and hold the power button and the volume down button at the same time but, this is not true or at least its not what I did to get him to the recovery screen. I was going to turn it on but, forgot he said it had a problem, so after holding down the power button ALONE for about 5 seconds I then pushed the volume down button and held them both together and boom the recovery screen came up. Now it was not a fluke because he then used the wrong recovery option and locked it up again. So, again a pressed the power button ALONE for about 5 seconds and then added the pressing of the volume down control button and boom back to the recovery screen. I hope this works for you the way it worked for me. Good Luck.
Jarrad's Wife Liz
Hello all.
I was helping my buddy with putting on a custom ROM onto his Galaxy S. I did everything required and got the phone to run CM9 just fine. The issue is that his Volume Down button is always being pressed. It's not a physical press, the phone will always just assume it's being held down. This makes the ROM boot up in Safe Mode every time.
This is an issue the phone seems to have had before I did anything to it. I guess it wasn't important enough to tell me until I asked him about it...
So what I would like to do is either
A) Install a ROM that does not do this. I am not sure which ROMs I could use, but I assume anything built using CM9 will do this.
B) Put the phone back to stock. He is still within his T-Mobile warranty so it would be preferable for him to have a fully functioning phone anyway. The issue I have run into while trying to use the One Click restore is that when I power the phone on with the two buttons and the USB cable being plugged in, it freezes on the "It is not recommended to install another OS" or whatever screen. When the PC detects the USB connection, it reports it as being an non-functioning USB device (tried a few computers and different USB ports. same thing). I also tried installing the required Stock version of a kernel and the CWM version of the stock ROM but it comes back with an error before it can install through CWM.
Any recommendations? I'm not really sure what to do at this point so I figured I would ask before I do something that would brick it.
Take the phone apart and clean the volume rocker. That advice stands whether you have a Vibrant or the SGS4G. Next look under the battery and see what your model number is. If it's not SGH-T959V do not flash anything here. Good luck.
It is the SGH-959V.
Is there a guide on how to disassemble the phone?
Here's a decent guide
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+S+4G+Teardown/4977/1
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I had my power button stuck yesterday. The darn thing just won't pop out. So I took some kitchen decreaser and sprayed on a towel to wipe the area around it. And whoa la, it is as good as new. Remove the back cover when u do this. Let the decreaser soak around the button just a bit. Use a toothpick to get the dirt and oil out around the button. Also clean the area in the back cover where the button is.
Hit the thanks button if it helps. It's my motivator to be more helpful.
I bought an used infuse the other day to fix and sell to a friend. The owner said it was bricked, but I've since gotten it into recovery mode, download mode, and a normal power on. It goes into a bootloop most of the time though, the endless bootloop people seem to be getting when the power button gets stuck.
I've completely disassembled the phone and I can't find the problem. The power button (the white one on the inside) moves completely freely. I've tried booting up the phone with the back housing off so the power button is bare but it still bootlooped. The only way I can get it to boot up is to repeatedly hit the back of the phone onto my hand as its booting up. Even then, the phone will only stay on for 30 seconds or so once it boots. I've read of people fixing this by simply throwing the phone on the ground, but is there a better way to fix this? What could be the problem?
Edit: I think I may try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2235435&highlight=bootloop
It could be a weak connection on the mobo somewhere.
Edit 2: Yep! I re-soldered the connection around the power button on the back of the motherboard and the phone is working. Got it reset and now I'm running it without the second power button thing in the case.
Hello, I am in need of some dire assistance. I purchased a Verizon Galaxy S3, the phone itself works fine, but it does some kinda funky stuff from time to time. Like if I push the power button, and I unlock the screen, sometimes the screen will turn black and I have to turn it on again, then I fight it a few time to finally unlock the phone. Something similar happens when trying to shut the screen off manually. If I use the button the screen will turn off for a second then turn back on. I fight it but I normally end up just letting the screen time itself out.
I was hoping to root it and try a custom rom, hoping the issues were stemming from a crappy verizon rom. I downloaded all the drivers and the Odin files. I am very familiar with Odin and rooting, I have approximately 12 android devices rooted at the moment most of them samsung, some lg, etc.
I am in the process of trying to get my device in Odin mode, this is where things get REALLY funky! I power the device down, it kind of just vibrates for a while, then it turns itself back on. Well alright, I pulled the battery, I insert the battery, the phone powers itself on. Well okay then, So I pull the battery, put my fingers on the volume down and the home key, slide the battery, and it boots into Download Mode. SWEET VICTORY FINALLY, just gotta push the volume down key to activa... Wait, the screen just went black, and the phone vibrates about every 10 seconds or so. So I pull the battery and try again, only this tie I push the button and get into Odin mode, I see it loading it it's complete I grab my usb cable, and the phone screen goes black and the phone vibrates.
So I have been fighting this for over an hour now and I'm ready to admit defeat unless one of you can help me out and tell me what has possessed this phone and what I can do to free it?
Yes, I did search, I have been searching, frantically, and I will continue to, I have not found anything useful yet
Sounds like a hardware problem. Most likely your power button is sticking. Try hitting it gently against a table corner or something.
Thanks, I don't like the idea of gently tapping my device against a table :/ but I will give it a shot. The plastic button that sticks out the the bezel comes back after being pressed. However I think you are right about the button, it seems a little hyper sensitive.
I had no luck tapping it against a table. I can feel the button click in and i can feel it release
I was running the latest stock image (MMB29V) since yesterday on my Nexus 5 and today I used the Nexus root toolkit as always to root the device. Well TWRP flashed once and it said it copied the root files to the device. I had it in my pocket for a few minutes and after that it went into a crazy constant boot loop. It will stop eventually but if I keep the charging cable in it won't stop. I cannot get into recovery because I get the "Start" screen but I cannot advance because it reboots too quickly. I have found a few you tube videos where people push the power button like they are playing the old school game "Track and Field" but this does not work for me nor do I think it's a power button issue. I think I stupidly might have hit some kind of button combo while I'm my pocket believe it or not. I pulled the cover off and was hoping to pull the battery but Im not a fan of doing that since its not a simple task. Any help appreciated. This phone is dead to me and that is NOT good. I need to get this working.
TIA
Bill
Will the phone stay in fastboot mode or does it quickly restart?
Possible power button problem?
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Will the phone stay in fastboot mode or does it quickly restart?
Possible power button problem?
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It quickly restarts. I want to say its not a problem with the power button because it has been fine for a few years now w/out issue and only happened after rooting earlier today. Right now the only way I can even get the phone to turn on is the plug the charging cable in and then the restarting commences. Does it sound like a power button issue? Possibly but its hard to believe, I dunno. Waiting on a call back from Google tech support to see if they are any help.
It could be a power button issue. You'll have to remove the motherboard to find out.
Once removed from the housing, quickly press and release the power button several times in a row using more pressure than normal. While the motherboard is out of the phone, clean around the power button with pure alcohol.
audit13 said:
It could be a power button issue. You'll have to remove the motherboard to find out.
Once removed from the housing, quickly press and release the power button several times in a row using more pressure than normal. While the motherboard is out of the phone, clean around the power button with pure alcohol.
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Is there a write up on that here somewhere? Guess I will have to search around for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-power-button-broken-heres-to-t3049747
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/nexus-5-power-button-broken-heres-to-t3049747
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Did NOT want to screw up my phone so I sent it to LG. Took a few weeks but it cost me 78.00 total for them to repair the power button issue. Whatever they replaced also fixed the low volume issue I was experiencing as well so it worked out.