I have a motorola photon q that is rooted, and is running CM 10.1. Everything was working fine last night, but when I woke up my phone would not turn on, I thought maybe my charger messed up, but using different chargers did not work, no led, no screen response, anything. I tried recovery mode and fastboot, and couldn't get either to work. When I hooked it into my PC there was no response on either end. I thought about calling sprint, and while dealing with their automated system, I managed to get it to boot into recovery (TWRP 2.4) where I cleared my cache and Dalvik, and now it seems to be working fine.
All I want to know is what happened? Was it just luck I managed to get it into recovery? What do I do if it continues happening?
It's also worth noting that in TWRP it said my battery was at %33 but my phone is telling me I'm fully charged.
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Sounds like battery trouble - perhaps the phone wasn't charging, and it completely died?
That was what I had thought at first, but I feel like it would have turned on before it was at 30+%
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Thinks its always connected, doesnt even display Samsung when i try to reboot it, just hangs. Displays batt logo a split second. Than goes unresponsive. Can enter download mode while just 3 button pressing, not connected. Can re flash to stock everytime though.
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Had the same issue a while back, messing with a USB cable while plugged into it got it to go away occasionally then I think I cleaned it, its been so long I can't remember how I fixed it or if I did anything at all, its the USB port. It may be damaged, it may have some trash in there. Try blowing it out. If not send it to Samsung or see if att will replace it.
K, ya i figured that was the case with the usb port, but what about the other software oddities?
ive since went bone stock, and factory reset. Hasnt acted wierd since (crosses fingers)
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K, ya i figured that was the case with the usb port, but what about the other software oddities?
ive since went bone stock, and factory reset. Hasnt acted wierd since (crosses fingers)
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Oddities like what? Download mode and the charge screen would be normal behavior when a device is plugged in to the port. Add long as there is a problem with the port these are possible symptoms.
You are correct, i apologize. I understand whats going on with my phone now. Definietly the charger port. Which it explai.s why it is acting normal right now. Because im not restarting it right now.
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Is anybody else having an issue where the phone freezes when trying to reboot or power off? I have wiped all caches and even restored may nandroid backup that was all stock and was getting the same issue. I did not see anything in any of the other ics post. I am not getting any force closes and I have tried repairing permissions. It just does the same thing.
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Everything's working great for me, with the lone exception that when I go to shut down it gets stuck and I need to pull the battery if I intend to power off completely, or hold down the power button for ten seconds or so to reboot the phone.
I think almost everyone is having this issue.
Thanks guys it was working fine. I guess its a small price to pay to have ics.
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When I first flashed ICS, without doing a factory reset afterward, I was able to shut down properly. Then I read in the forum that to fix the locking issue, I needed to do a factory reset. So I did. And after that, nothing worked quite right, and I get stuck during shut down.
So, I reflashed ICS, did factory reset 3 times immediately afterward. Now everything is working fine, including shut down.
YMMV
I am rooted 4.0.3 stock.
No problems with the power menu.
Strange. I'm just lucky, huh?
iandr0idos said:
I am rooted 4.0.3 stock.
No problems with the power menu.
Strange. I'm just lucky, huh?
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I am in the same boat. The superuser zip also flashed no errors first time.
I didn't have the issue at first but it started randomly. Kinda annoying but I guess I'll deal because everything else works fine.
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Mine worked fine also. I don't know what happened. Maybe it will start working fine again in its own again
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Same problem for a lot of people.
In the meantime you can use this app to reboot and shutdown. Works like a charm.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.siriusapplications.quickboot&hl=en
Also holding down the power button about 10 seconds or so will also reboot your phone.
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That works like a charm. Much thanks. :beer:
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I have had my S3 for about two months now and it has been rooted the whole time. The stock ROM finally annoyed me enough to try a new ROM. I installed Rootbox then Pacman, but they both just sat on the boot screen for about 10 minutes before I pulled the battery and gave up. I tried installing MIUI which went well but as soon as I hit the 'restart' button, the screen went blank and now the phone won't turn on. The battery is fine, I tried the known good one out of my wife's S3.
Is there any hope here? Any chance I will be able to get it swapped out at Verizon? Am I just f'ed?
Just for the record because I know it will be asked: I am have installed many ROMs on my old Droid X and I did follow directions for these installs. MIUI even had the wizard. I do have a nandroid but since I cannot turn the phone on at all, I can't get to it. I cannot get to download mode or react when I plug the charger in. I can't even get the thing to vibrate when holding down the power button...as far as I can tell it is COMPLETELY dead.
Thanks for the input.
Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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i fried a gsiii and got a replacement frpm big red. just tell them the OTA did it. if it can't turn on they can't check what you've done until it's too late. bring it in asap and have a sob story about how the update destroyed your phone... it worked 2 days after the jelly bean update for me.
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Pull the battery and try again. If that doesn't work plug it in and see if it charges.
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No dice on both fronts.
Thanks Bear, that is pretty much the plan so far.
Any response booting into download mode?
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Does the screen flash for a second or respond for any amount of time when you try charging it with or without the battery? Our is there no response at all when you're trying to charge it,?
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No problem. They will give you a replacement as long as there is no physical damage to the phone... Good luck!!
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Did you flash a rom for the i9300 version of the phone and not the i535? I did that and hard bricked my first s3.
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So last night I plugged in my Verizon GSIII into the charger, and this morning, when I went to it to turn it on, it booted up, had the Samsung Logo, the Cyanogenmod animation... and shuts off. I tried to power off and power on three more times, and even put it into recovery, but the phone shuts off even before it allows me to do this. I tried again, with 3 different batteries to no results.
You guys have any ideas?
Should I try for a ADB connection?
Since technically my warranty is voided after root, I don't think Samsung will be too pleased if I ask for a replacement :/.
Oh, and since I'm sort of a noob, and if this is an obvious cause or something, I apologize
Thanks!
If you can goto download mode, then you can flash stock firmware. But just check the flash counter.
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I tried, but my phone won't stay in download mode for more than five seconds. And what's a flash counter?
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Hi,
Recently i bought a 16gb SD card from wal-mart and i thought that i could just use that to install apps with...boy was i wrong. Anyway, i decided to root and install cm11.0 on it, everything worked fine and dandy until i decided to install a mod that i saw that said "swap internal SD/External SD. It got me excited and so i jumped into installing it like normal (e.g. recover -> flash -> reboot) and my tablet started up at the boot logo for Samsung. i got excited and excited until i noticed it was taking FOREVER. it booted up and worked but the battery drained out because it was left with 5% left. it died, i tried turning it back on but nothing happens :'c. BUT although whenever i plug the tablet into a wall socket i get a battery logo and a little loading thing that indicates that its charging, BUT the indicator is frozen. It just doesn't move and neither does the charging bar.
I can send pictures of what it looks like but im no photographer Please helpp!!! :crying: :crying:
Can you get into recovery?
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Can you get into recovery?
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I cant really turn it on to begin with, like recovery or download mode. I tried to charge it but it just shows the charging icon and the a loading thing thats frozen. Cant get into download or recovery. Im pretty keen with getting out of hard bricks because i got out of like 3 but this one is pretty bad.
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I cant really turn it on to begin with, like recovery or download mode. I tried to charge it but it just shows the charging icon and the a loading thing thats frozen. Cant get into download or recovery. Im pretty keen with getting out of hard bricks because i got out of like 3 but this one is pretty bad.
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Wow, hmm, I'm just spit-balling but have you tried just leaving it plugged in overnight to see if it's charging but not showing that it's charging?
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