Samsung Galaxy S4mini 4G turn on problem - General Questions and Answers

I was watching a youtube video last night and then I turned on auto rotation to switch the side. Once I rotate the screen, phone got stucked but it kept playing the video because I heard sounds. Then I locked the screen but still I can hear the sounds but then I couldn't turn on the screen. I thought it will be okay when I take off the battery. Then I put the battery and turned on. It vibrates as usual when turning on but can't see logos or anything. I can't even go for download mode or anything. When I turned on and it vibrates, after about 5 minutes I called it but it says "Phone is switched off!". When I stare at the screen I can see that it's screen is dark brown colored! That's only thing I can see on screen. What seems to be the problem? Is there any solutions?

Try taking the battery out for a few min... And then do a hard restart. Update me on what happens.

BluT00th said:
Try taking the battery out for a few min... And then do a hard restart. Update me on what happens.
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I did that. Hard reset by you mean home+power+volume up together right? Can't even go to that mode!

chamathka_sooriyapala said:
I did that. Hard reset by you mean home+power+volume up together right? Can't even go to that mode!
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Yeah.
Can you add a picture of your phone when its on?

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Yeah.
Can you add a picture of your phone when its on?
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I can only feel the vibration when it's turned on. There's nothing to see in it. Not even the Samsung logo.

chamathka_sooriyapala said:
I can only feel the vibration when it's turned on. There's nothing to see in it. Not even the Samsung logo.
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I have not a clue what you did.
you might need to just take the battery out and wait a few hours. And then charge it for a day.
Try that. Otherwise, bring it in.

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[Q] TF Hard Restarting ??

I have noticed that when I leave the TF in standby for a while untouched (1day) when I do go to power it on, it boots with the Asus logo as if it was shut down? I know it wasn't because of the battery because when it powered on it was at 60%.
Is this normal behavior, some setting? Power saving feature?
Thanks,
Pete
pasta1234 said:
I have noticed that when I leave the TF in standby for a while untouched (1day) when I do go to power it on, it boots with the Asus logo as if it was shut down? I know it wasn't because of the battery because when it powered on it was at 60%.
Is this normal behavior, some setting? Power saving feature?
Thanks,
Pete
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What's it supposed to show when it boots, pictures of Barack Obama
checkbox111 said:
What's it supposed to show when it boots, pictures of Barack Obama
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He's saying it shouldn't be booting. It never got turned off.
Sam9938 said:
He's saying it shouldn't be booting. It never got turned off.
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Maybe it thinks 'OK i've been on standby for so many hours i better turn on power saving mode to save battery'
Yes, I was asking if others TF behaved the same way and this was normal ?
Mine has spontaneously rebooted once. I don't know why and it has never happened since.
Happened twice with mine today. Both occurred after FW update. Will keep an eye on it to see if it happens again.

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] Flashlight glitch

I woke up this morning and went to unlock my phone and when I hit the unlock button the LED flashlight came on. Nothing on the screen. Everytime I hit the power button, the light comes on. When I let go, it goes off.... it's kinda strange. I can't get it to work though. I've taken the battery out and put it back in... and it happened again. I connected it to my laptop... same thing. Any suggestions?
Are you on stock ROM? Rooted or un-rooted? If rooted, can you boot to recovery?
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jnwolfe125 said:
I woke up this morning and went to unlock my phone and when I hit the unlock button the LED flashlight came on. Nothing on the screen. Everytime I hit the power button, the light comes on. When I let go, it goes off.... it's kinda strange. I can't get it to work though. I've taken the battery out and put it back in... and it happened again. I connected it to my laptop... same thing. Any suggestions?
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Maybe is a bad battery...how long have u been using it?

Phone randomly turned off and now screen stays black.

My phone's screen randomly turned off and now everytime I try and turn it back on the screen stays black. But i feel the vibration so i'm not sure what to make of this.
EDIT: I guess my phone ran out of battery cause I'm an idiot and so it works. Just had to leave it charged it for a bit
Dgameman1 said:
My phone's screen randomly turned off and now everytime I try and turn it back on the screen stays black. But i feel the vibration so i'm not sure what to make of this.
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Are you running a custom rom? Did you change any voltages or tweak anything? Can you see anything if you boot into recovery or download mode?
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Phone not turning on

I have an old lg d380 dual sim card phone, i've been trying to fix it but i cant seem to find the solution. The problem is that it wont turn on no matter what, when i do try turning it on but it keeps doing a long vibrate over and over again and the screen wont even turn on (completely off), it wont stop until i removed the battery. And also, when i try charging it, the screen wont turn on too. It charges but it doesnt show the logo that shows that its charging. The only time it does turn on is when i charged the pgone without battery but thats it. So can anyone help me?
P.S : before it turns on for the last time it said something in a purple screen. I think its something about demigod or something.
da123rrell said:
I have an old lg d380 dual sim card phone, i've been trying to fix it but i cant seem to find the solution. The problem is that it wont turn on no matter what, when i do try turning it on but it keeps doing a long vibrate over and over again and the screen wont even turn on (completely off), it wont stop until i removed the battery. And also, when i try charging it, the screen wont turn on too. It charges but it doesnt show the logo that shows that its charging. The only time it does turn on is when i charged the pgone without battery but thats it. So can anyone help me?
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Sounds like hardware problem. Take it to the service center
neil10 said:
Sounds like hardware problem. Take it to the service center
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I'll try going there on mondays.
da123rrell said:
I'll try going there on mondays.
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Good luck !

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