I needed to change my screen so I decided to get a new housing since it was already going to be apart. I have moved all the internals over to the new housing and decided to do a test start before sealing the screen down. It starts to boot up and gets to the end of booting and then it gives off a strong vibration like it is shutting down and then shuts off. I have gone over all the connections and everything is just as it was. There have been a couple of boots that I can see the dimmed screen before it shuts down and I see a window that says "Shutting down" (the battery is at 50%). When it is shut off and plugged in, the charging battery screen does not show up.
Does anyone have any experience with this type of issue? I would like to get it up and running.
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Hello all,
First, let me preface this by apologizing for my lack of tech savvy. That said, I, like many others, am experiencing a boot loop on my Infuse. I've done a good amount of research on the issue, and most things point to a fault power button. I removed the battery, took the phone apart, wiped down the plastic piece, used compressed air to try to remove dust/dirt/debris/grime etc., put it back together, and the same thing happened.
Right now, the battery seems to be sapped of charge. When I plug a charger in, I get the little load icon, and then I get the battery icon that is usually filled to some extent with green indicating the amount of charge. However, the battery icon now only shows the load icon in it. After about 2 seconds, it goes black, and then just to load icon appears, before switching back to the battery with load icon, and so on and so forth.
I took the cleaning technique one step further and removed the tiny black screws from the circuit board, physically popping it off of it's stand, and then again used compressed air etc., to try to unclog the power button, if in fact this was the case. I also had read that the two little copper tabs near the power button sometimes get a little crushed, and need to be gently pried out, just a tad bit, in order to complete the circuit, so I tried that too, and still get the same issue.
This all started when my phone froze up, as it sometimes does, and restarted in the middle of me using it. However, at that point, the Samsung logo screen just kept popping up, then going black, popping up, going black etc etc. I took out the battery, and as soon as I replaced it, the Samsung logo returned, bringing me to where I am now.
So that said, what else could it be if not the power button? I've heard some suggest that it could perhaps be the SD card (I tried doing these steps with, and without the SD card loaded into the back of the phone), and even some saying that it's a bad battery. My phone has never gotten wet before, confirmed by the moisture tab, but it has sporadically frozen up on me, and sometimes gets very hot, especially when using the GPS and other apps. I haven't downloaded anything recently, and usually when it freezes up, I just hold down the power key until it reboots.
I hope this isn't too repetitive of a question. I haven't updated anything like Jellybean etc onto the phone, so it's all exactly as it was when I first got it from an operating standpoint.
I did a live chat with a Samsung rep, and they tried to have me to do the volume button + power button reset, but I couldn't get out of the loop.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
You are not alone.
I have the same exact problem. Put in the battery and Samsung appears on the screen without pushing the power button, stays for about 2-3 seconds, fades away and repeats. If I plug in the usb cable, instead of Samsung, it shows the grey battery symbol for about 2-3 seconds then fades out and repeats. Trying to boot to recovery or to put it into download mode does not work.It just repeats the grey battery icon. This is with original stock firmware. This phone has never been upgraded or rooted. It was my daughter's and she didn't want to change it. Now the phone is useless. Tried with and without sim, with and without sd card. Different usb cables. Even holding my tongue sideways. Any suggestions are appreciated.
like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSusfiSjqI
So I got this used Nexus 5 to play around with and there's an odd issue.
The phone appears to turn on normally and at cold boot it manages to go to the home screen of a freshly flashed slim rom. I can be there for a few seconds, then it'll randomly decide to shut off. I'm not sure but the temperature feeling from the back and screen feels hot to the touch. Meaning cpu temp is going high. My other nexus 5 doesn't appear to have that problem. The battery is acting weird as well. When I had the original battery on there it would just go to the google logo and would shut off right after. Should I plug in a brand new oem battery? I have a knock off battery and it worked fine on my other phone except the capacity was much lower. I thought it might be temperature related so I tried making an aluminium heat sink and thermal paste for the cpu, but nothing changes. I will link to video in a bit. Also the only way the phone responds after is by plugging in the phone cable to any power source. Don't judge the vertical framing it just happened. I tried to replicate it again all normal like and the phone stops at the 4 color dots and the phone shuts down as if the battery was removed. It doesn't respond until plugged into usb power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FMvVge9pPs&feature=youtu.be. I can't seem to post links yet, but this shows the issues I'm having.
*temperature seems to be 50c idle on the TWRP screen. While comparing to my other phone which is 30c. That seems off.
update: I fresh installed android 4.0 stock and I have to remove the battery ribbon cable and press it back in to get the phone to go home screen for about 5 seconds. the battery ribbon cable and the whole motherboard does seem to get very hot to the touch. What is happening? What could be eating up. Maybe that's why the phone is trying to shut itself down to prevent overheating damage.
there's no android 4.0 for nexus 5 :V oldest android for N5 is 4.4
My Verizon S6 64GB is about 2yrs old. And it tries to do a system update (Not software update) as soon as it's turned on. It freezes a few second upon starting. I either have to let the battery drain out or disconnect the battery from the logic board every time.
I tried getting into recovery to wipe cache but it freezes on that screen as well. Button are unresponsive. Again have to disconnect the battery from inside.
While the phone is completely off it turns on to the Samsung logo screen when I plug in the charger and freezes there too. Weird--it does the same when I connect it to the charger and the battery isn't even connected. Doesn't seem to be charging properly either. It holds a little bit of a charge after being plugged in for hours. Dies in like 5 min.
Now it boots up to the recovery mode with the blue screen, yellow exclamation over slanted droid and the words....No Command. It freezes there.
Does anyone know what could be wrong and whether or not I can retrieve my pictures from it? Thanks.
I've had my Nexus 5 since it was released in 2013. About two years ago I started getting a dreaded bootloop and determined it was the power switch failing. I had the power switch replaced and all my problems went away.
About 6 months ago I started seeing the symptoms of a failing power switch. Random reboots which would go into a bootloop which I could stop by smacking my phone or cleaning it with video cleaner.
But then I that was getting less effective so I finally had the power switch replaced again. I have tested the switch itself, and it does close the circuit when pressed. But I am still unable to turn on my phone. When its plugged in I dont see the charging battery icon either.
But if I let it sit for a while, and hold down on the power button occassionally it will turn on and I will see the google logo, but then it shuts down. I can also hold down power+vol down and somtimes turn on in recovery mode before the phone turns off.
I can only seem to keep the phone on for 1-4 seconds before it turns off.
I'm assuming that there must be some hardware damage somewhere. Perhaps its thermal related? I havent tried freezing or heating the logicboard yet, but am now considering that. I need to boot it up long enough to transfer a couple files.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what I might try?
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
vtech7634 said:
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.