Hello, so finally i dropped my S6 few days ago, and now it's not turning on. I mean, screen is definitely broken but I can't even turn it on to copy my data. After I connect it to PC, the blue LED turn on, and that's it. Phone getting hotter and hotter, and after few minutes turn off. Nothing appear on PC. I think motherboard is broken, but is there any way to access memory and copy my data?
Take it to a repair shop. Probably there are some internal circuits breaking or touching metal parts.
If I were you I wouldn't try to turn it on at all, until a professional has a look at it.
Thanks god to Samsung Cloud I realized that I have everything backed up there, so S6 will probably land to box and be just souvenir
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I don't know if this is the right place to post this; if it isn't where else could I get help?
For the past 3 days, my s5 has been doing this thing, where it has massive lag for a couple minutes, then completely freezes before I can do anything else, and nothing works except the power button to put it into sleep mode. When I turn it on, each time I don't get a lock screen or anything, just a black screen with the little black notification bar at the top, (this is also totally frozen. For example, if I plug my phone in, it doesn't show up on the battery icon). Nothing works, except the power button to put it back into sleep mode. The only way I could figure out to turn it off, was to take out the battery, then put it back in, an turn the phone back on. This cycle happened 4 or 5 times each day, today, yesterday, and Tuesday. It was obnoxious, but I figured it was just an android quirk, and it would eventually 'go away'. It did not. This afternoon, after removing the battery, the phone would not turn on, or vibrate, or do anything else. It has been charging for six hours. What caused this, and can I fix it?
I do not have any form of warranty on the phone.
This is a standard Galaxy s5, except:
-broken microUSB flap thing, (Yes, I know. The phone isn't waterproof anymore. It has been broken for ~a month, I was going to replace it eventually. The phone has not been near water, although it might have been affected by humidity.)
-3rd party battery from ebay. I've had this for about 6 months. I don't know if it could be affecting the problem.
-32 gig sd card, bought from Samsung, (2-3 months old)
PLEASE HELP! I can't afford to get a new phone. Thank you so much!
user-name_user-name said:
Hi!
I don't know if this is the right place to post this; if it isn't where else could I get help?
For the past 3 days, my s5 has been doing this thing, where it has massive lag for a couple minutes, then completely freezes before I can do anything else, and nothing works except the power button to put it into sleep mode. When I turn it on, each time I don't get a lock screen or anything, just a black screen with the little black notification bar at the top, (this is also totally frozen. For example, if I plug my phone in, it doesn't show up on the battery icon). Nothing works, except the power button to put it back into sleep mode. The only way I could figure out to turn it off, was to take out the battery, then put it back in, an turn the phone back on. This cycle happened 4 or 5 times each day, today, yesterday, and Tuesday. It was obnoxious, but I figured it was just an android quirk, and it would eventually 'go away'. It did not. This afternoon, after removing the battery, the phone would not turn on, or vibrate, or do anything else. It has been charging for six hours. What caused this, and can I fix it?
I do not have any form of warranty on the phone.
This is a standard Galaxy s5, except:
-broken microUSB flap thing, (Yes, I know. The phone isn't waterproof anymore. It has been broken for ~a month, I was going to replace it eventually. The phone has not been near water, although it might have been affected by humidity.)
-3rd party battery from ebay. I've had this for about 6 months. I don't know if it could be affecting the problem.
-32 gig sd card, bought from Samsung, (2-3 months old)
PLEASE HELP! I can't afford to get a new phone. Thank you so much!
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Hi and thank you for using XDA Assist
Do you have a custom ROM on your device?
If not, try to make a factory reset, it will help for sure .
Good luck!
Hello im repairing an samsung galaxy s6, which was dropped in water by a firend(for cca 2 seconds). I told him to turn it off, and i cleaned it with alcohol when i got it in my hands. Now i do not know what to do, . When i plug it in my charger and try to turn it on, i get a blue light but just a black screen nothing happens. When i reset the phone( soft reset) there is a red light while charging but nothing happens on the screen. When i connect it too a pc it recognises a device but it cant load the drivers of the device. What could be wrong with it ? Could it be the battery, i cant get it to turn on
zazbano said:
Hello im repairing an samsung galaxy s6, which was dropped in water by a firend(for cca 2 seconds). I told him to turn it off, and i cleaned it with alcohol when i got it in my hands. Now i do not know what to do, . When i plug it in my charger and try to turn it on, i get a blue light but just a black screen nothing happens. When i reset the phone( soft reset) there is a red light while charging but nothing happens on the screen. When i connect it too a pc it recognises a device but it cant load the drivers of the device. What could be wrong with it ? Could it be the battery, i cant get it to turn on
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It does not matter if you turn it off straight away, the battery IS STILL CONNECTED inside the phone so any water inside will continue to damage the components. It is impossible to say what the damage is at this stage without taking the phone apart and testing each component.
Leave the phone somewhere warm to dry out completely, if after a few days it still does not turn on then the phone is broken.
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It does not matter if you turn it off straight away, the battery IS STILL CONNECTED inside the phone so any water inside will continue to damage the components. It is impossible to say what the damage is at this stage without taking the phone apart and testing each component.
Leave the phone somewhere warm to dry out completely, if after a few days it still does not turn on then the phone is broken.
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ive analysed the phone and the screen is 100% broken , i will replace it, i think the screen is broken + the phone is bootlooping ill report back when i repair it
Hello, today I wanted to restart my device and it just doesn't want to turn on. I cannot access any mode, nothing shows up while charging. The phone was rooted. It was also water damaged in April (1 second in toilet), it didn't wanted to turn on either but somehow I managed to turn it back on and it was working well. When I plug it to PC i can see Exynos7420 for a second and it shows up every time I press power button. I hope it's not hard bricked or heavy damaged inside :/
Worgen325 said:
Hello, today I wanted to restart my device and it just doesn't want to turn on. I cannot access any mode, nothing shows up while charging. The phone was rooted. It was also water damaged in April (1 second in toilet), it didn't wanted to turn on either but somehow I managed to turn it back on and it was working well. When I plug it to PC i can see Exynos7420 for a second and it shows up every time I press power button. I hope it's not hard bricked or heavy damaged inside :/
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Well it's defo a hardware failure of some sort, sounds like the main board might be done for. Water damage if not dealt with straight away can cause corrosion of components over time.
Hello,
Let me make this as short as possible. I have a 3 and a half year old Nexus 5. Just got off a plane 6 hours ago, and when i wanted to check my Facebook the display looked like it failed. I had red vertical lines running up and down the stream and the brightness was extremely low even though the setting in the phone had not changed. All the while, the phone was also impossible to maneuver. I rebooted it, the problem persisted for 5 minutes, and then after a quick lock-unlock, it fixed itself.
About 10 minutes later, when I again tried to unlock my phone to check if things were okay, the display went completely black. If I connect the phone to a charger, the display gets a little illuminated like it's going to start but nothing actually happens, I cannot see anything on the screen. The phone is responsive, if I plug it into a PC it starts charging and the PC recognizes it, but I can't see absolutely anything but black on the screen. Now with the questions:
1) What type of problem do you think this is. Wiring, display, or dead phone and no repair possible? As a best guess at least.
2) Before I take the phone into a service, I would like to know if there's any way I can download the pictures and data I had stored on it that was not yet backed up. As I said, I was just returning from a trip and I have some pictures on it, and while the PC recognizes the phone, it is put automatically in USB Charge mode and not USB Mass Storage Device mode. The phone is NOT rooted and USB Debugging was enabled before it crashed. The phone is up to date with the latest firmware.
Thank you in advance.
Does the touch function work? Is the bootloader unlocked?
If yes to both, you could load twrp, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy off files.
It sounds like a failed screen to me. Was the phone ever dropped or exposed to moisture?
audit13 said:
Does the touch function work? Is the bootloader unlocked?
If yes to both, you could load twrp, boot into twrp, mount the data partition, and copy off files.
It sounds like a failed screen to me. Was the phone ever dropped or exposed to moisture?
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The screen is pitch black. If I touch the screen I can't feel anything or see anything, and I have no certainty I would be in the right menus. The only reaction I get is if I plug it in or reset it. The phone was never dropped, it is still in impeccable condition, no scratches or bumps. It wasn't exposed to moisture either, I wonder if the flight had anything to do with it, pressure and all.
So basically, apart from what you mentioned, there's no other way if my data is not backed up? I will be taking it in tomorrow, hoping for the best.
It's weird that this happened suddenly. The simplest solution may be to place the motherboard into another working phone.
You didn't answered about unlocked bootloader.
adrian.lupas said:
Hello,
Let me make this as short as possible. I have a 3 and a half year old Nexus 5. Just got off a plane 6 hours ago, and when i wanted to check my Facebook the display looked like it failed. I had red vertical lines running up and down the stream and the brightness was extremely low even though the setting in the phone had not changed. All the while, the phone was also impossible to maneuver. I rebooted it, the problem persisted for 5 minutes, and then after a quick lock-unlock, it fixed itself.
About 10 minutes later, when I again tried to unlock my phone to check if things were okay, the display went completely black. If I connect the phone to a charger, the display gets a little illuminated like it's going to start but nothing actually happens, I cannot see anything on the screen. The phone is responsive, if I plug it into a PC it starts charging and the PC recognizes it, but I can't see absolutely anything but black on the screen. Now with the questions:
1) What type of problem do you think this is. Wiring, display, or dead phone and no repair possible? As a best guess at least.
2) Before I take the phone into a service, I would like to know if there's any way I can download the pictures and data I had stored on it that was not yet backed up. As I said, I was just returning from a trip and I have some pictures on it, and while the PC recognizes the phone, it is put automatically in USB Charge mode and not USB Mass Storage Device mode. The phone is NOT rooted and USB Debugging was enabled before it crashed. The phone is up to date with the latest firmware.
Thank you in advance.
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It's just the ribbon cable .You can change it by yourself it's too damn easy plus the cable is really cheap
It's either the flex cable or the LCD itself.
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It's either the flex cable or the LCD itself.
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It was the LCD. I got a replacement LCD but now even with my brightness to the maximum, the phone still is darker than before. I also got a new battery in it. Is there an option to change the brightness that is hidden, or some kind of power saving option?
Thanks.
This Tuesday my OnePlus One fell into a lake. I let it dry for 2 days before powering it on, but there are a couple things wrong. The screen has messed up colors and what looks like artifacting (water stains I've heard them called?) so I've resigned myself to buying a new phone (hopefully tomorrow), but there are some files I had stored on my now old phone that I'd like to try to recover.
Even after leaving it to charge all night, it won't turn on unless plugged in. When plugged in, it will continuously show the Low Battery screen (with the Chinese text). If I hold volume-down while plugging it in, it will enter a bootloop (vibration, OnePlus logo, screen off, repeat) until unplugged, at which point it immediately stops and turns off. My PC doesn't register it at all when either of these two things happen. The screen doesn't turn on if I hold volume-up while plugging it in, but it will register on my PC as QDLoader 9008.
Before all this I was running the latest nightly of LineageOS and TWRP with an unlocked bootloader.
I've been very happy with my phone for the past 4 years but with the screen the way it is I'm not interested in fixing it, all I want is to access the data partition from my PC. I have Android Studio, adb, etc installed on my PC, is there any way to get adb to recognize my phone either in the low-battery screen or when recognized as QDLoader? Turning off immediately when the charging cable is removed makes me think its a broken battery which I could just replace, but I'd prefer not to spend any money if I don't have too seeing as I'm buying a new phone.
I've spent hours searching forums and Google for solutions, but all the solutions seem to involve wiping the drive to save the phone, while I'm not interested in saving the phone, just my data. The stickied debricking thread also seems to be targeted to hard-bricks, but considering the circumstances I don't think my phone is actually bricked at all, it just probably has a damaged battery.
Thanks!
Sorry to hear about your phone. Have you opened it up to check that all the contacts are dry? Water may have caused corrosion. Also, if you encounter water damage in future, it would be better to place your phone in a desiccant.