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[Q] Phone stuck when playing how to restart manually?

Hello phone crashed when i'm using it, since we can't get battery off, how to force restarting it? I tried holding power button 10 seconds, didnt work

profprof said:
Hello phone crashed when i'm using it, since we can't get battery off, how to force restarting it? I tried holding power button 10 seconds, didnt work
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Power and volume up

gregbradley said:
Power and volume up
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Thank you so so much for this quick reply, it worked

profprof said:
Hello phone crashed when i'm using it, since we can't get battery off, how to force restarting it? I tried holding power button 10 seconds, didnt work
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Well u could hav used emergency power button near sim slot..

How can you hard reboot if needed

I'm considering upgrading from my S2 to the S6 but I'm concerned about situations where, in the past, my S2 was locked up such that the only way to fix it was to pop out the battery.
Trying to power it off through the button didn't work, screen was unresponsive.
With the S6, since you can't just pop the back off and pop the battery out, what would one do in this situation?

marklyn said:
I'm considering upgrading from my S2 to the S6 but I'm concerned about situations where, in the past, my S2 was locked up such that the only way to fix it was to pop out the battery.
Trying to power it off through the button didn't work, screen was unresponsive.
With the S6, since you can't just pop the back off and pop the battery out, what would one do in this situation?
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Hold power until it restarts. If for some reason that doesnt work then hold Home+Power+Vol Down until it reboots.

Do NOT hold power+vol down+home. That puts it in download mode.
It's not an S2, I can't imagine this happening. Hasn't happened on my last 3 phones that did not have removable battery.

natypes said:
Do NOT hold power+vol down+home. That puts it in download mode.
It's not an S2, I can't imagine this happening. Hasn't happened on my last 3 phones that did not have removable battery.
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So what if it goes into download mode. I'm just saying if whatever reason it doesn't restart with power then try the latter.

Gizmoe said:
So what if it goes into download mode. I'm just saying if whatever reason it doesn't restart with power then try the latter.
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Still, I wonder what happens in a situation where (in the past) you needed to pull the battery to do a hard restart. It's looking like you can't do that now.

marklyn said:
Still, I wonder what happens in a situation where (in the past) you needed to pull the battery to do a hard restart. It's looking like you can't do that now.
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That isn't the case anymore. The power button is made to bypass the system now by holding it down due to non removable battery. I guess worse case scenario you could just let it die and then boot into recovery and factory reset. The download mode hard reset function should always work regardless of the state of the system. Then when in download mode just hold down the combo again until the screen goes black. Then you can just start it up again. Not sure why the other poster thinks going into download mode is a dramatic scenario.

Update: I just read samsung built in a specific function just for this. Hold volume down and power for 10 seconds and phone will power off.

Gizmoe said:
Update: I just read samsung built in a specific function just for this. Hold volume down and power for 10 seconds and phone will power off.
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I hope that is really the case. And my phone is a S4, no clue why I said S2. duh.
I know that on rare occasions my phone was so foobared that the only way I could unlock it was to pop the battery out but then again on an S4 there may not have been a power off button combination under the same circumstances.

I found that I had to hold all 4 buttons on my Verizon S6 to get it out of download mode. This boots it into "Maintenance Boot Mode" which gives you some special boot modes alongside a normal boot option.

Gizmoe said:
Not sure why the other poster thinks going into download mode is a dramatic scenario.
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Either you know something download does that I do not, we are not on
the same page or you're confusing download mode with recovery mode.
Download mode has no options on the phone for a hard reset. It's just
download mode. Recovery mode offers hard reset as well as factory reset.

natypes said:
Either you know something download does that I do not, we are not on
the same page or you're confusing download mode with recovery mode.
Download mode has no options on the phone for a hard reset. It's just
download mode. Recovery mode offers hard reset as well as factory reset.
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Getting into download mode is just a method. Never said there was any selectable options. I think you weren't understanding me. Anyways Samsung has built in a feature to hold power and volume down which will take you to a screen where you can do 5 different options. 1 is a factory reset.

S7 maybe fullbricked

Hi,
i update my Galaxy S7 today with the new DBT-Firmware. I follow a Tutorial in which you can update a rooted Phone with flashify it without loss any data. Also the TWRP works still great after this. I did this with the last Firmware few weeks ago and it works great.
Today it works great also, everything was perfect. Than a last step: I flash the the bootloader seperately in odin. i did this the last time too and it works well. but not at this time.
After Bootloader flash, the device stays in the first Screen with Samsung Logo, i cannot go to Download Mode or Recovery. I tried a USB-Jig, but it changes nothing. The only thing you can do now is, to make a Reset with Power+Volume Down. Than the screen goes black for a second and it shows the Samsung Logo Screen again.
bad thing is: I cant turn off the device!
i remove the SIM and the SD-Card, but no reaction.
Anybody an idea? The battery was half loaded, so maybe it takes a while, before it will shutdown itself.
Mhhh, that's a bad day, i fear. But iam an Idiot, it was the Bootloader-Flash at the end, before that everything was perfect.
Maybe anybody can help me, that were great.
And sorry for my bad english.
Thanks,
Jan

Holding power button for 30 seconds does not power it off?

*Detection* said:
Holding power button for 30 seconds does not power it off?
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No. Iam holding it about a Minute, a few times, nothing happends.
Iam still at the first screen with the logo.

There is a hacky method to remove the back and get to the battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1naej9BnfM
But it will no longer be waterproof
I can't think of any way to power off the phone if holding power does nothing
Have you tried resetting it with the USB Jig inserted?

*Detection* said:
There is a hacky method to remove the back and get to the battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1naej9BnfM
But it will no longer be waterproof
I can't think of any way to power off the phone if holding power does nothing
Have you tried resetting it with the USB Jig inserted?
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Yes, i tried that too. with and without I just can turn off this thing off.
thanks for the link, but i think before i remove the backcover, i better will bring it to repair first. i got an official samsung repair center in my town.
by the way: it was the bootloader from the latest official firmware (G930FXXU1BPH6, DBT-Version).
i cannot explain to myself, what happend i done all this a few weeks ago with the last firmware without any problems.

*Detection* said:
There is a hacky method to remove the back and get to the battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1naej9BnfM
But it will no longer be waterproof
I can't think of any way to power off the phone if holding power does nothing
Have you tried resetting it with the USB Jig inserted?
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Yes, i tried that too. with and without I just can turn off this thing off.
thanks for the link, but i think before i remove the backcover, i better will bring it to repair first. i got an official samsung repair center in my town.
by the way: it was the bootloader from the latest official firmware (G930FXXU1BPH6, DBT-Version).
i cannot explain to myself, what happend i done all this a few weeks ago with the last firmware without any problems.
i will now wait, until it shuts down itself, maybe that took a few hours.
if i can charge it, maybe i can than go into the downloadmode.

If you had 50% battery left, and it's just sitting on the Samsung logo, it might take days to run out
50% battery on idle with the phone booted into Android will last a day or two on its own, just on the logo is like ultra power saving mode

*Detection* said:
If you had 50% battery left, and it's just sitting on the Samsung logo, it might take days to run out
50% battery on idle with the phone booted into Android will last a day or two on its own, just on the logo is like ultra power saving mode
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ok, when it took days until it will go out, than theres only one solution left, i will bring it to repair than.

Reneval said:
ok, when it took days until it will go out, than theres only one solution left, i will bring it to repair than.
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Found this, try holding power and volume down & up together for safe mode (Might not work if it's stuck on the logo, but worth a try)
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Okay. This morning my S7 would not turn off, its not the edge, but basically the same phone.
You must hold down the power, the volume up and down all at the same time for about 15 seconds. (All 3 buttons).
It will go into safe mode. In the safe mode screen hit the volume button down a few times until it moves to restart.
Click the power button, as "enter" and the phone will restart.
It did a restart and I tried again to turn it off and this time, it did work. I will keep you all updated if I have any more issues.
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...-galaxy-s7-edge-my-screen-won-t-turn-off.html

*Detection* said:
Found this, try holding power and volume down & up together for safe mode (Might not work if it's stuck on the logo, but worth a try)
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Okay. This morning my S7 would not turn off, its not the edge, but basically the same phone.
You must hold down the power, the volume up and down all at the same time for about 15 seconds. (All 3 buttons).
It will go into safe mode. In the safe mode screen hit the volume button down a few times until it moves to restart.
Click the power button, as "enter" and the phone will restart.
It did a restart and I tried again to turn it off and this time, it did work. I will keep you all updated if I have any more issues.
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http://forums.androidcentral.com/as...-galaxy-s7-edge-my-screen-won-t-turn-off.html
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thanks, but no sucess.
when i hold the three buttons, it goes off after 3 secondes with a one second black screen, than the logo apperas again.
just like with power+volume down.

Reneval said:
thanks, but no sucess.
when i hold the three buttons, it goes off after 3 secondes with a one second black screen, than the logo apperas again.
just like with power+volume down.
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Does Smart Switch see it?
All this is unlikely due to where it is stuck, at the logo, you shouldn't have been able to kill download mode is the thing, that is part of the hardware, nothing to do with the ROM, you 'should' always be able to enter download mode if you hold Volume Down & Home & Power at boot, not sure why it's freezing at the logo before that point
With the S5 there was an unbrick image you flashed to a MicroSD card, put that in the phone, and that took you to download mode where you could recover the phone
See if there is the same thing for the S7, I'm not sure

ok, after the phone shut down itself, i was able to go to the download mode. but only on first try. when it boots normally, it stuck again on that logo an i must wait again until it goes off itself.
flash it than in download mode with latest firmware in odin with 4 parts. power from the usb was enough to stay it on.
now it seems ok, back on latest firmware.
what a hell of an evenig, need a beer right now

You can switch your phone off with the 3 key pressing and holding (vol+, vol-, power) but your phone needs to be connected to power otherwise it will reboot.
Sent from my SM-G930F using XDA-Developers mobile app

Reneval said:
ok, after the phone shut down itself, i was able to go to the download mode. but only on first try. when it boots normally, it stuck again on that logo an i must wait again until it goes off itself.
flash it than in download mode with latest firmware in odin with 4 parts. power from the usb was enough to stay it on.
now it seems ok, back on latest firmware.
what a hell of an evenig, need a beer right now
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That ran out of power quicker than I expected, good news it's fixed

*Detection* said:
That ran out of power quicker than I expected, good news it's fixed
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yes, iam happy now, seems to work fine.
i think it was because the new bootloader don't work with the twrp version that was installed.
on the twrp page there is a new version especially for this firmware. it was published yesterday and i didn't see it.
so i think, after flash the new bootloader over the old twrp it chrashed the whole system.

Reneval said:
yes, iam happy now, seems to work fine.
i think it was because the new bootloader don't work with the twrp version that was installed.
on the twrp page there is a new version especially for this firmware. it was published yesterday and i didn't see it.
so i think, after flash the new bootloader over the old twrp it chrashed the whole system.
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Well if you do it again, make sure your battery is low first in case you have to wait again
Any reason you needed to flash the bootloader over the one that was already there?

*Detection* said:
Well if you do it again, make sure your battery is low first in case you have to wait again
Any reason you needed to flash the bootloader over the one that was already there?
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yes, better i will do so in the future.
an no, there's no reason to replace the bootloader, i only did it to make the whole flash "complete".
a bad mistake, that brought me in sweating. i will learn from that experience.

I exactly have the same problem.
How'd you managed to power it off? just waiting?
'ich könnt kotzen'

nitramin said:
I exactly have the same problem.
How'd you managed to power it off? just waiting?
'ich könnt kotzen'
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I think he just waited for the battery to run out, but try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68456666&postcount=13

Was in the exact same situation.
BUT this post save my day ! =)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=68437021&postcount=3839
Hope it will be usefull for dumb people like me !

Samsung Galaxy S7 Bricked while charging !!! Red LED remains on !!!

I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:

Scrapperr said:
I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:
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Remove charger and let the phone battery die, might take a long time depending on how much it was charged
Try connecting the white MicroUSB > USB adapter that came with the phone to something power hungry to drain it quicker

Power off you device and then wait 10 seconds. After waiting press and hold the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time
After the phone vibrates, let go of the Power button, while still holding the other two buttons until Android System Recovery screen appears.
Using the "Volume Down" button, highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it.
After the cache partition is cleared, the Galaxy S7 will reboot automatically. This worked for me ans I hope this will help

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Power off you device and then wait 10 seconds. After waiting press and hold the Volume Up, Home, and Power buttons at the same time
After the phone vibrates, let go of the Power button, while still holding the other two buttons until Android System Recovery screen appears.
Using the "Volume Down" button, highlight "wipe cache partition" and press the Power button to select it.
After the cache partition is cleared, the Galaxy S7 will reboot automatically. This worked for me ans I hope this will help
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It doesn't work.I already tried it...my phone is somehow stuck with the red led on and it does not take any command...i tried every button combination that i know but nothing...

Scrapperr said:
I plugged my charger in my S7 and after ~30 min when i tried to use it,the screen won't turn on.The red LED is on but the phone is...dead.I tried every hard reset/restart possible but nothing happens...no safe mode,my pc doesn't detect it,it's not charging...nothing.The phone acts like it's dead but the red LED is on.... WTF ??? Any sugestions ??? :crying:
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Have you tried
power button and volume -
Keep press both button for 10 sec it must work

rasoulcarrera said:
Have you tried
power button and volume -
Keep press both button for 10 sec it must work
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I tried...

Scrapperr said:
I tried...
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Run the battery out, once the phone is off it might get out of whatever loop it is stuck in
Then connect charger and power on

Any background info? ROMs flashed? Shady apps newly installed? Rooted?

gerhard_wa said:
Any background info? ROMs flashed? Shady apps newly installed? Rooted?
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Stock everything,no shady apps...

*Detection* said:
Remove charger and let the phone battery die, might take a long time depending on how much it was charged
Try connecting the white MicroUSB > USB adapter that came with the phone to something power hungry to drain it quicker
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I did try to connect something to the usb adapter but the phone does not output power...

Scrapperr said:
I did try to connect something to the usb adapter but the phone does not output power...
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Might have a long wait then
RMA / Return under warranty

Maybe you're screen Is dead. Replace under warranty.
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takerhbk said:
Maybe you're screen Is dead. Replace under warranty.
Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk
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Red LED should not show when charger is not connected though

Press power button plus volume up and down hold for 5 to 10 sec it will restart ur phone same thing happen with on s6 but not on s7.

I once had to press vol up and down, power and home (that's all buttons) at the same time for ten seconds for the S7 to reboot as it was stuck and seemingly dead. No led on at the time though. But I have disabled the leds in the settings anyway.

UPDATE!
The battery discharged completely(red led was off),first i tried to put it in download mode and IT WORKED!!! But the phone wouldn't turn on because the battery was 0%.I charged it and now it works fine :| I hope this was something software related and not hardware and i hope this will never happen again.Thx for the help guys!

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Run the battery out, once the phone is off it might get out of whatever loop it is stuck in
Then connect charger and power on
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I hope this was the problem,because the phone now works after the battery discharged...thx for the help!

Scrapperr said:
I hope this was the problem,because the phone now works after the battery discharged...thx for the help!
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Great
Sounded like it just got stuck, and because you can't take the battery out you have to wait for discharge :good:

*Detection* said:
Great
Sounded like it just got stuck, and because you can't take the battery out you have to wait for discharge :good:
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Yup ?

Same problem
I have the same issue... Tried to charge my phone with 15% battery and after a few hours it was 8%. Tried to reboot, charge with the phone turned off but nothing was happening ( not charging, not booting up. tried buttons combinations as well ). The led is not showing up on mine because i disabled it from the settings so i'm not sure if it's charging or not. Took the phone to an authorized service on friday so next week i'll be getting a response from them. By the way, the phone is only one week old :crying:

Question [SOLVED] Going into recovery mode issue

Hi. I have a Galaxy A12 that Im trying to get into recovery mode so I can reset it. I cant remember the pattern. I have tried two methods but both have failed, each time, where you would normally see the Android person and it boot into recovery, it just beeps and boots normally.
I have tried putting a pin locked SIM into the phone, powering it off. Holding Vol Up and Power until you see the Samsung logo. Then letting go of Power and holding Vol Up. Doesnt work just get the beep.
I have also held Vol Down, held Power and restarted the phone then switched to the Vol Up key.
Both times I just get a beep and it boots into normal OS.
Anyone come across this and know how to get the A12 into recovery mode so I can factory reset it.
Thanks in advance.

Did you saw that video? Go to minute 2:30

Oneplus# said:
Did you saw that video? Go to minute 2:30
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Thank you very much. This worked. Amazing. Such a simple but effective solution.

ayazyounis said:
Thank you very much. This worked. Amazing. Such a simple but effective solution.
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Happy to hear that

Oneplus# said:
Did you saw that video? Go to minute 2:30
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WOW, just WOW, a week I have been trying to break into the phone. I should have started at XDA. Thank you
ayazyounis I thought I had watched every Youtube video on this one.​